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Read "Gotcha Capitalism"!!!
I recommend the new book "Gotcha Capitalism - How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day - And What You Can Do About It"
Reading this book has been an emotional experience - no... |
A.L. |
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on Apr 7, 2008 at 9:31 am by EHM, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood |
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A Book Relevant to Palo Alto
Hello,
In case anyone is interested, I've recently published a book that's relevant to Palo Alto. It's called "Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding... |
Aaron Greenspan |
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on Jul 10, 2008 at 2:32 pm by fireman, a resident of another community |
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Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
This book is the 2008 Silcon Valley Reads selection.
It is available now at the Palo Alto City Library. People all over Santa Clara County will be reading it and going to e... |
abbyboyd |
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on Mar 19, 2008 at 2:00 pm by Paly reporter, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I loved this book even though at one point I put it down and just thought I couldn't go on. Maybe at the baby's cracked head (not to give anything away). But I continued becau... |
abbyboyd |
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on Apr 10, 2007 at 12:53 pm by abbyboyd, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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The Belmont Library presents New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance
The Belmont Library presents New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, sharing her latest thriller Deadly Stakes.
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BooksInc |
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on Mar 20, 2013 at 2:12 pm by BooksInc, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood |
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First they came for the hardcovers...
...and I didn't speak out because I didn't read hardcovers.
Web Link |
bookwork |
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on Feb 1, 2011 at 3:34 am by RegretfulKindleOwner, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Review of Steven Johnson's "Where Good Ideas Come From"
Real Innovation is More Than Connectivity
Steven Johnson's Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation
Riverhead Books
326 pp.
$26.95
By Brian King
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Brian King |
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on Nov 24, 2010 at 7:54 am by Anon., a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Is someone trying to tell us something?
I have just noticed some nonsence postings on the books postings and wonder if someone is trying to make a point.
OK I like to read. I enjoy a good mystery whodunit along... |
Carol |
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on Dec 5, 2006 at 3:16 pm by Amy, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Book Discussion Group for Diana Gabaldon Outlander Novels
I've been reading and enjoying very much the "Outlander" Novels. I know that there are many online discussion groups for these books but I was hoping to meet some area fans fo... |
carol riso |
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on Mar 19, 2008 at 1:56 pm by Paly reporter, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Local Zen Master Talk and Book Signing on Saturday April 30th at 11 AM
Les is the abbot of the Kannon Do Zen Center on Rock Street in Mountain View. While studying and practicing Zen, he worked in the hi-tech, corporate world for over thirty year... |
Chi |
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on Apr 26, 2011 at 8:10 am by Chi, a resident of Mountain View |
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Great book for aspiring novelists
One of my favorite books -- and a tremendous tool for any aspiring novelists out there -- is "On Writing" by Stephen King. The literary legend not only offers a fascina... |
Danny |
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on Apr 10, 2007 at 5:01 pm by Danny, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood |
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Living an intentional life
On a small East Palo Alto street, just blocks from U.S. Highway 101, 15 people share three houses, a trailer, a diverse fruit and vegetable garden, meals and household tasks.
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Editor |
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on Apr 5, 2013 at 9:32 pm by PatZy, a resident of Mountain View |
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New interest in book inspired by sensational Stanford murder
A novel inspired by a sensational 1933 murder on Stanford's Faculty Row is the subject of Stanford's "Another Look" Book Club -- a campus initiative by writer Tobias Wolff tha... |
Editor |
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on Feb 5, 2013 at 11:34 pm by Sarah, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood |
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Vallejo Man Injured in East Palo Alto shooting
Police in East Palo Alto are investigating a shooting that took place early Sunday morning.
Read the full story here Web Link... |
Editor |
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on Jan 21, 2013 at 12:17 pm by Raymond, a resident of East Palo Alto |
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A world of cooking
This year we have chosen a smorgasbord of cookbooks.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 30, 2012, ... |
Editor |
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on Dec 5, 2012 at 7:38 pm by Judy, a resident of Mountain View |
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Tomorrow's events (Dec. 6)
[Web Link Author talk: 'Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore']
A tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, y... |
Editor |
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on Dec 5, 2012 at 12:09 pm by LVK, a resident of the Professorville neighborhood |
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Murphy plays solid at linebacker and that's no bull
Stanford football notebook
Trent Murphy went up against an 800-pound cow and lived to tell the story. Some 300-pound offensive lineman must seem like a featherweigh... |
Editor |
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on Sep 25, 2012 at 7:07 pm by Mike, a resident of another community |
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Dynasty-scale dining
With more than 200 dishes covering nearly every permutation of meat, seafood, vegetables, rice and noodles, Ming's aims to please even the finickiest of appetites. There are s... |
Editor |
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on Sep 7, 2012 at 12:40 pm by Betty Dunworth, a resident of Los Altos |
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Book Talk
SUMMER SOIREE ... As a kick-off to the Oct. 5-13 San Francisco Litquake, four authors will mingle and chat at the Sunny Sunday Summer Soiree at 4 p.m. on Aug. 19, at an... |
Editor |
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on Sep 6, 2012 at 7:06 pm by Vidya, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Old, but still kicking
"Old Ladies," by Nancy Huddleston Packer, John Daniel & Company, McKinleyville, Ca., 174 pp., $15
Read the full story here Web Link... |
Editor |
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on Aug 21, 2012 at 1:41 pm by Bonnie Zare, a member of the Nixon School community |
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Smoking gun
"Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition" by Robert N. Proctor; University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London; 752... |
Editor |
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on Jul 23, 2012 at 5:47 pm by Sharon, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Best Of Palo Alto 2012
On Your Mark ... Get Set ... Vote! In this year's Best Of we cheer the Olympian businesses that champion the Palo Alto area -- the Peninsula's gold-medal restaurants, retailer... |
Editor |
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on Jul 8, 2012 at 2:58 pm by Editor, Palo Alto Online |
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Artist, surgeon team up to illustrate medical techniques
As a longtime medical illustrator, Chris Gralapp has collaborated with many physicians. One of the most frequent copilots on her journeys is surgeon Robert K. Jackler, chair o... |
Editor |
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on Jun 11, 2012 at 3:55 pm by <a href=”http://www.persuasivespeech1.com”>persuasive speech </a>, a resident of another community |
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Splendor in the glass
Stained-glass artist Judy Miller had a determination that took her places -- distances so far that her work is said to be in more than a thousand homes on four continents.
Re... |
Editor |
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on Jun 5, 2012 at 4:32 pm by John Lenihan, a resident of another community |
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Menlo-Atherton grad behind the scenes of Facebook's IPO
When Tom Wirth graduated from Menlo-Atherton High School in 1975, not many people outside California had heard of Menlo Park. That all changed Friday, in part thanks to the ma... |
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on May 22, 2012 at 12:50 pm by musical, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood |
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