Sorry to keep bouncing back and forth like this, but: while I'm still not sure how to generate something from which you could run the code extract, the result of running it would look something like this:

AuthorTitleDate acquired
Bekman, Stas, and Eric Cholet Practical mod_perl (2003) 2003-06-30
Burke, Sean M. Perl and LWP (2002) 2002-07-09
Conway, Damian Object Oriented Perl (2000) 2000-07-25
Hall, Joseph N., with Randal L. Schwartz Effective Perl Programming (1998) 2000-11-10

Except that the links would work, and there would be alternating-colored rows, etc. I don't know if that helps anyone help me, but thank you anyway.

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