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History offered on the market at the Biloxi Visitors Center

The Biloxi Visitors Center has gained acclaim for its collection of multi-media exhibits, but the center's gift shop is also seeing brisk sales...
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Syrian Poet Adonis: Snapshot of a distinguished Nobel contender

Considering that Sweden has hosted the Nobel Prize Awards for more than a century and until Thursday had not presented one of its own authors with...
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The Gloucester Massachusetts fishermen’s memorial and record book

George H. Proctor’s memorial and record book is a tribute to over 1200 fishermen who did not return to the port of Gloucester, Massachusetts,...
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A Fitz-James O’Brien Christmas with all the horror of demonic manikins

The Wondersmith is a perfect story for those who dread the annual re-release of A Christmas Carol. Fitz-James O’Brien applies his darkly...
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Linda McLean shares the magic of one inner city neighborhood

Open the pages of Linda Mcleans The Heidelberg Project: A Street of Dreams, Celebrating Humanity through Universal Harmony and you get a clear...
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Six offbeat ebooks about horses for your winter reading list

Horses have been known to humans for thousands of years according to documented history. At first wild and mystical, they were tamed and used as...
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Henry Rider Haggard civil servant, literary icon and illicit lover

Henry Rider Haggard was born in Norfolk, England, in 1856. He is remembered as an unassuming, somewhat dull British civil servant who projected his...
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The vertical plane a hoax, paranormal experience or study in physics

The vertical plane explores a paranormal experience in the town of Dodleston, England. After its publication in 1989, the book was dismissed as a...
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Cold Comfort Farm still warms a winter evening

Cold Comfort Farm was Stella Gibbons’ first and most endearing novel. Published in 1932, the story still distracts readers from winter...
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Author Pat Conroy Announces 2010 National Book Awards

As he stood in the childhood home of one great American author––Flannery O’Connor–– another great American author,...
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