Words to live by

Famous names, faraway places -- a sampling of new books for 2006

By David Mehegan

Globe Staff / January 2, 2006

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The ever-swelling flood of entertainment gadgets continues to dazzle us, with new models of iPods, Xboxes, and cellphones that do everything but pull up your socks. They're all around us, yet there's an even bigger flood of a simpler and older device -- the book. About 195,000 new titles were published in 2004, including 25,184 fiction books, and this year ... (Full article: 1133 words)