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What to Expect When You’re Expected: A Fetus’s Guide to the First Three Trimesters

by David Javerbaum  (2009-10-13)
average customer review:  4.2 out of 5 stars  (21)

David Javerbaum has won nine Emmys and two Peabody Awards for his work as Writer, Head Writer and Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Then he wrote this baby book.

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Posted: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 1:46 pm by Sylvhania
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Tokyo Godfathers

by Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya  (2004-04-13)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (92 minutes)
average customer review:  4.7 out of 5 stars  (76)

Christmas in Tokyo, Japan. Three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum. While foraging through some trash, they find an abandoned newborn.

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Posted: Monday, August 15, 2011 at 9:53 am by Sylvhania
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Animal-Speak: Understanding Animal Messengers, Totems, and Signs

by Ted Andrews  ()
average customer review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  (8)

Andrews presents an audio workshop to help listeners identify, access, and understand their own animal spirits. Filled with teaching stories collected from almost thirty years of presenting this material to students across the world.

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Posted: Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10:14 pm by Sylvhania
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The Last Time

by Michael Caleo  (2007-07-10)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (96 minutes)
average customer review:  3.9 out of 5 stars  (13)

A salesman rediscovers a lust for life after falling for the fiancée of his new business partner, a Midwest transplant finding his footing in New York City.

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Posted: Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 9:45 pm by Sylvhania
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Alien Hunter

by  (2003-10-28)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (92 minutes)
average customer review:  3.6 out of 5 stars  (18)

An alien black box is found in the South Pole, where a government agency is conducting botanical experiments.

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Posted: Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 10:09 am by Sylvhania
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Kurt and Courtney

by Nick Broomfield  (1999-09-28)
Fox Lorber  (95 minutes)
average customer review:  3.2 out of 5 stars  (89)

A documentary on the life of Kurt Cobain and his relationship with Courtney Love.

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Posted: Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 5:55 pm by Sylvhania
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Tekkon Kinkreet

by Michael Arias  (2007-09-25)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (111 minutes)
average customer review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  (71)

Treasure Town, a scabrous metropolitan slum so gritty it makes the viewer want to clean under his fingernails. Orphans White and Black share an existence at the fringes of an already marginalized subculture.

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Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 5:41 pm by Sylvhania
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If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t)

by Betty White  (2011-05-03)
average customer review:  4.0 out of 5 stars  (62)

Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White's wit and wisdom take center stage as she tackles topics like friendship, romantic love, aging, television, fans, love for animals, and the brave new world of celebrity.

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Posted: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:25 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Books, Listened to

The Sky Crawlers “Sukai Kurora”

by Mamoru Oshii  (2009-05-26)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment  (122 minutes)
average customer review:  3.4 out of 5 stars  (51)

A group of eternally young fighter pilots known as Kildren experience the sudden loss of innocence as they battle the enemy in astonishing dogfights above the clouds.

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Posted: Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 8:57 pm by Sylvhania
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Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

by Jane McGonigal  (2011-01-20)
average customer review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  (68)

People who spend hours playing video or online games are often maligned for “wasting their time” or “not living in the real world,” but McGonigal argues persuasively and passionately against this notion in her eminently effective examination of why games are important.

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Posted: Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 10:16 pm by Sylvhania
Filed under: Books, Listened to

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