From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. [Signature]Reviewed by Nina PlanckMichael Pollan is the crack investigator and graceful narrator of the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrial agriculture. Now he has a peer. Novelist Kingsolver recounts a year spent eating home-grown food and, if not that, local. [...]
This complete, standalone, fantasy roleplaying game takes your fantasy campaigns to new heights of adventure! Backward-compatible with 3.5 fantasy rules but offering new solutions and options that place it firmly on the cutting edge, the Pathfinder RPG is the culmination of the largest open public playtest in RPG history. The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game [...]
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Handler proves the adage that just because one can, doesn’t mean one should. This applies to both her role as a writer and a narrator. In this disjointed collection of memories and experiences, even her overenthusiastic voice cannot compensate for the irrelevance and frivolousness that [...]
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“Orwell’s best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism.” — AudioFile
“Orwell’s best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism.” –AudioFile
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its [...]
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“One of the funniest books I’ve ever skimmed!”–Paul Rudd”David has composed a fascinating list of the most obscure names in Atlanta baseball history, and filled the spaces between with some stuff. I don’t always agree with him, but he always makes me think and smile and, [...]
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Opening with a cute story from when she was seven and photographed her parents having sex, stand-up comedian Handler goes on to discuss the virtues of the one-night stand, which amount to having sex early enough so you’re not months into a relationship before you [...]
Amazon.com ReviewBook Description Official Book Club Selection is Kathy Griffin unplugged, uncensored, and unafraid to dish about what really happens on the road, away from the cameras, and at the star party after the show. (It’s also her big chance to score that coveted book [...]