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	<title>Cover to Cover</title>
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	<description>Reader's Advisory from the Vancouver Island Regional Library</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Flower School : Mastering The Art Of Floral Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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How is your flower garden doing?  Conditions have been great for my roses, daisies, and lilies, and I often cut some for the house.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a great artistic sense and my bouquets are a bit of a jumble.
I need to study Paula Pryke’s Flower School : Mastering The Art Of Floral Design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Clone Conspiracy and other Summer Reading for kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this is the time when the Library runs a Summer Reading Club for children, I thought I should read some of the books that have been borrowed, and presumably read, by our eager little beavers.  The subjects run the whole gamut so there might be something that would appeal to you or your child.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outdoor Kitchens : Ideas For Planning, Designing, And Entertaining</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Here is a book for next year.  Outdoor Kitchens : Ideas For Planning, Designing, And Entertaining by Joseph R. Provey (2008.  ANF 643.3 PRO) is a full-colour, glossy page book filled with photographs, diagrams, instructions, and suggestions for anyone contemplating living in their backyard.
Apparently, people today are bombarded with technology all their waking hours and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Mother’s Wedding Dress : The Meaning And Memory Of Clothes In Our Lives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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I just could not put down My Mother’s Wedding Dress : The Meaning And Memory Of Clothes In Our Lives by Justine Picardie (2006.  ANF 391.2019 PIC).
Picardie is a fashion journalist and this memoir is part fashion report and part sociological examination. 
She begins by talking about her mother’s wedding dress, a black French cocktail dress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prefabulous : The House Of Your Dreams, Delivered Fresh From The Factory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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A few years ago my husband and I had a new house built.  We looked into the possibility of a prefab but did not find a design we liked.  If the book Prefabulous : The House Of Your Dreams, Delivered Fresh From The Factory by Sheri Koones (2006.  ANF 643.2 KOO) had been available then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Kind Of Place : Travel Stories From A Woman Who’s Been Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/my-kind-of-place-travel-stories-from-a-woman-who%e2%80%99s-been-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Susan Orlean is a travel writer with a difference.  Her writings for the New Yorker magazine have delighted readers for over ten years, and now those of us who never even crack open the magazine can enjoy her observations in her book My Kind Of Place : Travel Stories From A Woman Who’s Been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Dessert First!</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/eat-dessert-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cookbooks]]></category>

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The Red Hat Society began in 1998 when Sue Ellen Cooper started giving her friends a red hat and a copy of “Warning”, a poem about a woman in purple clothing and a red hat.  The significance of this was to remind them that life is short and every day is a gift that needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Then And Now : Amazing Images Of Our Changing World</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/earth-then-and-now-amazing-images-of-our-changing-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Now and then pictures are always intriguing.  Earth Then And Now : Amazing Images Of Our Changing World by Fred Pearce (2007.  ANF 550 PEA) is a veritable feast of images.  Who doesn’t like to see and marvel at what the passage of time or the forces of man and nature can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pyramids And The Sphinx</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/the-pyramids-and-the-sphinx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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I think the fascination with the pyramids of Egypt and the pharaohs who had them built is a genetic thing.  Everyone I know has gone through the King Tut’s tomb phase, and I suspect that the following for Indiana Jones and his adventures stems from this same captivation.
The Pyramids And The Sphinx by Corinna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Town That Forgot How To Breathe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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The Town That Forgot How To Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey (2003.  FIC HAR) is an eerie story.  I chose it because it was set in Newfoundland and I have enjoyed many other stories set there.  This one was very different.
Bareneed is a small port town not far from Port de Grave. [...]]]></description>
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