Shopportunities: Used books (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Dan Thieme looked around his house in Menomonee Falls one day and realized he had 20,000 books. That’s where Auggie Snows Quality Used Books began. Thieme was retired from his auto repair shop, but he and his wife had been coll...

Whiteside County Fair premium books available (Quad-City Times)
Premium books for 138th Annual Whiteside County Fair, which runs Aug. 12 to 16, are now available at banks throughout the county.

Children?s Books (New York Times)
1. YOU CAN DO IT!, by Tony Dungy 2. GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder 3. ALPHABET, by Matthew Van Fleet 4. A VISITOR FOR BEAR, by Bonny Becker 5. SMASH! CRASH!, by Jon Scieszka

Local author to sign debut novel at Renaissance Books (The Springfield News-Leader)
Poet and fantasy-genre author C.C. Guice will appear for a book-signing at Renaissance Books, 1337 E. Montclair, beginning at 3 p.m. August 16.

Auto books worth a look (Belleville News-Democrat)
Headed to the beach this summer? OK, maybe you'll only get as far as the backyard hammock. Still, there are a number of new automotive books hitting bookstores. Here's a look at which ones make the grade, and those that don't.

Parish bans leaving phone books on roadside (KTBS Shreveport)
MANSFIELD (AP) -- It soon will be illegal for delivery people to leave telephone books on the roadside in DeSoto Parish. Police jurors voted to outlaw the practice. The new ordinance was prompted by complaints about phone books being left in driveways of vacant dwellings and from road crews that

Birthday books for Mandela's 90th (BBC News)
Glasgow sends 50,000 books to South Africa to mark Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday.

Books sent to South Africa mark Mandela's 90th birthday (BBC News)
Books sent to South Africa mark Mandela's 90th birthday

Wanted: missing library books (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Myrtle Beach police are securing a warrant after a Myrtle Beach woman failed to return $191 worth of library books and DVDs, according to a police report.

DeSoto Parish bans leaving phone books on roadside (KATC 3 Lafayette)
MANSFIELD, La. -- It soon will be illegal for anyone to drop telephone books on the roadside in DeSoto Parish. Police jurors voted to outlaw the practice earlier this week.