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Bulletin Board
Siouxland Libraries will hold a book discussion at noon Thursday of this year’s One Book South Dakota selection, What Is the What by Dave Eggers. It will be held in a conference room at the main branch.
Blog Headlines of the Week
My God, it’s Full of Books (Familiarity with Arthur C. Clarke’s […]
Again, no one should be surprised that “very intoxicated” appears in the next paragraph of this story: “A [Florida] man was arrested Friday after deputies said he called 911 multiple times to complain his mother took his beer away.”
Also in Florida, the family of a 13-year-old home-schooled girl has filed an age discrimination complaint […]
Although religion seems to permeate life in America, it isn’t often someone tries to quantify how good or bad we may be. County Sin Rankings takes a somewhat waggish approach to doing so.
It relates seven factors to the seven deadly sins to come up with a score. Here’s the sins and correlative factor:
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Each war generates its own collection of memoirs, novels and histories. Often, the best come after the conclusion of the war, thanks to the perspective of time. With combat in Afghanistan continuing, we probably have yet to see that war’s canon. Among contemporary accounts, though, Sebastian Junger’s War certainly is laudable,
As a correspondent for […]
This month’s list is a little skewed. That’s because I came across most of the books in May but, as things worked out, they were on sale or available now from the library or publicity person. So I’ve already read a couple on them. That doesn’t negate the lust that existed though.
Hellhound on His […]
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