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Shift by Bradbury, Jennifer
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Publishers Weekly : For best friends Chris and Win, nothing could be more gratifying than a two-month-long cross-country bike trip following high school graduation. But when Win suddenly disappears somewhere in Montana, and Chris, the narrator, returns home alone to Virginia with only a hunch where his friend might be, Chris's once-firm grasp on reality slowly begins to weaken—especially when Win's overprotective, blowhard father launches an FBI investigat...More
After Tupac & D Foster by Woodson, Jacqueline.
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Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. As she did in Feathers with the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Woodson here invokes the music of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, whose songs address the inequalities confronting many African-Americans. In 1994, the anonymous narrator is 11, and Tupac has been shot. Everyone in her safe Queens neighborhood is listening to his music and talking about him, even though the world he sings about seems remote to her. Meanwhile D, a f...More
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
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Library Journal : Starred Review. Lisbeth Salander, the antisocial but brilliant computer hacker who helped journalist Mikael Blomkvist uncover a serial killer on a remote Swedish island in Larsson's acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, takes center stage in this second volume of his "Millenium" trilogy. Opening 18 months after the events of the first book, the novel finds our heroine lounging by the pool at a Caribbean hotel, reading ...More
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Loan guarantees recharge nuclear debate

The Calvert Cliffs power plant near Lusby, Md., is high on the Department of Energy's list of projects that could receive federal loan guarantees. Theplant's operator, Constellation Energy, wants to add a 1,600-megawatt nuclear reactor to the existing plant.President Obamas push to triple federal loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants has recharged the debate over the viability of nuclear energy. Msnbc.com's Mike Stuckey reports.


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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:23:23 GMT
2nd major storm heads for snowy mid-Atlantic

Feb. 9: As a severe winter storm front sweeps across the country, some cities could see an additional 12 to 14 inches of snow. (Today Show)Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday on track for the hard-hit mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices were closed for a second day.


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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:09:48 GMT
Whose job is this? Snow etiquette lost on D.C.

A man attempts to dig his car out of the snow on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday.Washington's history of relatively mild winters has left residents without a common sense of snow etiquette over who should shovel sidewalks or how to save a cleared parking spot.


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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:20:01 GMT
State Farm says it warned Feds about Toyota

Meantime, Toyota announced early Tuesday it would recall about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles to fix brake problems.The nation's largest auto insurer said Tuesday it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles.


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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:46:42 GMT
Early Priuses may have braking issues

After initially downplaying complaints by owners that 2010 Prius brakes could release unexpectedly, the troubled Japanese manufacturer acknowledged last weekthat it had quietly instituted a fix to solve the problem with the sedans that it has built since sometime in January.How far back do potential braking problems with the Toyota Prius go? The answer may be much further than believed, and could involve vehicles dating back to the 2005 model-year.


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Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:59:24 GMT
U.S. officials review Toyota Corolla complaints

Federal safety officials say they will look into complaints from Toyota Corolla drivers about difficulty with the steering on their vehicles.

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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:55:40 GMT
Obama has miles to go to keep all promises

If there were a scorecard for the promises President Barack Obama made a year ago in this struggling city in northern Indiana, he would probably get a C.

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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:42:39 GMT
Death of skater Kerrigans dad ruled homicide

A Massachusetts medical examiner finds figure skater Nancy Kerrigan's father died of a heart rhythm problem after suffering a neck injury so severe it damaged his voice box.

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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:08:52 GMT
U.S. Army closes in on Afghan town

U.S. Army soldiers launched a major operation Tuesday in support of a planned U.S.-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.

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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:49:25 GMT
Defiant Iran accelerates nuclear program

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, is seen visitingthe Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles south of the capital Tehran,on April 8, 2008.Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday over the vociferous objections of the countries which fear the process could eventually lead to nuclear weapons.


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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:37:22 GMT
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