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	<title>Good Books in Bad Times &#187; Fiction</title>
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		<title>WaPo&#8217;s Judy Woodruff Late-Summer Reading Suggestions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renowned television journalist Judy Woodruff who has led an esteemed career reporting on politics at CNN, PBS, and NBC put together a summer reading list for the Washington Post&#8217;s Short Stack column.
The books, which include a few classics, some new novels and non-fiction, will bring inspiration to an un-summery political/economic climate and will hopefullly offer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=909&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>More lists of &#8220;good books for bad times&#8221;</title>
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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>An Avenue of Hope and Inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Sea Changes, novelist Gail Graham has created one of her most  compelling characters yet- a woman who is torn between a man who is no longer  alive and an undersea world that offers her peace and  comfort.  The torment of grief is something Graham knows well, having lost not  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=702&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Need a Miracle?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her first novel, &#8220;A Journey, a Reckoning and a Miracle,&#8221; psychiatrist KJ Fraser explores who we are as a society right now, in 2009. We have suffered through the aftermath of 9/11, and we continue to suffer through the results of the war in Iraq, the global recession, and much more. Certainly we have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=676&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More lists of good books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve found more kindred spirits publishing lists of books intended to help us through these trying times.  The first one is here in our own backyard!  On Sunday the San Francisco Chronicle featured &#8220;Good novels for hard times.&#8221;
In February the Poughkeepsie Journal published an article called &#8220;Libraries offer fun, cheap boost during tough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=641&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deepak Chopra&#8217;s &#8220;Buddha&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheedajazz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even one as enlightened as the Buddha had some rough days. In times of sorrow, we often feel comforted by stories of those who walked similar paths.
Deepak Chopra&#8217;s Buddha is an inspiring re-imagining of the tale of a prince who gave up the glorified life of royalty to gain something even more meaningful: wisdom and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=540&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Goodness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Happy Soul Industry by Steffan Postaer God hires an ad agency  to promote goodness. As they compete for bids, the ad men and women wonder how  best to market goodness.  Can advertising be a force for good? Would a campaign  promoting goodness even be possible? And what would it look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goodbooksinbadtimes.wordpress.com&blog=5592911&post=510&subd=goodbooksinbadtimes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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