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On Penguin's website, more than 40 Penguin Group authors are sharing the books they want to give and receive as gifts this season. In this second annual "What to Give & What to Get" promotion, for example, Elizabeth Gilbert said she is planning a "19th-century literature bender" next year and titles by George Eliot and Anthony Trollope top her wish list, while Sue Monk Kidd would like to receive The Help by Kathryn Stockett and plans to give David Benioff's City of Thieves.
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When the owner of a bookstore in the village of Poligny, France, 250 miles southeast of Paris, said she was going to close her 150-year-old, 525-sq.-ft. bookstore, citizens formed a corporation, capitalized it at $70,000, spruced up the store and have reopened it as the New Bookstore, the Washington Post reported.

"This place is part of Poligny's history, part of its patrimony," Corinne Dalloz, a shareholder and the only paid employee in the bookstore, told the Post.

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Join us for the Flower Hill Fall Art Showcase, Sunday November 8th, 12:00-5:00pm. Dozens of local artists will display, discuss and sell their Artwork throughout the mall. Painters, sculptors, ceramic, mosaic and jewelry artisans from throughout Southern California will abound at Flower Hill. Dance, music, raffles.... Join the fun and check out the new stores!