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		<title>The Gift of Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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In good times and bad, music heals.  Another healing salve is the ability to approach life more playfully.  Enter a book that teaches both—music and general lightheartedness.  How to Play the Harmonica and other Life Lessons by Sam Barry is a series of 17 lessons about playing the harmonica, and, well, just playing.
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		<title>10 Books to Recession Proof Your Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know, every once in a while we like to point you in the direction of other good books in bad times lists.  The list we&#8217;re referencing today is &#8220;10 Books to Recession Proof Your Life.&#8221;  Living through the past year is enough to make even the most unscathed turn their thoughts toward eliminating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=895&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Jonas on THE ALCHEMIST</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers (in Time Out New York), &#8220;The Alchemist&#8221; is a good book anytime&#8230;
The Alchemist is a story about the endless search of finding out who you truly are. On the road for most of our lives, sometimes it’s difficult to find something to grasp on to, to define [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=855&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gwyneth Paltrow gets CLEAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember our post on the book CLEAN (Clean. It Does a Body Good)?  Well it ends up we&#8217;re not the only ones shouting about the benefits of CLEAN.  In the latest issue of GOOP Gwyneth Paltrow states:
I feel pure and happy and much lighter (I dropped the extra pounds that I had gained during a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=860&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sandra Boynton makes it better&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember when GE sold  the NBC radio station in San Francisco where I was morning news anchor, and we  all lost our jobs.  I had been completely tied to my business card, believing  that’s who I was…and that’s ALL I was.
Then I found a book at  the store.
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		<title>A Bad Blog in Bad Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Books in Bad Times apologizes.  We’ve been a bad blog in bad times for the past month.  We guess all this talk about bad times simply got us down.  We retreated, as so many of us are prone to do when the going gets tough.  We left you hanging. We pledge to *try* not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=810&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovate Your Way To Better Times</title>
		<link>http://goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/innovate-your-way-to-better-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship lessons Tina Seelig imparts in &#8220;What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course for Making Your Place In The World&#8221;  are born from her own fascinating background (medical school, business consultant, founder of a technology company, associate professor, and mother), from her experiences teaching at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=774&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More lists of &#8220;good books for bad times&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/more-lists-of-good-books-for-bad-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the blog &#8220;Book Club Classics: Great resources for serious readers who like to have fun&#8230;&#8221; comes another kindred list of &#8220;Good Books for Bad Times.
And the Progressive Book Club offers an essay and list of books under the title &#8220;Good Books for Bad Times: Why We Need Great Novels More Than Ever.&#8221; The article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=767&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Insight in Bad Times</title>
		<link>http://goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/good-insight-in-bad-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a recent edition of the &#8220;Daily Insight&#8221; newsletter from HarperOne&#8230;

The power we hold over the planet is awesome. We have changed the Earth&#8217;s natural course of development and affected its health by what we do and how we live our lives. We can just as easily change its course again&#8211;for the better.
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