New name for AMP's mother organization - Saipan Tribune
The Arizona Memorial Museum Association made its own history today as the 31-year-old non-profit organization officially changed its name to Pacific History Parks. PHP is marking the launch of its new name and look with a special bestsellers book sale and giveaway of commemorative historic

Elmira man, in second book, shares lessons learned - Star-Gazette
Elmira insurance agency head Peter Wallin has written his second book in four years -- but, surprisingly, neither of them is about the ins and outs of the insurance industry. Wallin's first book, "In Pursuit of Business," is a common sense approach

Photographers invited for Blue Book contest - Statesman Journal
Oregon's amateur photographers are invited to submit photographs for the front and back covers of the Oregon Blue Book, the state's official fact book, which observes its 100th anniversary in 2011. The State Archives, which publishes the Oregon Blue

Book review: 'The Invisible Bridge' by Julie Orringer - Los Angeles Times
into the summer holidays — one in which you can lose yourself without the guilty suspicion that you're slumming — then Julie Orringer's "The Invisible The Invisible Bridge," by contrast, is in every admirable sense an "ambitious

Book Review: The Beauty of Friendship - Gather.com
Sewing a Friendship starts with a picture of each of the characters in the book and character profile of each, answering the questions of birth date, age, family, eye color, hair color, favorite food, favorite color, and specialty. For the target age

June book sales - Examiner
Who doesn’t like a great book sale where you can find priceless treasures for cheap? Starting as low as a quarter, could you really go wrong. So grab a pen and paper to jot down the details and your coin purse (for splurging of course) and go out

LSU course about endurance training to run a marathon - The Daily Advertiser
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — This LSU physiology class isn't just book learning. Students in Laura Stewart's Kinesiology 4501 also learn, mile by mile, how endurance training changes the body's ability to use oxygen. Her students, in T-shirts reading "LSU Marathoners — We Run This Town," have become

Tintin lawyers denounce 'book burning' trial over Congo comic - Big Hollywood
Lawyers for the publishers of the controversial "Tintin in the Congo" on Monday compared a legal attempt to ban the comic book, for racism, to book burning. "I cannot accept racism but I consider it equally lamentable that we burn books. To ban books is to burn them," Alain Berenboom, lawyer for

Events to observe Memorial Day - Everett Herald
Lynnwood: VFW Post No. 1040 Memorial Day Celebration, 11 a.m., Lynnwood Veterans Park, 19300 44th Ave. W. Book discussion, “The Things They Carried,” 2 p.m. Vietnam veterans from VFW Post No. 1040 share war experiences. Arlington: American Legion

Sarah Palin is rightfully agrieved about invasion of - Washington Post
I’m with Sarah Palin on this one. The Palins’ new neighbor, it turns out, is author Joe McGinniss . Coincidence? I think not. McGinniss wrote an unflattering profile of Palin for Portfolio magazine last year, and he’s now writing a book about