June 21, 2008 (New York Times / Julie Bloom) -- Stephenie Meyer, the author of the best-selling young-adult "Twilight Saga," will appear in a four-city tour to promote the fourth and final novel in that vampire love series, "Breaking Dawn."

Little, Brown, hoping to capitalize on the author's fans -- there are 7.7 million "Twilight Saga" books in print in the United States -- said she would headline "an evening of story and song." The Breaking Dawn Concert Series begins on Aug. 1, the eve of the book's release, at the Nokia Theater in Times Square and makes stops in Chicago on Aug. 5, Los Angeles on Aug. 7 and Seattle on Aug. 12.

Tickets cost $20; details are available on stepheniemeyer.com and thetwilightsaga.com.

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Chapter 24

Very quietly, with difficulty restraining her own emotion so as not to excite him further, Ethel had related to Ernest the story of her remarkable interview with Reginald Clarke. In the long silence that ensued, the wings of his soul brushed against hers for the first time, and Love by a thousand tender chains of common suffering welded their beings into one.

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Moby Wouldn't Mind Being a Vampire

Dance star Moby has confessed to fans he would like to be a vampire, if it means he could be immortal. The Porcelain hitmaker offered the bizarre choice to readers of his website blog, and then shocked them by revealing he wants to be a vampire.

He wrote, "If a vampire approached you and said: 'with your consent I'll bite you and you'll have immortality but you'll never see the sun again.' would you say 'ok'?

"Yes, call me crazy, but I think that being a vampire would be fantastic."

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Vampire killing kit sells for $14,850

October 13, 2008 -- A complete and authentic vampire killing kit -- made around 1800 and complete with stakes, mirrors, a gun with silver bullets, crosses, a Bible, holy water, candles and even garlic, all housed in a handsome American walnut case with a carved cross on top -- hammered for $14,850 at the Jimmy Pippen estate sale held Oct. 3-4 in the brand new Natchez Convention Center.

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As yet untitled

I look to the sky,
so clear and blue
peaceful,
calm.
The trees,
brown and dead,
yet they still have
some kind of luster.
The fields,
so expansive,
but like everything,
still enclosed by boundaries.
The road,
the smallest wall in height
to ever separate two things.
I see the breeze,
an impossible feat,
but not for this philosopher,
writer,
poet,
lover.
I see homes,
scattered like
raindrops on a windshield.
A tower or two,

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Bad Teeth Are Good Business for Local Dent Tech's Bewitching Futures

October 10, 1996 (Peter Gilstrap / Phoenix New Times) - It takes a certain brand of optimism and foresight to make a small-market concept work, a certain drive and, of course, the essential ability to recognize a need and fill it. Before a savvy, upward mover even begins to address such concepts as outsourcing, retrenchment and severe lower-pricing to shed high-cost capacity, he must be able to pick the right product at the right moment. Such a man is Rod Jakubik. His product is fangs.

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