THE IDENTITY BEHIND ALIX BOSCO?

photo Phil DoyleWe haven't heard from Spymouse for a while, but lo, my sleuth responded to my last post about the mysterious anonymity of the winner of...

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A MYSTERY WITHIN A MYSTERY WITHIN A MYSTERY

Well, one mystery is solved.  At last we have a winner for the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, founded by Craig Sisterson, the...

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THAT HAUNTED LIBRARY

Fascinated by the story of the hidden chamber that has been located in Belvedere House, the National Library of India, I have been impatiently awaiting...

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NYT BOOK REVIEWERS LIST THEIR FAVORITES

The New York Times posted lists of top ten books from their individual book critics, along with the NYTBR's list of 100 notable books:From Michiko Kakutani:NonfictionLIFE...

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Amazon Music Sale: 1.99$ MP3 Album Now

Looking for latest Music Albums? Now you can load your iPod with some new music tunes in cheap price. Amazon now offering their customers to get MP3 Album...

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Amazing Christmas story revealed in a suitcase of letters

Photograph by Bradley E CliftA Yuletide Gift of KindnessThe Smithson Magazine (link embedded above) carries a heartwarming story by Ted Gup, who...

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'Angry Birds' Available for Wii, PS3, Xbox 360

"Angry Birds," one of the most successful mobile games in history, is taking its bird-slinging game mechanics to a new platform: the traditional game...

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Apple Discount Price for iPad, iPod and MacBook Pro

Apple's iPad tablet computer, one of the hottest items of the holiday shopping season got a price cut on the company's website Friday.People who buy the...

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Eighty-five-year-old is the third woman to win Cervantes Prize

The BBC reports that Spanish novelist Ana Maria Matute (pictured) has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor.Unsurprisingly,...

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The perfect Christmas gift for collectors

The Guardian newspaper has an intriguing item of interest to all book collectors.  Though not a likely wedding gift for Kate and Wills (assuming...

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Finished copies of TUPAIA arrive

To my astonishment, my copies of the Praeger hardback of Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator arrived this morning.  I hadn't expected them...

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Department merger seen as threat to democracy in New Zealand

Veteran archivists Ray Grover and Kathryn Patterson have published an op-ed in the Dominion Post of Wellington, arguing that Government moves to subsume...

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BOOK TRAILER FOR TUPAIA

Amazing techno-wizard and OldSaltBlogger Rick Spilman has been working on a book trailer for Tupaia.   Here is the brilliant resu...

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Facebook Registered "Face" Trademark

Facebook has been registered the word "Face" as a trademark which is issued by the US Patent And Trademark Office as a �Notice Of Allowance� for trademarking...

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THE COMMISSIONER AND THE ARCHIVES

Archives faces the axeArchives! The very word is redolent of dust and decay. Of pale-faced historians poring over faded documents as they fine-tune their...

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That New Zealand National Library and Archives New Zealand issue ...

Both the Labour Party and the Green Party think that amalgamating the National Library (together with the iconic Alexander Turnbull Library) and Archives...

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THE HAUNTED LIBRARY

A real-life, perhaps "true crime" mystery has unexpectedly come to light, with the renovation of India's National Library, historic Belvedere...

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Fascinating KiwiCrime profile in The (New Zealand) Listener

I have just opened my copy of the latest Listener, just arrived in the mail, and have found a great article by Guy Somerset, profiling Craig Sisterson,...

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All Blacks doing well -- and not because of anything fortuitous or fortunate

The current All Blacks are certainly doing well -- but the commentators need to look up a dictionary of English usage.So often what happens is...

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Windows Phone 7 Jail Broken App Demonstrated

Just a week after an Australian developer discovered a way to run unauthorized code, the first ''jailbroken'' app for Windows Phone 7 has been demonstrated.Blogger...

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Amazon Sells Droid Phones in Penny

Amazon is now offering variety of offers for their valuable customers worldwide. Now Amazon also comes up with their latest offer regarding Droid smartphones.Amazon...

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Amazon Offering Free Kindle E-Books Gift

World's Larget online retailer and seller Amazon is now offering you a chance to take Amazon Kindle E-Books for free as a gift from company.Before, customers...

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MySpace Integrated Facebook Connect Button

The most popular button amongst many webmasters and websites Facebook Connect has finally appeared on the signup page for MySpace. Now Myspace finally...

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Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 Goes to Beta Testers

Microsoft has sent out to select beta testers the first iteration of its service pack for Office 2010. The service pack weighs in at 294 MB and is currently...

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Internet Explorer 9 Preview HTML 5 Video Leaked

Microsoft has just released their latest platform preview of Internet Explorer 9. The 7th release of the IE9 platform preview brings a number of performance...

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AS THE EARTH TURNS SILVER

If you want to fulfil your dreams, you will have to work relentlessly.  At least twice as hard as any man.  You must find within yourself the...

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