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Unseen Academicals

by Terry Pratchett  (2009-10-06)
average customer review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  (129)

Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchett's 37th Discworld novel (after 2007's Making Money), an affectionate satire on the foibles of sports and sports fans.

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Posted: Monday, May 31, 2010 at 7:33 am by Sylvhania
Filed under: Books, Listened to

The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano

by Margarita Engle  (2006-04-04)
average customer review:  4.8 out of 5 stars  (5)

In plain, stirring free verse, Engle dramatizes the boyhood of the nineteenth-century Cuban slave Juan Francisco Manzano, who secretly learned to read and wrote poetry about beauty and courage in his world of unspeakable brutality.

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Posted: Monday, May 10, 2010 at 10:02 pm by Sylvhania
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Creature

by William Malone  (2000-10-03)
Tgg Direct  (97 minutes)
average customer review:  2.9 out of 5 stars  (28)

A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artefacts of unknown origin. They discover that the Germans have already a ship there. They find only bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.

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Posted: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 3:31 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Film, Watched

The Realization of Being

by Eckhart Tolle  ()
average customer review:  4.6 out of 5 stars  (13)

Words are useful signposts, Eckhart begins, but our main spiritual teacher is stillness. This powerful energy field is always available to us through meditation.

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Posted: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 12:10 pm by Sylvhania
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