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		<title>New mystery from White Plains author</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/11/new-mystery-from-white-plains-author/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Nackman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[K. J. Egan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Otto Penzler]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Mysterious Bookshop]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Where It Lies]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A White Plains writer and attorney has just come out with a mystery novel, &#8220;Where It Lies.&#8221;  If you are into fiction with a local slant (think golf , think  Westchester) and love contemporary-style mysteries, this sure sounds like a perfect summer read.

	Here is how his publisher, St Martin&#8217;s Publishing Group/Minotaur Books explains the story:

	&#8220;Single [...]<br/>
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		<title>Debate: Literature as voyeurism</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/10/debate-literature-as-voyeurism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi Weiner</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It killed me to have to let Ken have the last word in the debate started this past week on Crime and Punishment. To see that string, click here.

	But in the interest of some fresh opportunities to exercise our wit and toss around some more literary allusions and bad puns, I&#8217;m positing another subject for [...]<br/>
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		<title>“Anti-Soviet” Russian writer dies</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/10/anti-soviet-russian-writer-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Valenti</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This from the Associated Press:

	MOSCOW (AP) &#8212; Vasily Aksyonov, a Russian writer and one of the last dissidents to be exiled from the Soviet Union, died Monday. He was 76.

	Aksyonov, who suffered a stroke last year, died at a Moscow hospital, his widow Maya told Ekho Mosvky radio.

	Aksyonov wrote more than 20 novels during a [...]<br/>
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		<title>What’s your library worth?</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/10/whats-your-library-worth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Nackman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Westchester Library System]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[library use]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Whether you use the library once in a while or very often, that use has a value.  Librarians have now come up with way for you to calculate that figure in real dollars.

	The Westchester Library System, a cooperative of 38 public libraries in Westchester, has a fill-in chart to quickly help you determine the value [...]<br/>
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		<title>Woodstock tonight</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/09/woodstock-tonight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Nackman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Voracious Reader]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Woodstock]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Woodstock Revisted]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Come dressed as a &#8220;hippie&#8221; with tie-dyed shirts and worn, torn jeans.  And bring your Woodstock stories and memories.

	Tonight, The Voracious Reader in Larchmont is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Local author Catherine Hiller will be on. She is one of 50 Woodstock-ites who contributed their stories of the event of a generation in [...]<br/>
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		<title>New Rochelle and The Three Musketeers</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/08/new-rochelle-and-the-three-musketeers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Valenti</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Did you know that a piece of New Rochelle history (or maybe the city&#8217;s pre-history) is mentioned right there in the first sentence of The Three Musketeers?

	Here&#8217;s the sentence from the Alexandre Dumas novel, courtesy of the Web site QuotesandPoem.Com:

	&#8220;On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in [...]<br/>
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		<title>Debate: Crime and Punishment.</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/08/debate-crime-and-punishment/</link>
		<comments>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/08/debate-crime-and-punishment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Valenti</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crime and Punishment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dostoevsky]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nothing like some pleasant summer reading, huh?

	I glanced at Crime and Punishment recently, but I thought it was really the wrong time to start it. Better to leave Russian literature for a long, cold winter. I was also reading Bangkok 8, the murder mystery/thriller by John Burdett, and I saw myself taking that one to [...]<br/>
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		<title>New City Library announces vacation amnesty</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/08/new-city-library-announces-vacation-amnesty/</link>
		<comments>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/08/new-city-library-announces-vacation-amnesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randi Weiner</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lending Library]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[New City Library]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[amnesty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[libraries]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[library cards]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clarkstown]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is just in from the New City Library:

	Want to avoid fines when taking library materials on your vacation? At the New City Library, we try to accommodate our Clarkstown cardholders and their travel plans. Vacation loans are good for a maximum of three months and are easy to request at the Circulation desk. These [...]<br/>
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		<title>Latino mysteries reading in Sleepy Hollow</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/07/latino-mysteries-reading-in-sleepy-hollow/</link>
		<comments>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/07/latino-mysteries-reading-in-sleepy-hollow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Valenti</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Hudson Valley Writers' Center]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Latino writers]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One guy wrote &#8220;The Last Tortilla &#038; Other Stories.&#8221; Another has a photo of a plastic Jesus action figure on his home page. The third bills himself as a &#8220;purveyor of fine lies, prevarications and half-truths for every occassion.

	And they&#8217;re all reading from the anthology Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery this Sunday in [...]<br/>
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		<title>Holy smokes! Dan Brown’s new book cover!</title>
		<link>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/07/holy-smokes-dan-browns-new-book-cover/</link>
		<comments>http://books.lohudblogs.com/2009/07/07/holy-smokes-dan-browns-new-book-cover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Valenti</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cover art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dan Brown]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Because, you know, for months now, I&#8217;ve been wandering around in dire suspense, wondering: What will the cover of Dan Brown&#8217;s new book look like?

	Well, now we know.

	Take a look:

	

	Intriguing, no?

	As you can see, the newest book from the author of The Da Vinci Code is called The Lost Symbol. It&#8217;s even got it&#8217;s own [...]<br/>
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