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Encinitas author riding high on 'Bubble'
By: ANNA CHIMOWICZ - For the North County Times
Who of us is lucky enough to turn our life's travels into our living? Traveling, for most people, is what we do to get away from work.
Books to help kids be nice to others
By: MELISSA RAYWORTH - For The Associated Press
Even the most whimsical bedtime stories can teach a useful lesson or two. Using a motley group of characters that include a grumpy duck, a nervous rabbit and the obligatory wise owl, several new children's books isolate behaviors kids will need to learn as they grow: empathy, patience, cooperation, compromise. But they still manage to have some fun at the same time.
'Spook Country' fascinating, frightening
By: MARY FOSTER - Associated Press
Hollis Henry, investigative reporter and former rock singer, has a fascinating assignment. She's in Hollywood checking out a new art form - a virtual art that can re-create the death scenes of the famous or fill a hotel room with knee-high poppies.
Mayor's aide tells insider tale of Hurricane Katrina's effect on New Orleans
By: MARY FOSTER - Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS -- After Hurricane Katrina inundated his city, as Mayor Ray Nagin surveyed what was already being called the nation's worst natural disaster, press secretary Sally Forman asked if he was OK, she writes in a new book on the man and the post-storm chaos.
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