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Insomnia: Nighttime finds readers opening new worlds

In the dark Milwaukee night, when the world sleeps and the silence is broken only by the whisper of an occasional car, Anne Wilde tosses and turns and tosses and reaches for a book from the pile on her bedside table.

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Watch your fingers!
May. 13th — Being a big brother is a tough job. Especially when it means standing in for a teething ring.
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That's how she rolls
May. 8th — Oh, thank God that I'm not invited to Jamie Lee Curtis's 50th birthday bash. And I use that word loosely. If you define bash as getting together with the neighbors for egg-white omelets and protein shakes, then, yes, it's a bash cuz that's what our girl is planning. Oh! Make mine Metamucil! Or not.
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The Mom factor
Author aims to help mothers and daughters understand each other
May. 7th — Let's get this straight right away. Julie Halpert loves her mom dearly. It's just that, well, no one can make an adult daughter feel less like an adult than her mother.
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Food for thought, and then some
May. 4th — Food is so much more than nourishment. It is entertainment to the nth power. Stir in the magic ingredient of travel and you will have so much more than a strained waistband; you will have an endless supply of food for thought.
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Eddie, kiss me goodnight!
May. 1st — The. Cutest. Mouse. Ever. That's all we need to say about Topo Gigio, the Italian, violin-playing mouse that could even melt Ed Sullivan's heart.

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Singing mom's praises
May. 11th — You've heard — and most likely said — it all a thousand times before, but maybe not quite like this.
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Shift in audience shows cracks in 'Idol' future
May. 7th — The median age of an "American Idol" viewer, once in the mid-30s, is now up to 42. And - horror of horrors - viewership is actually UP this season among people aged 50 and over. Those are the folks many television tastemakers pretend don't exist.
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Look to the skies!
May. 5th — Ah, the icy majesty of Antartica, what secrets it still holds — such as this incredibly rare colony of penguins.
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Carole, Carly, Joni: 'Girls Like Us'
May. 2nd — Carole King was married, pregnant and cranking out hit songs at age 17. Joni Mitchell gave up her baby girl and started composing the most heart-wrenching songs of her life. Carly Simon's list of lovers reads like a "Who's Who" of the entertainment industry. Their stories are all chronicled, in juicy detail, in a new book by Sheila Weller.
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‘He's Yours', an adoption story
Apr. 29th — There was a time in Cheryl Dieter's life when she thought being the mother of one child would be enough. "I wanted to travel the world," the freelance writer says. "I thought I wouldn't be able to that with children."
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