Start a bridge club: If book clubs bore you and dinner parties leave you exhausted, then maybe a brisk game of bridge is just what the doctor ordered.

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This week, I received a call from a man whose father, now deceased, owned a very important letter by Woodrow Wilson, found folded within the book The Bridge to France, by Edward N.

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From there, we rode to Notre-Dame cathedral, which we explored before switching to even more exotic transport the Batobus, a boat that not only took us east to the Jardin des Plantes botanic gardens and a zoo (whose tiger Madeline tells, "pooh-pooh") but also beneath the Pont Neuf, the bridge Madeline teeters atop (in the first book) and falls from (in the second).

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That seems a long way from sleeping under a bridge, and I get a sense that the Sartre book is a kind of talisman: a pledge to himself that it will happen.

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Plans for a book festival in Blairgowrie, a tourist bus in Breadalbane and a bridge near St Fillans have also been awarded money.

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Robert Putnam, author of "Bowling Alone, " a best-selling book that looked at the decline of social and civic life in America, says bridge and bridge lunches were once part of the glue of communities.

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Her collection of some 80 cookbooks and bridge books includes primers by Fannie Farmer, Betty Crocker, Peg Bracken, even a 1954 recipe book by Alice B.

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From the 360-degree observation deck on the 72nd floor of the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe at 310m, London opens up like a pop-up book and the landmarks of St Paul's Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge look toy-town tiny.

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