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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>RAISING HAPPINESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rising on Amazon; now at #24 is a new parenting book, Raising Happiness.
The book&#8217;s author, Christine Carter, writes the blog &#8220;Half Full: Science for Raising Happy Kids.&#8221;
The book wasn&#8217;t reviewed prepub (check to see if you&#8217;ve ordered it; several libraries we checked hadn&#8217;t yet). It&#8217;s covered in these consumer magazines:

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		<title>Even Worse Than the Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems like another sign of the times; How to Survive the End of the World is at #7 on Amazon, after 7 days in the Top 100.
The book is by John Wesley Rawles, whose first novel, Patriots, which came out in April, was called a survivalist manifesto by the Daily Beast. It was in the top 100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Women Want?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In mid-September, Marcus Buckingham, business guru and co-author of several bestsellers, including First, Break All the Rules and Discover Your Strengths, published an article in the Huffington Post, called What&#8217;s Happening To Women&#8217;s Happiness?
In it, Buckingham examined the results of the General Social Survey conducted annually since 1972 by professors at Wharton. It shows that women&#8217;s level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW NOT TO ACT OLD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Rawlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, we were treated to a scary book titled How Not to Look Old. After years of being told we could be &#8220;fabulous at any age,&#8221; this book dared to say that looking younger is necessary for &#8220;personal and financial survival&#8230;people who are better-looking, younger, and slimmer are more likely to get a job and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Teen Edition of THE SECRET</title>
		<link>http://www.earlyword.com/2009/07/23/new-teen-edition-of-the-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall, there will be a teen twist on Rhonda Byrne&#8217;s blockbuster self-help phenom, The Secret, which has sold millions of copies. The new book, The Secret to Teen Power, will be written by Paul Harrington, producer of The Secret DVD, with a bullish first printing of 500,000 copies. The new book will show &#8220;how teens [...]]]></description>
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