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	<itunes:summary>EarlyWord is a Blog and Web site on a mission - to give libraries the earliest information possible on the books their customers will be looking for, so they can stay ahead of demand. By giving readers what they want, when they want it, we believe libraries can increase their circulation and their support.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Dick Francis Dies at 89</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Francis, a successful jockey who had an even more successful career as a writer, producing over 40 books, died at his home on Grand Cayman island on Sunday.
According to the The Guardian, Francis had an unusual arrangement with his British publisher; as long as he wrote a book a year, all of his books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Parker Novels in the Vault</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Rawlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we noted yesterday, Robert Parker, whose recent death is being widely mourned by the reading community, has several more books coming. In addition to the two scheduled for release this year, his agent tells Entertainment Weekly that &#8220;a couple more&#8221; are in the pipeline and he was &#8220;30-40 pages into&#8221; a new Spenser novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Spenser</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Rawlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I vividly remember Robert Parker from hearing him speak at an ALA. Very likely, it was an ALA held in Boston, a city I know more through his books than from personal experience. At that event, Parker made gentle but uproarious fun of a bit of library pomposity that went on before he spoke; he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Esther Hautzig</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Von Drasek</dc:creator>
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Esther Hautzig meant a lot to me. Her book, The Endless Steppe, a survival story about a family exiled to Siberia during WW II, was one that I read over and over again as a child. I must have borrowed it from the synagogue library, a small room where they trusted you to take and return books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norma Fox Mazer Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Sad news arrives at the beginning of Teen Read week &#8212; one of Norma Fox Mazer&#8217;s colleagues, on her Web site Jacket Knack reports that Mazer died over the weekend after a battle with brain cancer (via Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind).
On her own site, Mazer wrote about how she devloped a love [...]]]></description>
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