Bitter is the New Black
by Jen Lancaster (2006-03-07)
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Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb. This is the smart-mouthed, soul-searching story of a woman trying to figure out what happens next when she's gone from six figures to unemployment checks and she stops to reconsider some of the less-than-rosy attitudes and values she thought she'd never have to answer for when times were good.
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Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 11:28 pm by Sylvhania
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Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System
by Norah Vincent ()
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Struggling with the “psycho-emotional” conflicts of being a woman living as a man for her last book, Self-Made Man (2006), Vincent checked herself into the psychiatric ward of a hospital. While there, she found inspiration for her next immersion-journalism experience.
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Posted: Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 5:03 pm by Sylvhania
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Twinkie, Deconstructed
by Steve Ettlinger (2008-02-26)
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Twinkies: what exactly are their ingredients and how did they come from places like Minnesota and Madagascar to be made into "the uber-iconic food product, the archetype of all processed foods."
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Posted: Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 7:15 pm by Sylvhania
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The Five Wishes
by Gay Hendricks (2012-05-16)
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You never know when it is going to happen when you will experience a moment that dramatically transforms your life. When you look back, often years later, you may see how a brief conversation or an insight you read in a book changed the entire course of your life. Gay Hendricks had an extraordinary, lifealtering experience during a conversation at a party.
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Posted: Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 7:12 pm by Sylvhania
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Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard ()
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Arcadia is a brilliantly inventive play that moves back and forth between centuries, populated by a varied and vastly entertaining cast of characters who discuss such topics as the nature of truth and time, the difference between the classical and the romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life-according to the author, "the attraction which Newton left out."
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Posted: Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 7:08 pm by Sylvhania
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