Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
by David Eagleman (2009-02-10)
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(113)
What happens after we die? Eagleman wonders in each of these brief, evocative segments. Are we consigned to replay a lifetime's worth of accumulated acts, as he suggests in Sum, spending six days clipping your nails or six weeks waiting for a green light? Is heaven a bureaucracy, where God has lost control of the workload?
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Posted: Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 5:42 pm by Sylvhania
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Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
by Kerry Cohen (2008-06-03)
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(89)
Despite the rather prurient title, Cohen's memoir is a deeply poignant, desperately sad account of a confused, directionless adolescent girl's free fall into self-abnegation. Growing up affluent in New Jersey in the 1980s and smarting from the recent breakup of her parents, 11-year-old Cohen begins to recognize the power her nubile body has over men.
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Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 at 7:32 am by Sylvhania
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Britten and Brulightly
by Hannah Berry (2009-03-17)
average customer review: (7)
Private detective Fernández Britten is an old hand at confirming the dark suspicions of jealous lovers and exposing ugly truths of all varieties. Battered by years of bearing ill tidings, he clings to the hope of revealing, just once, a truth that will do some good in the world. It is a redemption that has long eluded him.
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Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 8:29 pm by Sylvhania
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The Drowning Pool
by Stuart Rosenberg ()
(109 minutes)
average customer review: (10)
A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is being blackmailed.
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Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 10:31 am by Sylvhania
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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
by Alan Alda (2008-09-09)
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Picking up where his bestselling memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed left off–having been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile–beloved actor and acclaimed author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some impossible questions he’s asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? And what does that even mean?
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Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 9:15 pm by Sylvhania
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The Traveler
by Daren Simkin (2008-11-25)
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(13)
Once, there was a boy named Charlie. He had a pretty nice life . . . but it wasn’t perfect. So one day he packed up all his time—all his round, squishy years and square, mushy months, down to every itsy-bitsy second—in his suitcase and locked it up safe, said goodbye to his parents, and set off to find something better to spend his time on.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 8:24 pm by Sylvhania
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W.
by Oliver Stone (2009-02-10)
Lions Gate (129 minutes)
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(197)
Told in broken chronology, W. focuses on Bush’s post-9/11 path to waging a "preventive war" in Iraq despite no hard evidence of weapons of mass destruction to justify it.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 10:27 am by Sylvhania
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
by (2006-05-30)
Warner Home Video (113 minutes)
average customer review: (42)
A pompous lecturer is forced to spend the winter inside a prominent Ohio family's home due to injury and proceeds to meddle with the lives of everyone in the household.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 11:55 am by Sylvhania
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The Thief Lord
by Richard Claus (2006-03-14)
20th Century Fox (98 minutes)
average customer review: (43)
A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic leader, the Thief Lord.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 9:51 am by Sylvhania
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50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America
by Bill Novelli (2006-10-03)
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(7)
The book covers the dynamics of the baby boomer generation, what 50-plus looks like in today's world (it's not your father's 50), and the issues this age group cares most about in the second half of their lives--health-care initiatives, work-life opportunities, making a difference with philanthropy and volunteerism, furthering their education, and an important issue: how to pay for it all.
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Posted: Monday, May 18, 2009 at 4:35 pm by Sylvhania
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