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...bookshop near my old home, I find an obscure monograph on the history of Cochin that provides more clues to the tiles. The author suggests they were presented to the Cochin Raja by the Chinese traders who were accompanied by Ma Huan, the treasure ship's chronicler, and an unnamed ambassador (probably Zheng He). The tiles, he claims, were meant for the Raja's palace, but some clever Jewish merchants spread the rumor that Chinese use cow's blood to make porcelain and the King, a devout Hindu, had to give them up - to the Jewish merchants...
Says Harvard Square Bookshop Employee Tom D. Hummel, "The last thing the world needs is another shoe store...
...delighted," said Louisa Solano, owner of the Grolier Poetry Bookshop. From the window of her store, Solano faces the Adidas storefront. "I'm glad to know that the Harvard community had greater taste than the store assumed they had," she said...
What becomes a legend most? Apparently these days it's a book about a battle with a chronic illness. Rumors swirled last week that bidding for MICHAEL J. FOX's memoir about his 10-year struggle with Parkinson's ended north of the $4 million mark. It will join bookshop shelves already bulging with brave tales of celebrity indisposition, including Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike, detailing his struggle with testicular cancer, and in September, Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught MS and Didn't Tell Nobody, by David Lander of Laverne & Shirley...
...This undermines the personal quality of the place," says Louisa Solano, owner of Grolier Poetry Bookshop...