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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>The Religious Thriller</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving at #28 on the 3/21 Extended NYT Fiction best seller list is Heresy by S.J. Parris, a pseudonym for Stephanie Merritt. It&#8217;s her first outing under this name, her first time writing an historical thriller, and her first time on the best seller list. The Washington Post recently pegged The Heresy as part of a subgenre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Do the Monster Mash</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Rawlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today asks the burning question of the hour  &#8211; with all the literary mashups already published and more on the way, will readers lose interest?
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, released last year from small publisher Quirk Books seemed, pardon the expression, like a quirk, but it now has over a million copies in print. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before CSI</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current edition of my new favorite column, Newsweek&#8217;s &#8220;We Read It [So You Don't Have To]&#8221; doesn&#8217;t live up to its name. It features The Poisoner&#8217;s Handbook and, rather than serving as a substitute for the book, it makes me want to get my hands on it as soon as possible.
In most libraries, that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s with the Blood Sucking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Rawlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are vampires so popular right now and what does that say about our culture?
NPR&#8217;s Margot Adler set off to answer these questions. As research, she read 75 currently-popular vampire titles (full list, with annotations, on the NPR site, where you can also listen to the full story, which was on All Things Considered on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Literate Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Rawlinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, with the highest concentration of large book publishing houses, ranks way down at #29 on the just-released list of the most literate U.S. cities, below Lexington-Fayette, KY (#15) and New Orleans (#17).
This is the fifth year of the study. Seattle has been #1 for three of those years. It lost out to Minneapolis [...]]]></description>
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