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	<title>Old Musty Books &#187; Review</title>
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	<description>A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~Cicero</description>
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		<title>Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi: The Monster of Florence</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/07/19/douglas-preston-and-mario-spezi-the-monster-of-florence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Laudiero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Monster of Florence is a true story about a series of murders that took place in Florence and the subsequent investigation process over several decades. At first glance, this book appears to be a gruesome tale of ritual murders of fourteen couples, including the mutilation of the female victim.  Upon completion, its more about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading for Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/07/02/summer-reading-for-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/07/02/summer-reading-for-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Laudiero</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Are you there]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eragon and Eldest  by Christopher Pauloni]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Its Me Margaret by Judy Blume]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  Its summer time and the last thing most kids want to do is sit around and read.  Did you know, though, that summer reading programs were originally started in the 1890s to encourage children to develop a habit of reading on a regular basis?  According to the American Library Association, numerous studies have shown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Heaphey: Legerdemain</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/06/17/james-heaphey-legerdemain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/06/17/james-heaphey-legerdemain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Laudiero</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[and what the French Never Knew Legerdemain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cold War Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[French decolonization movement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[James Heaphey]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Legerdemain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Bomb]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The President's Secret Plan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The President&#8217;s Secret Plan, The Bomb, and what the French Never Knew&#8230;Legerdemain is a real life story of a former US Air Force undercover operative in the 1950s. James Heaphey gives us first hand insight into the behind-the-scenes treachery and atrocities that accompany geopolitical operations.  The author does not just give us insight into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Burke:  A Life Less Convenient</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/05/29/jennifer-burke-a-life-less-convenient/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/05/29/jennifer-burke-a-life-less-convenient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 16:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Laudiero</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[A Life Less Convenient]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How to understand]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Burke]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Letters to My Ex]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lupus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Terminal Illness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had the pleasure of reading A Life Less Convenient by Jennifer Burke.  I have never read a book that lays out the struggles of an illness as insightful as A Life Less Convenient (ALLC) does. Jennifer Burke deserves a great deal of accolades for putting together this magnificent journey into the love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emmett James: Admit One</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/05/19/emmett-james-admit-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/05/19/emmett-james-admit-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Laudiero</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I&#8217;ve read a memoir.  Most memoirs that I&#8217;ve read in the past are the life and times of various authors through history.  Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber, Maya Angelou, to name a few. The two years I spent reading memoirs was spent studying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabih Alameddine: The Hakawati</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/05/12/rabih-alameddine-the-hakawati/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/05/12/rabih-alameddine-the-hakawati/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Laudiero</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[The Hakawati]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The Hakawati&#8217; is a plethora of tales of heroism, magic, death, victory, love, sex, redemption and lies, and just about everything else you can imagine woven into one story about one guy and his family roots.  The main character travels back to his childhood home in Beirut to stand watch at his father&#8217;s death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jhumpa Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/05/01/jhumpa-lahiri-unaccustomed-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/05/01/jhumpa-lahiri-unaccustomed-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OMB Staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.  This is a compilation of eight short stories with the common thread being nationality - expatriate Bengali parents and Americanized children were the main character traits.  So much of each story delves into the difficult between parents from another country and their americanized children. 
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		<title>Isabel Fonseca: Attachment</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/04/21/isabel-fonseca-attachment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/04/21/isabel-fonseca-attachment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OMB Staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Attachment is Isabel Fonseca&#8217;s fiction debut.  This is a book about a woman who is, on the surface, pretty comfortable with her life, as a writer living on a remote island with her husband.  That is, until she finds a risque letter to her husband. This initiates a whole string of emails between the woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick McGrath:  Trauma</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/04/21/patrick-mcgrath-trauma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/04/21/patrick-mcgrath-trauma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OMB Staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Trauma is Patrick McGrath&#8217;s latest novel about a New York psychiatrist whose specialty is helping Vietnam Vets deal with, what is now known as, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. A common thread emerges pretty quickly that seems to effect every character - whether they are suffering from the main psychological diagnosis or not.  The story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein: The Truth (I&#8217;m a girl, I&#8217;m smart and I know everything)</title>
		<link>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/04/14/dr-barbara-becker-holstein-the-truth-im-a-girl-im-smart-and-i-know-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oldmustybooks.com/2008/04/14/dr-barbara-becker-holstein-the-truth-im-a-girl-im-smart-and-i-know-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OMB Staff</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[The Truth (I'm a girl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had an opportunity to read The Truth (I&#8217;m a girl, I&#8217;m smart and I know everything) by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein.  This is a journal of a 10 year old girl, her parents fight about silly things, and she&#8217;s in love with a boy in her class.  We go through a year [...]]]></description>
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