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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>Double Life of a Medical Pioneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says Terry Gross of NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air, &#8220;Chances are, you&#8217;ve never heard of William Stewart Halsted, but if you&#8217;ve ever had a surgical procedure of any kind, you could say he&#8217;s affected your life&#8230;no one did more to modernize medical surgery.&#8221;
He was also a cocaine and morphine addict.
Gerald Imber, who has written a book about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Alert: IMMORTAL LIFE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essential question when deciding whether to buy more copies of a suddenly-successful book is, &#8220;How long will the interest last?&#8221;
In the case of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, all signs indicate that interest is not going to fade soon.
The book tells the sad and fascinating story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMMORTAL LIFE at #10 on Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Skloot became obsessed with a story of Henrietta Lacks, a woman who contracted cancer in 1951; it was so virulant that it killed her within the year. She was just 31.
Amazingly, however, her cancer cells went on to have a life of their own. A medical researcher had been trying to find cells that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groovy, Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Rawlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Science section calls Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle, &#8220;an exquisite picture guide to the universe,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Actually &#8216;exquisite&#8217; does not really do justice to the aesthetic and literary merits of the book&#8230;&#8221;
Online, the NYT offers a slide show of some of the book&#8217;s amazing images.
The book is owned by most large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHAT ON EARTH&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the author appeared on NPR&#8217;s Talk of the Nation yesterday, What on Earth Evolved? rose to #134 on Amazon; few libraries show it on their catalogs.
The book celebrates the 150th anniversary of Darwin&#8217;s On the Origin of Species by ranking the top 100 species, in terms of their impact on evolution, human history and the [...]]]></description>
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