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Our Unyielding Obsession with Jennifer Aniston

if you've been under a rock for the last couple of days I am here to inform you that we can all calm down now because Jennifer Aniston has finally gotten engaged.  if you haven't been under a rock, you have been inundated with hideously titled articles that make me want to cringe.  CNN did [...]

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Mobile devices star in prime time at home

His kids might commandeer the TV before bedtime, but online game designer John Comes still gets his prime-time fix. Just on a smaller screen. Using his iPad, he can watch content from traditional TV and cable channels such as ABC, TBS and HBO, as well as newer options such as Hulu and Netflix. As for [...]

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Review: ‘Lover Reborn’ by J.R. Ward

By Jessie Potts, USA TODAY Genre: Urban fantasy J.R. Ward‘s urban fantasy romance series is so popular I don’t think there’s a reader today who hasn’t at least heard of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. the series, which originally started as a paranormal romance series, has evolved into something so huge it’s become an entity unto [...]

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April 1st Disappearance of Butterfinger® Bars Linked to 2012 Prophecy, Fans Urged to Save the World via Online Game and BARmageddon Challenge at Facebook.com/Butterfinger

MANHATTAN, Kan., Apr 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –In one weekend alone, Kansas made national headlines with three unusual occurrences: first, the state’s top college basketball team made it to the national championship, second, one lucky local bought a winning lottery ticket for a world-record jackpot, and third, a mysterious crop circle appeared in Kansas as [...]

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‘The Dressmaker’ leads weekend book picks

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include a timely novel about the Titanic and actor Frank Langella’s gossipy memoir. The DressmakerBy Kate Alcott; Doubleday, 306 pp., $24.95; fiction Dozens of non-fiction books are being published to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic. but fiction fans won’t want to [...]

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Review: ‘Seattle Cinderella’ by Gail Sattler

By Serena Chase, USA TODAY Genre: Inspirational romance In her four-in-one novella collection, Seattle Cinderella, author Gail Sattler takes a familiar fairy tale and gives it a quirky modern twist that involves, among other things, a pretty blond girl running a muffler shop in Seattle. The sitch: When Cindy’s father died he left her half-interest [...]

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‘What It Was’ leads the weekend book picks

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include an entertaining (and well-priced) crime novel by George Pelecanos, two great kids’ books for Black History Month, and a non-fiction title that will interest fans of Slumdog Millionaire. What it Was | George Pelecanos; Reagan Arthur/Back Bay, 272 pp., $9.99 paperback original; [...]

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Thinking Libraries: It’s Peachy in November @ your Library!

New Books Upstairs @ the library! House of Secrets by Tracie Peterson Crimson Warning byTasha Alexander Wedding Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini Prince of Ravenscar by Catherine Coulter Christmas Treasures by Thomas Kinkade Beauty and the Werewolfby Mercedes Lackey To have and To Hold by Tracie Petersen Coming Events @ the Library! Library Hours! Monday – [...]

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