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Family ties

Blake Bailey can’t look at one distinct Oklahoma City high-rise without thinking about his brother, Scott. As a young man, Scott was arrested for disturbing the peace after he was caught dangling from a horizontal flagpole at the top of the office tower. “That is precisely and invariably what I associate with 50 Penn Place,” […]

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Read it

For over 30 years, musical satirist Weird Al Yankovic has entertained generations of goofy teenagers and dorky adults with accordion-driven song parodies such as “Eat It,” “Smells Like Nirvana” and “My Bologna.” However, with the release of his second children’s book, My New Teacher and Me!, he has started a second career pursuing a completely […]

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‘Cat’ lady

It’s not often that a cat writes a New York Times best-selling series, but for more than 20 years now, Sneaky Pie Brown has defied the odds, with the help of her human owner, Rita Mae Brown, of course. This month, the 20th anniversary book of Brown’s Mrs. Murphy mystery series, The Big Cat Nap, […]

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Frontier cookin’

Ree Drummond 1 p.m. Saturday Full Circle Bookstore 1900 Northwest Expressway 842-2900 The megapopular blogger and author will speak and sign books at Full Circle Bookstore to benefit the YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter. A Bartlesville native who attended college in Los Angeles, Drummond is a city girl accidentally gone country after she fell for a […]

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State of shock

David A. Farris may be Oklahoma’s Fox Mulder. Tracking down the Sooner State’s files of the unexplained, he’s compiled his findings into three books, from 1995’s “Mysterious Oklahoma” to 1999’s “Oklahoma Outlaw Tales.” On Sunday at Full Circle Bookstore, he’ll sign copies of his latest, “Oklahoma Outlaws, Spooky Stories and All Around Folklore,” which is […]

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