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		<title>&#8220;Tesser&#8221; to Seattle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Madeleine L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s classic A Wrinkle in Time, characters time travel by way of &#8220;tesser.&#8221; The shortest distance between two points is a line, Mrs Whatsit explains,  but what if that line could wrinkle? Imagine a length of yarn, and if you folded it in half, the two ends would meet. This is how I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Crossings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story begins with a place. On the corner of Washington and School Streets in Boston, Anne Hutchinson, a woman who became known for her religious dissidence, first took up residence on the property that would become an important crossroads in American literary history. At this time there would have been around thirty booksellers in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globecornerbookstore.com/blogs/2012/05/20/literary-crossings/</link>
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		<title>Breaking News &#8211; Brookline Booksmith purchases globecorner.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Brookline Booksmith purchases www.globecorner.com and opens Globe Corner Travel Annex in their Brookline store. Dana Brigham, the Manager/Co-owner of Brookline Booksmith and Patrick Carrier, president of The Old Corner Bookstore Inc. jointly announced today that Brookline Booksmith has acquired the rights to The Globe Corner Bookstore’s trademarks, trade names, and the web site, www.globecorner.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 New York Times Notable Books of the Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, the New York Times publishes their annual list of the 100 Notable Books of the Year along with some additional supplemental lists (Book Critics Top Ten; roundups of major books in categories such as Travel, Cooking, and Photography) The Globe Corner features those books on the Times lists that fit within the scope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globecornerbookstore.com/blogs/2011/12/05/2011-new-york-times-notable-books-of-the-year/</link>
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		<title>Associated Press Interview with Globe Corner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, Beth Harpaz,  the Associated Press Travel editor rings up The Globe Corner, along with a few other travel booksellers and publishers for her annual article, &#8220;Books for the traveler: Holiday gift suggestions&#8221;.  Her article started rolling out into newspapers around the country over the past few days &#8212; including the Washington Post, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globecornerbookstore.com/blogs/2011/11/14/associated-press-interview-with-globe-corner/</link>
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		<title>Focus on Colombia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The October Destination of the Month is South America &#8212; offering 15% off on all books and maps for South America. Our October newsletter features, among other topics, a spotlight on Colombia. . . . Focus on Colombia: You know a travel destination has gone &#8220;mainstream&#8221; when The Boston Globe devotes the front page of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globecornerbookstore.com/blogs/2011/10/19/focus-on-colombia/</link>
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		<title>A Lithuanian Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my first full day in Vilnius, I criss-crossed the cobble-stoned Old Town marveling at the fanciful Baroque architecture and the many beautiful churches whose steeples and bell towers reach for the sky.  It took only a few hours to see the highlights and so with a sense of accomplishment I stopped to rest in a cafe. If it were a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globecornerbookstore.com/blogs/2011/09/14/a-lithuanian-month/</link>
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		<title>GCB adds a new customer care staff position</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the lazy, hazy dog days of August, the two company dogs finally set aside Skype and met in the same physical space on neutral ground at the company webmaster&#8217;s family camp on a remote pond in the New Hampshire mountains. Most of the GCB customers are quite familiar with Ulla (the golden retriever whose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globecornerbookstore.com/blogs/2011/08/19/gcb-adds-a-new-customer-care-staff-position/</link>
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		<title>New Books on Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our latest newsletter featured the unusually large number of books released this spring on the subject of Paris &#8212; either new in hardcover, or newly released in paper.  You can view the full list in the newsletter. All books on Paris are 15% off through August 15th! Here&#8217;s a sampling of some June new releases [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globecornerbookstore.com/blogs/2011/07/23/new-books-on-paris/</link>
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		<title>Ulla&#8217;s Summer Furlough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harvard Square customers have inquired about Ulla&#8217;s status in the wake of the closing of the Cambridge retail store.  Rest assured that our crack customer care representative is still reporting for duty every day to her cubicle (dog bed) at the GCB web site.  She does miss the visits from her fans in Harvard Square, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globecornerbookstore.com/blogs/2011/07/21/ullas-summer-furlough/</link>
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