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Over the holidays I was having a look at the special features on the DVD of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” and saw Rupert Grint sporting a t-shirt with this Keep Calm slogan and I kind of loved it. It actually dates back to the British [...]

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Sue Grafton is nearing the end of the alphabet with “U Is For Undertow,” her latest Kinsey Millhorne mystery. Grafton, who started the series about a California sleuth in 1982 with “A Is For Alibi and plans to end it with “Z Is For Zero,” has sustained the brilliance with her latest edition that deals [...]

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Katie Couric may not be my first choice to read the evening news each night but the CBS newscaster is doing a nice online interview show, @katiecouric. Good guests, engaging conversation, lots of time, no commerical interruptions. This week’s guest is Mitch Albom, whose new book “Have A Little Faith” has been No. 1 for [...]

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Stephen King’s big, big, big (1,074 pages) new book “Under The Dome” hits stores today. Are you ready to tackle it? King spent 33 years on the opus, getting stuck on two previous tries. The plot: Residents of a Maine town are cut off from the world by an invisible force field. Reviews have been [...]

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I’ve never quite understood the fascination people have with YouTube videos of random people’s cats doing weird or adorable little antics. The animated series of, ‘Simon’s Cat,’ however, doesn’t involve real people (or cats) so I like it much better. As do many a viewer, it seems. These videos get upwards of [...]

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Symbolism. You can’t tell a book by its cover… but here it is anyway. You can look inside on Sept. 15.

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By Sara Cedar Miller
Abrams Books
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What would New York City be without Central Park? It would be bigger, surely. There would be 843 more acres available to support more iron and more steel, more brick and mortar, more cement and concrete, and most certainly, more stress and anxiety. Happily, the Park exists today [...]

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