My Father, Maker of the Trees: How I Survived the Rwandan Genocide
by Tracey D. Lawrence, Eric Irivuzumugabe ()
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In 1994, 16-year-old Eric Irivuzumugabe climbed a cypress tree and remained there for 15 days without food or water. He wasn't trying to win a bet with his friends--he was attempting to save his life. Eric is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed the lives of 1 million people in just 100 days.
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Posted: Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 9:33 pm by Sylvhania
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Eckhart Tolle’s Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World
by Eckhart Tolle ()
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A two-day retreat at Findhorn, Scotland — famous as a spiritual center on the leading edge of personal and global transformation — offered an ideal showcase for Eckhart Tolle's transformative concepts.
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Posted: Friday, January 8, 2010 at 9:00 pm by Sylvhania
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Cashback
by Sean Ellis (2007-07-24)
Magnolia (102 minutes)
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(114)
After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
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Posted: Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 11:32 am by Sylvhania
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On Truth
by Harry G. Frankfurt (2006-10-31)
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(16)
With the same leavening wit and commonsense wisdom that animates his pathbreaking work On Bullshit, Frankfurt encourages us to take another look at the truth: there may be something there that is perhaps too plain to notice but for which we have a mostly unacknowledged yet deep-seated passion.
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Posted: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 4:27 pm by Sylvhania
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Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid
by Dr. Denis Leary (2009-10-27)
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Proudly Irish-American, defiantly working class, with a reserve of compassion for the underdog and the overlooked, Leary delivers blistering diatribes that are both penetrating social commentary with no holds barred and laugh-out-loud funny. As always, Leary's impassioned comic perspective in Why We Suck is right on target.
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Posted: Monday, January 4, 2010 at 1:34 pm by Sylvhania
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Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
by Gillian Tett ()
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Taking readers back to the invention of credit-derivative obligations (CDOs) at J. P. Morgan in 1994, and the subsequent exponential growth of that market, Tett deploys a remarkable sense of pacing, generating real suspense over rapidly inflating debt on bank balance sheets; by the time Lehman Brothers fails, the book has become a bonafide page-turner.
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Posted: Monday, January 4, 2010 at 1:10 pm by Sylvhania
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A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo
by Barry Spinello (2006-03-22)
Direct Cinema Limited (22 minutes)
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(5)
Bonnie Consolo is like any other suburban housewife and mother; she has children, she does groceries, and she's involved in the everyday concerns and activities that any other suburban housewife and mother engages in. With one difference; Bonnie does not have arms.
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Posted: Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 1:14 pm by Sylvhania
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Changeling
by (2009-02-17)
Universal Studios (141 minutes)
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A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day.
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Posted: Friday, January 1, 2010 at 9:47 pm by Sylvhania
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