Tuya’s Marriage “Tuya de Hun Shi”
by Wang Quan'an (2008-10-28)
Music Box Films Home Entertainment (86 minutes)
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(4)
Tuya, hardworking and hardheaded, is a Mongolian desert herder who refuses to be settled in a town in accordance with the new industrialization policy. The only way for the family to survive is for her to divorce her husband on paper and look for a new spouse who can take care of the whole family.
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Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 5:35 pm by Sylvhania
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Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t
by John R. Lott Jr. ()
average customer review: 
(115)
Entertaining, persuasive, and based on dozens of economic studies spanning decades, Freedomnomics not only shows how free markets really work--but proves that, when it comes to promoting prosperity and economic justice, nothing works better.
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Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 11:34 am by Sylvhania
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D. H. Lawrence ()
average customer review: (106)
No longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter: the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband.
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Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 9:47 am by Sylvhania
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Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh (2001-05-08)
average customer review: (167)
Harriet is determined to become a famous author. In the meantime, she practices by following a regular spy route each day and writing down everything she sees in her secret notebook. Her life is turned upside down when her classmates find her notebook and read it aloud!
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Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 10:01 pm by Sylvhania
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The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
by David Plotz (2006-10-10)
average customer review: (39)
Building on a series of articles he wrote for Slate, Plotz investigates the legacy of the Repository for Germinal Choice, a California sperm bank that was to have been stocked exclusively by Nobel laureates.
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Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 10:42 am by Sylvhania
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The Mile High Club
by Kinky Friedman (2001-08-28)
average customer review: (24)
On a plane from Texas to New York, the intrepid detective agrees to keep an eye on the little pink suitcase of his seatmate, the exotic Khadija Kejela. She never returns. Curious about the contents, Kinky and his PI pal, Rambam, force open the suitcase and find a plastic bag full of fake passports for possible Middle Eastern terrorists.
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Posted: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 3:08 pm by Sylvhania
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The Center of the Universe
by Nancy Bachrach (2009-04-28)
average customer review: (27)
Piquant and ribald, Bachrach's debut memoir about her dotty mother from Providence, R.I., revolves around the accidental gassing accident aboard her parents' boat in 1983 that left her father dead of exhaust asphyxiation and her mother with severe brain damage.
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Posted: Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:06 pm by Sylvhania
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
by Susan Butler ()
average customer review: (27)
This biography of Amelia Earhart is a mixed bag. Butler is not overawed by her subject; her text is readable, well documented, and insightful. She devotes far more attention, however, to Earhart's genealogy than to the central event of her life: her attempted round-the-world flight and mysterious disappearance.
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Posted: Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 4:42 pm by Sylvhania
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I Served the King of England “Obsluhoval Jsem Anglického Krále”
by Jirí Menzel (2009-02-17)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (120 minutes)
average customer review: (12)
Dreaming of becoming a millionaire a short but ambitious Czech works his way into a posh pre-war luxury spa where his marriage to a hitler-loving fraulein provides him with a golden opportunity to make his fondest wish come true.
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Posted: Friday, July 24, 2009 at 7:31 pm by Sylvhania
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by David Yates (2009-12-08)
Warner Home Video (153 minutes)
average customer review: 
(725)
As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
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Posted: Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 5:46 pm by Sylvhania
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