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		<title>We&#8217;ve moved!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re in the process of migrating In the Bookroom to its new home on our recently redesigned web site.  Visit us at http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/770000077.html for our latest posts.

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		<title>Galley Giveaways at BEA &#8216;07</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, May 31, BookExpo America returns to the Big Apple, and librarians on the hunt for hot galleys won&#8217;t be disappointed if my findings are any indication. Using Barbara Hoffert&#8217;s Prepub Alert contact list, I compiled a sizable list of must-gets. Without further ado, here they are by publisher:

HarperCollins: Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/05/01/galley-giveaways-at-bea-07/</link>
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		<title>Xpress Reviews for Week of May 1, 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s May already - how time flies, alas.
Here are the titles reviewed in our web-only, freely accessible Xpress Reviews section.
Xpress Reviews for Week of May 1, 2007
** - means that it is a starred title
FICTION
Conroy, Robert. 1945. Ballantine.
**Ignatius, David. Body of Lies. Norton.
**Koontz, Dean. The Good Guy. Bantam.
**Los Angeles Noir. Akashic.
Miner, Valerie. After Eden. Univ. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/05/01/xpress-reviews-for-week-of-may-1-2007/</link>
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		<title>Sundance recommends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While book review pages are being cut drastically (see &#8220;Save This Endangered Species: Book Reviews&#8220;), Sundance catalog is doing its part to promote literature—or to weasel its branding onto everything. The Sundance Reader&#8217;s Collection offers eight paperback &#8220;staff favorites, guaranteed to inspire lofty dreams and earthly passions&#8221; for $98.
Apparently, they are banking on their recommendation alone.  Sure, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/04/27/sundance-recommends/</link>
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		<title>An Ugly Award Only A Winner Could Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is the Oscar, a bald naked man holding a sword. And the Emmy, a winged woman holding an atom. And then there&#8217;s the Edgar, a ceramic bust of Edgar Allen Poe and probably the ugliest award on the planet.
 
I mention this because the statuette&#8217;s unattractiveness (not Poe himself) was a major theme at last night&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/04/27/an-ugly-award-only-a-winner-could-love/</link>
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		<title>Save Book Review Coverage—Write Xpress Reviews!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to be a book. That is to say, it&#8217;s hard to be a book and get noticed because there are so many and, as National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) member Scott McLemee pointed out in his April 25th &#8220;Critical Mass&#8221; column, book review coverage in newspapers is making like the dodo and dying out.
To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/04/27/save-book-review-coverage%e2%80%94write-xpress-reviews/</link>
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		<title>Colbert Promotes Poetry His Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the efforts of my media-obsessed little sister, last week I had the opportunity to sit in the studio audience of The Colbert Report, Comedy Central&#8217;s often gut-busting spoof on the conservative political pundit show. The guest: actor Sean Penn. His affront to the Reagan-looking Colbert: writing (and reading) a poem condemning President Bush for our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/04/25/colbert-promotes-poetry-his-way/</link>
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		<title>Xpress Reviews for Week of Apr. 24, 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hullo!
Here are the titles reviewed in this week&#8217;s web-only, freely-accessible Library Journal Xpress Reviews section. (Remember, there&#8217;s that handy-dandy RSS feed!). Also, we always welcome suggestions, comments, praise, criticisms, kittens, rainbows, and flowers.
Xpress Reviews for Week of Apr. 24, 2007
** - means that it is a starred title
FICTION
Abani, Chris. The Virgin of Flames. Penguin.
Hall, Oakley. Love and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/04/24/xpress-reviews-for-week-of-apr-24-2007/</link>
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		<title>Subway Sighting: Le Philibert de Marilou</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m only human in New York City, which means I often get sick of looking at human faces. In fact, I&#8217;m supposed to avoid looking at them because you never know—a tired glance could be taken as a murderous glare, a smile for an invitation to run all the bases.
But I digress. What I&#8217;m trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/04/24/subway-sighting-le-philibert-de-marilou/</link>
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		<title>Save This Endangered Species: Book Reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to pressure from corporate owners and shareholders eager to turn a quick profit, newspapers in recent years have been cutting back or eliminating their book review coverage. Their main excuse: not enough advertising from publishers to support the reviews. But manufacturers of sporting equipment don&#8217;t advertise either, and I see little cutback in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bookblog.libraryjournal.com/blog/2007/04/23/save-this-endangered-species-book-reviews/</link>
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