REGION: Preschoolers receive books to build literacy (North County Times)
Preschoolers in Lake Elsinore and Wildomar soon will be receiving new books each week as part of a program to encourage early literacy among young children. Project Read With Me is a 7-year-old effort to spur parents to read with their children, teac
Cheap books readers can devour (Lake County News-Sun)
What better way to put books into hands and homes where there are no books than to sell stuff to read for really, really cheap? Readers who shop at the Friends' Sale Room can shelve their books, dog-ear them, scribble in the margins, even do as naturalist Charles Darwin did -- tear out the pages they want to keep. Books are meant to be devoured, after all.
Venezuela Closes McDonald's for 'Cooking the Books' (Fox News)
The Venezuelan government has ordered all McDonald's restaurants closed for 48 hours for what it calls irregularities in the fast-food chain's financial books.
Chamber to sponsor Quick Books course (Savannah Morning News)
SPRINGFIELD - The Effingham County Chamber of Commerce, along with the University of Georgia Small Business Development Center, will sponsor a Quick Books seminar Thursday at Effingham County High School.
Book junkies: America reading less, but some people still love books (The Charleston Gazette)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Even when she watches TV, Cindy Lilly is usually flipping through a book or magazine. The 47-year-old secretary reads four to six books a week. She loves books of all kind: mysteries by Janet Evanovich, books on spirituality, classics...
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