Rows of comic-book albums can be found on the bookshelves of even the most bourgeois Parisian households.

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On the occasions when she spent the night with us, she would carry out her tasks in the house with renewed enthusiasm, insisting on dusting the bookshelves again, cleaning the bathrooms one more time, all the while cracking jokes at which no one laughed.

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That is, until Janine started bringing pictures of Jessica into the office and placing them on the credenza and the bookshelves and hanging them from the walls.

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After all the excitement she now hopes to settle down to finish the novel which will be on bookshelves in the spring.

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Manley told me he decided to do the survey because it touched on an important subject for librarians: the idea of what materials to permit on bookshelves.

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No best-sellers on the subject are to be found on bookshelves.

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It increased in intensity, to the point where books shifted slightly on our bookshelves and timbers creaked, then stopped.

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Two rows of bookshelves stood on either side of the room.

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The total doesn't include a final count of several stashes of ammunition found around the Lanza home in a gun safe, on bookshelves and in a drawer that contained assorted types of rounds.

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Not just on bookshelves but on tables and chairs and windowsills and piled on the floor.

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Now we know what really goes on behind those dusty bookshelves: Will Manley, a retired librarian, author and public administrator, has printed the results of a librarians and sex survey he conducted in 1992.

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