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Still wild about Harry

If only there was a spell to fight the "dark art" of sleep deprivation. Hundreds of Harry Potter fans of all ages - some costumed - waited late into the night Friday at Lawrence bookstores for the midnight release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," J.K. Rowling's latest novel about the orphaned wizard. Many readers were expected to dive into the novel immediately upon purchase and keep reading until dawn.

Review Lawrence Block’s ‘Hit and Run’ turns tables on killer
By Bruce DeSilva - Associated Press Writer
June 29, 2008
John Keller, professional hit man, is on his way to Des Moines to take a life — one last job before retiring to spend more time with his stamp collection. Keller is the consummate pro. He’s killed hundreds of times, yet the police don’t even know his name. But you know how it is with that final job. Something is bound to go wrong. Keller’s seen enough TV crime dramas to know it, too. He even jokes about it, but you can tell the thought has him on edge.
Layover rant
Air travel fuels anger and creative inspiration
By Scott Timberg - Los Angeles Times
June 29, 2008
Jonathan Miles has been best known to readers as a Men’s Journal writer who also serves as the cocktails columnist for The New York Times. Amid all that drinking and macho journeying, Miles had been working for at least six years on a novel, “Dear American Airlines,” which came out with some acclaim this month.
Transformation
By Stephanie Barrows
June 29, 2008
Poet’s Showcase: Transformation by Stephanie Barrows.
Best-sellers
The New York Times
June 29, 2008
A listing of this week's best-selling fiction and non-fiction literature.
Campy ‘Camp’
Book proves that campers may grow up, but they are never out of the woods
By Hank Stuever - The Washington Post
June 22, 2008
Having thoroughly plumbed the joys and pains of the suburban Jewish coming-of-age scene of the 1970s and ’80s (“Bar Mitzvah Disco”), the people at the so-called Academy of the Recent Past have turned their curatorial eyes to a book project so heartbreakingly rendered that it almost hurts to look too closely at the results.
Best-sellers
The New York Times
June 22, 2008
A list of this week's top-selling nonfiction and fiction literature.
Review: Father and son bond over classic cinema in ‘The Film Club’
By Daniel Bubbeo - Newsday
June 22, 2008
A few pages into “The Film Club” (Twelve, $21.99), the smart, new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM’s squeaky-clean “Andy Hardy” movies while growing up, they left little impression on him.
Summer tales: Lawrence experts recommend vacation reads for kids
J-W Staff Reports
June 22, 2008
The Journal-World asked two book experts at the Lawrence Public Library to give their recommended list for children and teens for the time until school starts again. Here are their suggestions, along with their comments.
Art in Progress
By Juliet Dyer
June 22, 2008
Poet’s Showcase: Art in Progress by Juliet Dyer.
Lawrence pastor retells Noah’s tale
By Sarah Henning
June 21, 2008
The story of Noah and his ark is usually characterized as one of two things: a children’s tale with lions and tigers and bears — oh my! — or an adult tale of what happens when God becomes angry with society.
New books help parents teach children about elections, politics
By Leanne Italie - Associated Press Writer
June 15, 2008
Parents in search of teachable election-year moments with their kids as the presidential race sizzles in schools and around dinner tables need only depend on a duck, some dogs or a girl named Grace.
Reminiscing with ‘Pie in the Sky’
Lawrence man learns from Pizza Hut experience
By Mark Fagan
June 15, 2008
Richard Hassur knows what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, to take chances and succeed in a field strewn with lost dreams and failed ventures. But even a guy who would go on to own 150 Pizza Huts — including the first one ever franchised for the global chain of restaurants, a chain that today accounts for some $10 billion in annual sales — couldn’t convince a particular Pizza Hut store manager to stay with the company.
Town & Country book features stylish dogs
June 15, 2008
Socially prominent humans have been known to hunt for their own photos when the latest issue of Town & Country magazine lands in their mailboxes. The next best thing? Finding photos of their dogs.
Best-sellers
The New York Times
June 15, 2008
A listing of this week's best-selling fiction and non-fiction literature.
Review: Letts goes back to Wal-Mart for ‘Made in the U.S.A.’
By M.L. Johnson - Associated Press Writer
June 15, 2008
Billie Letts returns to Wal-Mart in the opening scenes of her fourth novel, “Made in the U.S.A.” (Grand Central Publishing, $24.99), which features a shoplifting gymnastics star and her younger brother.

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