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Still wild about Harry

If only there was a spell to fight the "dark art" of sleep deprivation. Hundreds of Harry Potter fans of all ages - some costumed - waited late into the night Friday at Lawrence bookstores for the midnight release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," J.K. Rowling's latest novel about the orphaned wizard. Many readers were expected to dive into the novel immediately upon purchase and keep reading until dawn.

‘Stalker’ a fresh tale
By Oline H. Cogdill - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
September 7, 2008
Jack Carpenter saves kids. When he was a detective with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, his specialty was finding missing kids — and he never failed. As a private detective, he’s had the same success, but suspenseful “The Night Stalker” (Ballantine Books. $25) brings him his strangest case.
Best-sellers
The New York Times
September 7, 2008
A listing of this week's top-selling nonfiction and fiction literature.
Poet’s Showcase
September 7, 2008
“Kansas Memories” by Gordon Longabach
‘Immersion Travel’ geared for dreamers
Associated Press
September 7, 2008
Do you dream about chucking the daily routine to become a park ranger, or getting a job on a cruise ship? Maybe you’re more the volunteer type, or you’d like to learn about falconry or try a silent meditation retreat.
‘Foreign’ intrigue
Kept promise brings grandma’s secrets to light
By Connie Ogle - The Miami Herald
September 7, 2008
Sadia Shepard grew up just outside Boston with a Muslim mother and a Christian father in a household that celebrated Christmas and Ramadan. But at 13, she learned just how multicultural her family was. She discovered that her mother’s mother, who “wore saris and cooked the same food as everyone else in the family,” had been born Rachel Jacobs, a descendant of the Bene Israel, a small Jewish community whose members believe they are one of the lost tribes, shipwrecked in India 2,000 years ago.
Ad Astra: Daldorph champions social justice
September 7, 2008
Brian Daldorph came to Kansas University’s English department almost 20 years ago and has become a permanent resident of Kansas. He contributes to Kansas belles-lettres in many ways: He writes; he organizes readings; and he is a writing class instructor at the Douglas County Jail — featured in Poet’s Market 2008. He advocates for writers by publishing Coal City Review, a nationally recognized literary magazine.
Local author, artists launch El Diablo
J-W Staff Reports
September 4, 2008
Lawrence writer Jai Nitz, Baldwin inker Ande Parks and Iowa penciler Phil Hester will be on hand to sign copies of their new DC comics project, El Diablo, a six-issue miniseries that resurrects the famed haunted horseman.
‘Read Across Lawrence’ events to begin
By Terry Rombeck
September 1, 2008
For being one city in a state of more than 82,000 square miles, Lawrence gathers more than its fair share of the book “Kansas Curiosities, 2nd Edition: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities and Other Offbeat Stuff.”
Double legacy
Robert Caro speaks about the LBJ centennial
By Hillel Italie - AP National Writer
August 31, 2008
As the centennial of Lyndon Johnson’s birth is observed this week, historian Robert A. Caro would like to think of his longtime subject at his happiest and most fulfilled: Not when Johnson was president, in anguish over Vietnam, but a few years before, as Senate majority leader, the one-man legislative machine.
Book tells story of Bacardi rum and revolutionary Cuba
By Will Weissert - Associated Press Writer
August 31, 2008
Bacardi is the world’s top-selling rum with annual sales of 20 million cases in more than 150 countries. But it does not sell a drop in Cuba, where founder Facundo Bacardi first opened a tin-roofed, dirt-floored distillery on Matadero Street in the eastern city of Santiago in 1862.
Poet’s Showcase
August 31, 2008
“Our Mothers, Our Daughters” by Katie Lashbrook
Best-sellers
New York Times
August 31, 2008
A listing of this week's top-selling nonfiction and fiction literature.
Teen board shares good summer reads
August 19, 2008
“Cheer! Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading’s Ultimate Prize,” by Kate Torgovnick Ready? OK! “Cheer!” is basically a documentary in a book. You read about the struggles of three college cheer teams.
You Happened to Me
By Connie Haas
August 17, 2008
Poet’s Showcase: You Happened to Me by Connie Haas.
Review: First-time novelist explores family theme in barren landscape
By Joy Tipping - The Dallas Morning News
August 17, 2008
First-time novelist Amy Shearn lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., but her bio says she was educated, in part, in New Mexico — and she’s clearly spent some time in West Texas, as well.

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