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Kepler's Best Sellers - 3/2/08
Hardcover Fiction
1. Mudbound, Hillary Jordan
2. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
3. Senator’s Wife, Sue Miller
4.Beginners Greek, James Collins
5. Be...
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Kepler’s Weekly Bestsellers 2/24/08
Hardcover Fiction
1. Appeal, John Grisham
2. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
3. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
4. Reserve, Russell Banks
5. Incomplete Revenge,...
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Judge sentences driver in Halberstam fatality
A University of California-Berkeley journalism student who was driving during a 2007 Menlo Park crash that claimed the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberst...
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Kepler’s Weekly Bestsellers 2/10/08
Hardcover Fiction
1 People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
2 Appeal, John Grisham
3 Senator's Wife, Sue Miller
4 World Without End, Ken Follett
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Super Tuesday in Portola Valley, Atherton
Barack Obama supporters in Portola Valley applaud his speech on TV on election night, Feb. 5. They are, from left (seated on the couch) Joan Polinsky, Samira Amid-Houzour, Noo...
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Atherton boys lead water polo team
Senior Marker Anderson and sophomore Grant Villeneuve, both of Atherton, led Deerfield Academy — a college preparatory school in Deerfield, Massachusetts — to its ...
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Editorial: Church and state in Menlo Park
A guest opinion on these pages last week suggesting that the city of Menlo Park was violating the separation of church and state by renting the City Council chambers to the Ch...
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Exhibits: Black, white and wondrous
"Tide Pool, San Mateo Coast" is one of the black-and-white photographs by Alan McGee of Portola Valley on exhibit from Feb. 1 through 29 at the Portola Art Gallery at Allied A...
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Religious event ignites debate
As the debate continues over whether it was appropriate for a religious event to be held in the Menlo Park City Council Chambers, the verdict is in from the city attorney: If ...
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Kepler's Best Sellers 1/27/08
Hardcover Fiction
1. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
2. World Without End, Ken Follett
3. Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
4. Out Stealing Horses, Per ...
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UPDATE: Theatre investigation related to thefts
A burglary last June and thefts at the Palo Alto Children's Theatre are linked to the investigation of "financial crimes" that caused the City of Palo Alto to close the belove...
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Kepler's Best Sellers 1/20/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
2. Senator’s Wife, Sue Miller
3. Run, Ann Patchett
4. World Without End, Ken Follett
5. My Mistress’s ...
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Parking Enforcer Strikes Again!
I got a parking ticket in the mail today from the City of Menlo Park. Not that getting a parking ticket in this town is hard to do! Heck, sometimes just thinking the thought t...
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Kepler's Best Sellers 1/13/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
2. Touchstone, Laurie R. King
3. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
4. Run, Ann Patchett
5. Plu...
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Pharmaca plans store in downtown Menlo Park
Pharmaca, a growing chain of pharmacies that offers both prescription medication and natural remedies, is taking steps to set up shop on Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park.
Th...
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Man, 19, arrested in assault on teacher
San Mateo County sheriff's deputies arrested a San Mateo man on Tuesday in connection with a November attack on a Woodside High School teacher.
Read the full story here h...
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Kepler's Best Sellers 1/06/07
Hardcover Fiction
1. World Without End, Ken Follertt
2. People Of The Book, Geraldine Brooks
3. Diary Of A Bad Year, J.M. Coetzee
4. Out Stealing Horses, Per Pette...
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