Wish You Well
by David Baldacci ()
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The year is 1940. After a car accident kills 12-year-old Lou's and 7-year-old Oz's father and leaves their mother Amanda in a catatonic trance, the children find themselves sent from New York City to their great-grandmother Louisa's farm in Virginia.
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Posted: Monday, June 29, 2009 at 9:37 am by Sylvhania
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The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare (2000-12-05)
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Comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced about 1593 and printed in the Folio of 1623. Considered one of Shakespeare's bawdier works, the play describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, who is determined to subdue Katharina's legendary temper and win her dowry.
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Posted: Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 9:30 am by Sylvhania
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How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer ()
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With Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has cornered the market on popular studies of human behavior. But Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide holds its own with Gladwell, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Dennett, and the host of science writers increasingly focused on the complexities of the human brain.
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Posted: Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 8:08 am by Sylvhania
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall (2009-05-05)
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From the depths of Mexico’s Copper Canyon to the heights of the Leadville Trail 100 ultramarathon in Colorado, from the centuries-old running techniques of Mexico’s Tarahumara tribe to a research lab at the University of Utah, author McDougall celebrates, in this engaging and picaresque account, humankind’s innate love of running.
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Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 4:30 pm by Sylvhania
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Blindness
by Fernando Meirelles (2009-02-10)
MIRAMAX (120 minutes)
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A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband as her surrounding community breaks down into chaos and disorder.
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Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 4:13 pm by Sylvhania
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson (2006-10-17)
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The Thunderbolt Kid was born in the 1950s when six-year-old Bryson found a mysterious, scratchy green sweater with a satiny thunderbolt across the chest. These are the memoirs of that Kid, whose earthly parents were not really half bad–a loving mother who didn't cook and was pathologically forgetful, and a dad who was the greatest baseball writer that ever lived.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 4:26 pm by Sylvhania
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The Herring-Seller’s Apprentice
by L.C. Tyler ()
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Ethelred Tressider is a mystery writer with problems, not the least of which is his incurably nosy, chocolate-chomping agent, who couldn't give two toffees for mystery novels. She does, however, have a passion for real-life mysteries, and that passion gets stirred up when Ethelred's ex-wife goes missing and Ethelred starts behaving in an extremely peculiar fashion.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 7:41 am by Sylvhania
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What Planet Are You From?
by Mike Nichols (2000-07-18)
Sony Pictures (105 minutes)
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A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help.
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Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 10:48 pm by Sylvhania
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi (2008-11-04)
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An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism and a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home.
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Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 12:15 pm by Sylvhania
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
by Gore Verbinski (2006-12-05)
Walt Disney Video (151 minutes)
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Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
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Posted: Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 5:57 pm by Sylvhania
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