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04 Aug

Favorable Book Revue: Clinton to Appear at Long Island Indie This Saturday

The latest independent bookstore added to former President Bill Clinton's My Life (Knopf) book tour schedule is Book Revue, Long Island's largest independent bookstore, in Huntington, New York.

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04 Aug

Obituary -- Chris Saad, 40, Owner of Chris' Corner

On Saturday, July 31, Dr. Shahnaz Christine "Chris" Saad, owner of Chris' Corner: Books for Kids & Teens, in Philadelphia, passed away from complications related to scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease that leads to hardening of the skin. She was 40 years old.

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04 Aug

Reva Leaves With Book at Her Side

The following column, about the recent death of Reva Previant Schwartz of Harry W. Schwartz bookstore, appeared in the August 1, 2004, edition of The Milwaukee Journal.

She was the best of readers.

As late as last weekend, on her deathbed, almost blind at age 91, she settled back to listen to the nearly impenetrable introduction of Dostoyevski's The Idiot.

She had read the novel before. But this was a new translation recently available on Books On Tape.

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04 Aug

September 2004 Book Sense Picks

1. WAITING FOR TEDDY WILLIAMS: A Novel, by Howard Frank Mosher (Houghton Mifflin, $24, 0618197222) "Fans of Mosher will be delighted with this return to Kingdom Common, Vermont, where a boy’s most intense desires are to find his father and for the Red Sox to win the World Series.

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