Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
by Elizabeth Royte (2008-05-13)
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Royte (Garbage Land) plunges into America's mighty thirst for bottled water in an investigation of one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Posted: Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 6:17 pm by Sylvhania
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Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler
by L. Jon Wertheim ()
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(35)
If professional pool players are an endangered species, pool hustlers would seem altogether extinct. But like a field researcher reporting a passenger pigeon in New Jersey, Wertheim presents Danny Basavich, aka Kid Delicious, as proof that hustlers walk among us yet.
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Posted: Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 12:48 pm by Sylvhania
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Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea
by Chelsea Handler (2008-04-22)
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Handler proves the adage that just because one can, doesn't mean one should. In this disjointed collection of memories and experiences, even her overenthusiastic voice cannot compensate for the irrelevance and frivolousness that is this book.
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Posted: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 10:19 am by Sylvhania
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The Areas of My Expertise
by John Hodgman (2005-10-20)
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(156)
In this super-literate, ultimately exhausting exercise in literary parody, New York Times magazine contributor Hodgman has produced "a compendium of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE."
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Posted: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 10:19 am by Sylvhania
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Orange Mint and Honey
by Carleen Brice (2008-02-12)
average customer review: (41)
In Brice's accomplished debut, African-American Shay Dixon, a burnt-out grad student, has a visitation/fantasy/fever dream featuring Nina Simone, the high priestess of soul, who counsels Shay to go home. To do that, she must face Nona, the drunken failure of a mother she's not spoken to in seven years and blames for a harrowing childhood that left her emotionally scarred.
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Posted: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 10:18 am by Sylvhania
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Fighting for Your Marriage
by Howard J.,et al Markman ()
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The two essentials of a lasting marriage, according to these articulate Ph.D.'s, are preventing problems and enhancing satisfaction.
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Posted: Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 12:22 pm by Sylvhania
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Don’t You Dare Get Married Until You Read This! The Book of Questions for Couples
by Corey Donaldson (2001-05-22)
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The Book of Questions for Couples. Many of these lists of probing questions are about sexuality, which, the author found, is often a bigger problem in marriage than most people are comfortable admitting.
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Posted: Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 9:20 pm by Sylvhania
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After the Thin Man
by W.S. Van Dyke (2007-08-07)
Warner Home Video (112 minutes)
average customer review: (36)
Selma asks Nick to find her missing husband. He had been seeing a bit on the side, and blackmailing a local criminal. David Graham claims he paid the missing husband to get rid of a former girlfriend. Will Nick locate him?
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Posted: Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 8:18 pm by Sylvhania
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Factory Girl
by George Hickenlooper (2007-07-17)
The Weinstein Company (90 minutes)
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Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.
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Posted: Saturday, October 4, 2008 at 4:20 pm by Sylvhania
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The Frumious Bandersnatch
by Ed McBain ()
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Tamar Valparaiso, would-be hip-hop diva, is poised on the precipice of stardom. Her new video is set for release, and her recording company has rented a yacht for a chic launch party.
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Posted: Friday, October 3, 2008 at 5:02 pm by Sylvhania
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