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	<title>Davenport Library Info Cafe</title>
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	<description>No two days exactly alike</description>
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		<title>The Bicycle Runner by G. Franco Romagnoli</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like all boys growing up in Rome during the 1930&#8217;s and 40&#8217;s, the author was expected to join Balilla, Mussolini&#8217;s Fascist Youth Organization in Italy.  An unwilling participant, he counters this activity by becoming a bicycle runner, secretly delivering pamphlets and other materials to members of the Resistance.  Later, near the end of the war, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/the-bicycle-runner-by-g-franco-romagnoli/</link>
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		<title>Hawaii: the Big Island Revealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submitted by Georgann
Aptly subtitled &#8220;the Ultimate Guidebook,&#8221; Hawaii: the Big Island Revealed was a great help to us on our recent trip to The Big Island. Authors Andrew Doughty and Harriett Friedman were terrific &#8220;tour guides.&#8221; The prose is well-written, humorous and thorough. I was so glad we took this book along!
It can be overwhelming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/hawaii-the-big-island-revealed/</link>
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		<title>The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 48 years of marriage, Joseph has asked Betty for a divorce, citing &#8220;irreconcilable differences&#8221;. This confuses Betty because of course they have &#8220;irreconcilable differences&#8221; &#8211; what did that have to do with divorce? And thus begins a tale of manners and family ties, heartbreak and second chances.
To save money Betty and her two adult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/the-three-weissmanns-of-westport-by-cathleen-schine/</link>
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		<title>Frugal Librarian #22: Rising cost of mortar boards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One final tip from the latest book, New Frugality.  If you can, buy college in advance.
Between 1982 and 2007 the cost of fees and tuition rose 439 percent.  Even when adjusting for inflation, the increasing cost of college education is greatly outpacing the purchasing power of the dollar.
So, if it is a foregone conclusion that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/frugal-librarian-22-rising-cost-of-mortar-boards/</link>
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		<title>The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason and Whit Fireson keep dying, but they can&#8217;t seem to stay dead.
Leaders of the notorious, bank-robbing Firefly Gang, they wake up one day in a small-town morgue with no idea on how they got there. They should be dead &#8211; they both sport apparently fatal gunshot wounds &#8211; yet miraculously they&#8217;ve survived. Slipping away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/the-many-deaths-of-the-firefly-brothers-by-thomas-mullen/</link>
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		<title>All the Live Long Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the last years&#8217; worth of talk about passenger rail between here and Chicago, there is a vivid battle on our local papers&#8217; comment pages between the &#8220;that would be nice&#8221; faction and the &#8220;they&#8217;re just trying to get re-elected, where will the money come from?&#8221; team.
Before taking a side, one might wish to peruse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/all-the-live-long-day/</link>
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		<title>Ayiti: The Cost of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
While reading an article on the current trend of &#8220;Serious Games,&#8221; I came across a game called Ayiti: The Cost of Life (www.costoflife.org) where a player is given the task of trying to create a better life for an impoverished family in Haiti. Here is the introduction to the game:
The Guinard family of five is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/ayiti-the-cost-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Frugal Librarian #21: YOU: Power broker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another financial tip the new book, New Frugality.   You’re smarter than a wall-street money manager.
Index funds duplicate the performance of a particular stock market index.  The most famous equity index fund is the S&#38;P 500.  It is made up of stocks of the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies.  They’re on that list because they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/frugal-librarian-21-you-power-broker/</link>
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		<title>DVDs for March</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 2
2012 &#8211; John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover
A geophysical team investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth learns that the core of the Earth is heating up and warns the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build &#8216;arks&#8217; to escape the impending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/03/dvds-for-march-2/</link>
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		<title>Embracing Winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the great performances of the Olympic athletes? Interested in trying one of those winter sports? The library has lots of books to inspire and instruct!
Hockey for Everybody by Cam Neely
Cross-Country Skiing : a Complete Guide by Brian Cazeneuve
Learn Downhill Skiing in a Weekend by Konrad Bartelski
Figure Skating for Dummies by Kristi Yamaguchi
Winter Adventure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/2010/02/embracing-winter/</link>
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