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Big Shipments every week! Stop by today and check them out. WE HAVE THESE AND MANY MORE! (updated 10/27/11) ...
Rudnik, the witty, sardonic playwright (JEFFREY) and screenwriter (IN & OUT, ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES) has written an entertaining and acerbic memoir of his New Jersey childhood, coming of age in NY and an enduring adulthood in showbiz. Ianni loved!
Nick Hornby is one of my favorites! His novels are popular, accessible and good! And his latest is no exception - it is a big-hearted novel of obsessed music lovers (Annie & Duncan) whose love has gone lifeless, and the object of their obsession, a reclusive American musician named Tucker Crowe. JULIET, NAKED is quintessential Hornby - Likably bleak humor, pitch-perfect and achingly-real examination of relationships, rooted in music; overall it is engaging, entertaining and fun. Add JULIET, NAKEDD to your literary playlist! Ed highly recommends.
"I am not anti-technology. I am pro-human." And so begins YOU ARE NOT A GADGET, by one of the first visionaries in Silicon Valley, Jaron Lanier. This insightful and persuasive manifesto explores the dark side of cyber culture, information sharing, and democratized wisdom. Lanier argue that online anonymity, mob-like mentality, and group think issues are creating a homogenized culture that devalues the individual. Lanier's underlying belief is that we should work to shape technology to fit our needs, rather than let technology determine and shape us. This fascinating book leaves the reader cautiously optimistic and inspired. A must read for anyone interested in technology and current cultural trends. Shane highly recommends!
If you could be anybody, who would you be?? The three interwoven storylines of AWAIT YOUR REPLY add up to one burning question: who are you? Dan Chaon's new novel is hypnotic and suspenseful, crossbreeding the elements of horror and suspense with heartbreaking stories of lost souls and fractured families. He has said "there's a little bit of Hitchcock obsession ruinning through the whole book.") It explores the singularity of the self and the very idea of "I" - where identity is unstable and ephemeral, where lives are abandoned, frabircated, falsified and constantly reinvented.
Eula, Idaho, has never seen a battle, an earthquake, or a Democrat in City Hall. Yet life here is anything but simple. Lina's angry son Jesus has recently returned to the trailer park after living with wealthy white foster parents. Her younger son Enrique and his best friend, Gene--who lives in a neighboring trailer with his very Christian mother, Connie--are misfits who cling to their studies in the face of schoolyard cruelties. Determined to win the statewide science fair, Enrique and Gene devise an experiment involving "lake overturn," a phenomenon in which deadly gases erupt from a lake's depths. In their endeavor to discover if Eula could suffer from such an event, the boys come into contact with an odd assortment of locals--including a frail-hearted school principal with grand ambitions, a lonely lawyer who finds new love as his wife is dying, and a woman who decides to escape a life of exploitation and addiction by becoming a surrogate mother. With sweeping perspective and a Victorian wealth of character, Lake Overturn exposes small-town America in all its beauty and treachery, sunshine and secrets.!
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I SHUDDER by Paul Rudnick
JULIET, NAKED by Nick Hornby.
YOU ARE NOT A GADGET by Jaron Lanier
AWAIT YOUR REPLY by Dan Chaon
LAKE OVERTURN by Vestal McIntyre.|
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