D-Day anniversary recalled with wartime detail and memorials
As D-Day nears, June 6 2004 marks the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord. The piece notes Allied leaders, German and Japanese Axis powers, vast invasion scales, memorials in Bedford Virginia New Orleans and Portsmouth England, and library and book recommendations across adult and youth sections.
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Europe
Germany
Italy
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Dwight Eisenhower
Bedford
New Orleans
Portsmouth
England
History Channel
A&e
PBS
Ottawa
Jane Penrose
Baltimore
Parson history book honors local images fund raiser
Parsons historian Maynard Harding leads a new soft cover book The Way We Were in Parsons Kansas compiling images from the Iron Horse Society calendar project. It includes an 1917 Suffragette Ball invitation and a May 1873 governor's proclamation for a $2000 Bender family reward, with photos from 1900s Parsons. Books cost 15 dollars and are sold at Bleacher Gear and Iron Horse Museum.
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Parsons
Iron Horse Society
Maynard Harding
Kansas
Queen City of the
Great Southwest
Harding
David Mattox
Mattox
Julie
Bender
Katy
Ing
Iron Horse Museum
Best Sellers List Highlights Diverse Hardcover and Paperback Picks
Publishers Weekly tops hardcover fiction with The Da Vinci Code and The Five People You Meet in Heaven among others while nonfiction features The South Beach Diet and Plan of Attack. Mass market and trade paperback lists include Angles & Demons, Naked Prey, The Lovely Bones, and Life of Pi, with several authors like John Sandford Dan Brown and Harlan Coban appearing across formats.
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Dan Brown
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Mitch Alborn
Hyperion
Ian Caldwell
Dustin Thomason
Dial
John Sandford
Michael Connelly
Pocket Star
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Harlan Cohen
Dutton
Alexander McCall Smith
Sea Child
Arthur Agatsion
Rodale Press
Lynne Truss
Gotham
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Rick Warren
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Ron Chemow
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Founding Mothers
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Morrow
Pocket
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Signet
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Penguin
Lauren Weisberger
Broadway Books
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