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	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Best of the Bible</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/09/best-of-the-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cliff Richard - once labelled at Britain&#8217;s answer to Elvis in the 1950s - lists his favourite Bible stories in The Times. I suppose I like Jonah and the Whale. Imagine being stuck in a whale&#8217;s stomach for a few days? That would learn yer for disobeying the Lord and certainly an innovative punishment. Last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Omega Minor wins major award</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/08/omega-minor-wins-major-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Belgian authors don&#8217;t get an awful lot of press on the world stage. Paul Verhaeghen is changing that. A few hours ago, he won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel Omega Minor. He also translated the book.
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize celebrates an exceptional work of fiction by a living author which has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Chair</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/08/dangerous-chair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 20:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Why dangerous? If I sat in a chair that put so many books at my finger (and toe) tips, I might never get up again&#8230; This &#8216;Bibliochaise&#8217; was designed by nobody&#38;co. They also do a great bookshelf, &#8216;Piola&#8217;:

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		<title>Book burning</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/08/book-burning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a new feature on AbeBooks to mark the 75th anniversary of the Nazi book burnings on 10 May 1933. We&#8217;re not celebrating this anniversary, we&#8217;re simply remembering that it happened and examining its impact. Aside from revealing some of the books and authors who were banned and burnt by the Nazis, we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inappropriate punctuation T-shirts</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/08/literarily-inappropriate-t-shirts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/08/literarily-inappropriate-t-shirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>slaming</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For when your working the adult fiction section&#8230; 

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		<title>Bookish things</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/07/bookish-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Several things catch my eye this morning&#8230;.
The AP reports how a children&#8217;s book about a two-dad penguin family is still making conservatives very angry in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee etc. Not even worth a sarcastic comment&#8230;.
Nasty body-builder picture book showcased by The Independent. Yuck - check out the slide show for one particuarly horrid shot.
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		<title>James Bond quiz</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/07/james-bond-quiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Blimey, Bonds are everywhere. Michael Bond, still around at 82, wrote Paddington Bear but The Guardian has a James Bond quiz to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming&#8217;s birth.
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		<title>Paddington Bear at 50</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/07/paddington-bear-at-50/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/07/paddington-bear-at-50/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times has a feature on Paddington Bear, who is 50 years old. The Paddington Bear TV series played a small role in my childhood. The five-minute shows would be on just before the six o&#8217;clock news on BBC1 just as the children&#8217;s TV programs were wrapping up for the evening. The voice of Michael [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devil May Care &#8216;Bentley&#8217; edition</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/06/devil-may-care-bentley-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/06/devil-may-care-bentley-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 23:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Davies</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Collectors of &#8216;designer&#8217; books might be interested in a special edition of the new 007 book, Devil May Care written by Sebastian Faulks, that will be published by Penguin and the luxury car firm Bentley.
Published on May 28, each Bentley edition of Devil May Care will cost £750 and only 300 copies have been printed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Walters&#8217; rockstar book tour</title>
		<link>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/06/barbara-walters-rockstar-book-tour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/06/barbara-walters-rockstar-book-tour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>slaming</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have dreams of a personal jet whisking you from city to city on a whirl-wind book tour?  Barbara Walters is living the dream but she’s paying for it out of her own pocket.  
Walters&#8217; new memoir is called Audition
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