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Writing workshopfor January
BOARDMAN -- Author JoAnne Cassity will direct "Writing Well," the third writing workshop, from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Copperfield and Twist Bookstore in the Market Square Plaza, 7500 Market St. Cost is $15 per person; call (330) 726-8175 for more information.
Events planned at Barnes & amp; Noble
BOARDMAN -- On Tuesday at 7 p.m., the Barnes & amp; Noble book group "Women in Print" will meet to discuss the novel "The Lovely Bones," by Alice Sebold. The "Military History" book group will meet on Saturday at 1 p.m. to discuss "Tarawa -- The Aftermath," by Dr. Donald Allen.
At 10:30 on Tuesday and Thursday morning, the bookstore will feature "Childrens' Story Time." On Friday at 7 p.m. the "American Girls Club" (for girls 7-13) will meet for rock painting and a book discussion. On Saturday at noon, there will be a story time and a costume character visit by Winnie the Pooh.
REGION
Former model, speakerpublishes second book
CANTON -- DeLores Pressley, Canton-based motivational speaker, author and former award-winning plus-size model, has just released her second book and with the assistance the e-commerce women's apparel company Mostly Plusses.com kicked off a nationwide media tour to promote it.
Her first book, "Advanced Revelations To Plus Size Modeling" (Greer Enterprises) was co-authored with Amie J. Greer and published in 1999.
In "Clean Out the Closets of Your Life: Uncover Obstacles, and Discover a Better You," Pressley offers insights on overcoming obstacles, reaching your full potential and living a life of success. It is based on her own experience and success in the fashion and modeling world.
Pressley, an advocate of the rights of full-figured women, is the founder and president of Dimensions Plus, a model agency and image consultant firm for plus-size women. She produces the Plus USA Woman & amp; Model Tour annually and is an on-air personality with WINW Joy 1520 AM Radio.
For more information about Pressley,, visit www. bornsuccessful.com.
BRIEF REVIEWS
"Common Phrases and Where They Come From" by Myron Korach and John Mordock (Lyons Press, 200 pages, $9.95 softbound)
Michael Pakenham of the Baltimore Sun writes: There are entire library shelves of lexicons of phrases and fables, and I have never met one I didn't like. But this fresh entry, while far from comprehensive, has the particular charms of being straightforward and uncluttered. I didn't know that the emperor Pompey was the first to take things -- everything he drank -- with a grain of salt, which he believed was antidote against poisons. I had forgotten that it was the English judge Francis Butler in 1732 who ruled that a man "could not beat his wife with a stick larger than the diameter of his thumb," thus forever establishing the rule of thumb in the language.
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