Armed and Dangerous: The Hunt for One of America’s Most Wanted Criminals
by William Queen, Douglas Century (2009-07-28)
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ATF agent Queen seemed the only one likely to apprehend pot-grower and accomplished survivalist Mark Stephens in 1986. As polished by Century, Queen's rat-a-tat prose suggests the automatic weapons' fire Stephens had employed in "terrorizing the towns of California's Inland Empire" before relocating permanently to the wilderness.
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Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 8:13 pm by Sylvhania
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The Best American Travel Writing 2000
by ()
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Writers share a love of a place, a moment, a people. Culled from travel magazines and unlikely sources: Bill Buford plans to sleep overnight in Central Park, Dave Eggers remembers picking up hitchhikers in Cuba, Tom Clynes rides through the Outback, Mark Ross is kidnapped by rebels in Uganda, and others.
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Posted: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 5:30 pm by Sylvhania
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The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink (2008-12-30)
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Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
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Posted: Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 10:01 am by Sylvhania
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Life Laughs
by Jenny McCarthy ()
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(82)
Jenny speaks candidly about the challenges and the humor to be found in balancing motherhood and the ups and downs of marriage.
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Posted: Friday, September 25, 2009 at 10:58 pm by Sylvhania
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The Will to Live and Other Mysteries
by Rachel Naomi Remen ()
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Remen recounts her four decades of expertise with cancer patients, medical academia, and her own chronic illness. American culture worships science, yet experience has taught her that "the will to live" can't be explained this way.
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Posted: Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:05 pm by Sylvhania
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu ()
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Set over eight months in a gentrifying Washington, D.C., neighborhood in the 1970s, it captures an uptick in Ethiopian grocery store owner Sepha Stephanos's long-deferred hopes. Mengestu adds chiaroscuro with the story of Stephanos's 17-year exile from his family and country following his father's murder by revolutionary soldiers.
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Posted: Friday, September 25, 2009 at 1:00 pm by Sylvhania
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A Shot in the Dark
by Blake Edwards (2009-01-27)
MGM (Video & DVD) (102 minutes)
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When rich M. Ballon's spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first official on the scene. All evidence suggests Maria Gambrelli, the maid, to be the murderer. But Clouseau, being attracted to the beautiful girl, is convinced that she is hiding something.
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Posted: Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 9:59 pm by Sylvhania
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Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett (2002-04-30)
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When a mysterious lady asks Jeremy to make a clock that is perfectly timed, trouble begins it seems that such a clock would have the power to stop time completely. There would be no yesterday, no tomorrow, no next minute; in fact, everything and everyone would stop in its tracks.
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Posted: Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 12:30 pm by Sylvhania
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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert ()
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Charles is a stolid, kindhearted man without much ability or ambition. Emma is a beautiful, young woman who has a latent but powerful yearning for luxury and romance imbibed from the popular novels she has read. They marry, she cheats, she dies. Tragedy ensues. Daughter Berthe gets the short end of the stick.
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Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 4:16 pm by Sylvhania
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Baby Laughs
by Jenny McCarthy (2005-04-25)
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Jenny takes a no-holds-barred look at the joys, challenges, and humiliations of the first year of motherhood.
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Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 2:53 pm by Sylvhania
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