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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Sound, Hound the Hound?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever a new picture book by Mo Willems is published, I can’t wait to get my hands on it.  Why?  Because I know I will love it!  Willems is the author of over thirty picture books – many of which he also illustrated.   He is perhaps best known for his hugely successful &#8220;Knuffle Bunny&#8221; series [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=1045&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loving Frank by Nancy Horan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Here is the story of Mama Borthwick Cheney, the woman who had a love affair with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright at the beginning of his career in the 1900s. Blending fact and fiction, the author spent years researching Mama’s life to portray her beyond the scandalous newspaper stories of the time. They fell [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=1026&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book Thief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   If you’re over the age of 14, you might not have heard of  The Book Thief. It’s been classed as “young adult” in both libraries and bookstores, which is a shame, as it is a beautifully written book that is as compelling to adults as it is to children.  A simple plot summary – set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=1018&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sandman Slim</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommending this book is kind of like recommending anchovies on a pizza; I know some people will love it, and others, not so much. However, for those with the taste for it, this book will satisfy. Truly satisfy. This book tells the story of a man who fought his way out of hell in order [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Shadows</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/out-of-shadows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, just after the war for independence. A young English boy, Robert Jacklin, struggles to adjust to life in a new school, in a new country on a new continent.  Jason Wallace’s powerful debut novel raises complex questions about idealism, bullying, race and the need to belong. Wallace skillfully juxtaposes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=993&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/being-with-dying-cultivating-compassion-and-fearlessness-in-the-presence-of-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We go through a lot to educate and train ourselves for a vocation; most of us devote energy to caring for our relationships. So now please ask yourself what you are doing to prepare for the possibility of a sane and gentle death. This quote is near the end of the first chapter of Being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=987&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Good As Gold</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/as-good-as-gold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virl Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Good As Gold: 1 woman 9 Sports 10 countries and a 2-year Quest to Make the Summer Olympics follows professional triathlete and journalist Kathryn Bertine as she attempts to make an Olympic team in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In 2006 Kathryn Bertine was at a professional and personal low point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=980&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Great World Spin</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/let-the-great-world-spin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve requested this book by Colum McCann a couple of times over the last year and have not been able to get to it for one reason or the other. Finally, it appeared again on my pile of summer reading and am I glad it did – this is a wonderful book and at the top of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=974&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brutal Telling</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/brutal-telling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virl Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Need a good read for the summer days? Why not pick up a mystery? A library customer introduced me to Canadian author Louise Penny several months ago and I have now enjoyed three of the five titles starring Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec. All are set in the delightful small Quebec village [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=969&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lit: a Memoir</title>
		<link>http://virl.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/lit-a-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lit: a Memoir by Mary Karr is not just another “bad girl gone good” memoir. True, it chronicles the author’s descent into alcoholism and near-suicide, her hard-won recovery and reluctant discovery of a surprising faith. The difference is the unflinching honesty, clear-eyed dark sense of humour and strong descriptive language that leaves the reader feeling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=virl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=807182&amp;post=963&amp;subd=virl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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