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The Gods Must Be Crazy II

by Jamie Uys  (2004-02-03)
Sony Pictures  (205 minutes)
average customer review:  4.7 out of 5 stars  (187)

N!Xau returns to the bizarre world of the white man. The storyline begins with N!Xau searching for his lost children; he then gets sidetracked by subplots.

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Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 10:22 am by Sylvhania
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Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers

by Edward C. Smith  ()
average customer review:  4.2 out of 5 stars  (52)

Lifelong gardener Ed Smith became fascinated with the possibilities of self-watering containers and began testing dozens of vegetables in various containers, experimenting with nutrients, soil mixtures, plant varieties, and container positioning. Now anyone can grow and enjoy wonderful organic vegetables using self-watering planters.

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Posted: Monday, April 20, 2009 at 9:43 pm by Sylvhania
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Sikh Stories

by Anita Ganeri  ()
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Explore the Sikh religion in these collections of traditional tales. Stories have been used for many years to teach people about their faith in a way that makes complicated or difficult messages easier to understand.

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Posted: Friday, April 17, 2009 at 9:51 pm by Sylvhania
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Sikhism

by Kanwaljit Kaur-Singh  ()
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Explore the fascinating world of Sikhism and discover how Guru Nanak started one of the most popular religions in the world. Explore its art, find out about its famous followers, and learn about Sikh beliefs, traditions, and colorful festivals.

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Posted: Friday, April 17, 2009 at 6:38 pm by Sylvhania
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Where the Money Is

by  (2000-12-19)
Polygram USA Video  (89 minutes)
average customer review:  4.0 out of 5 stars  (17)

Carol Ann MacKay is a nurse at a retirement home. When bank robber Henry Manning is placed in her care, supposedly having lost all control over his body, she notices he must be in far better condition then he appears.

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Posted: Friday, April 17, 2009 at 10:27 am by Sylvhania
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Let’s Do It Again

by Sidney Poitier  (2004-01-13)
Warner Home Video  (110 minutes)
average customer review:  4.6 out of 5 stars  (45)

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order. However, their method for raising the money involves hypnotising a scrawny underdog boxer into a super-confident fighting machine.

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Posted: Friday, April 17, 2009 at 8:32 am by Sylvhania
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An Ideal Husband

by  (2000-01-18)
Miramax  (97 minutes)
average customer review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  (120)

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed.

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Posted: Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 10:35 pm by Sylvhania
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Killing Castro

by Lawrence Block  ()
average customer review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  (18)

Shortly before the Cuban missile crisis, Block donned a pen name to publish this absorbing yarn about five men vying for a $100,000 prize put on Fidel Castros head by a mysterious guy named Hiraldo.

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Posted: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 11:20 pm by Sylvhania
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The Forbidden Kingdom

by  (2008-09-09)
Lions Gate  (104 minutes)
average customer review:  3.8 out of 5 stars  (132)

A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King.

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Posted: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 1:24 pm by Sylvhania
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

by J. Maarten Troost  (2004-06-08)
average customer review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  (161)

At 26, Troost followed his wife to Kiribati, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific. Virtually ignored by the rest of humanity (its erstwhile colonial owners, the Brits, left in 1979), Kiribati is the kind of place where dolphins frolic in lagoons, days end with glorious sunsets and airplanes might have to circle overhead because pigs occupy the island's sole runway.

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Posted: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 11:35 am by Sylvhania
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