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(0)Amy Sedaris
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English
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The New York Times bestselling craft guide that inspired the hit new TV show, At Home With Amy Sedaris
It's often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In Simple Times, Amy Sedaris sets the record straight and delivers a book that will forever change the world of crafting. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows that anyone with a couple of hours...
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English
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Wigfield is a small bucolic hideaway, situated in front of a massive dam which is about to be torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield's only hope lies in the self-righteous, self-involved "journalist" Russell Hokes, who arrives hoping to capture the quiet dignity of the disappearing American Small Town. However, Wigfield is nether quiet nor dignified. As the date of destruction draws nearer, Hokes casts about desperate...
4) Simple times
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Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Language
English
Description
With her special brand of humor, Sedaris shows how to make popular crafts, such as crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil balls, and crepe-paper moccasins; how to remember which kind of glue to use with which material; how to create your own craft room and avoid the most common crafting accidents; and, how to cook your own edible crafts, from a Crafty Candle Salad to Sugar Skulls, and many more recipes.
5) Snow Angels
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Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1974, 14-year-old Arthur Parkinson was coping with the first powerful, confusing yearnings of adolescence just as his parent's marriage was unraveling. It was that dark winter that he learned of the death of Annie Marchand, his former baby-sitter. Now, decades later and still haunted by the events of that winter, Parkinson tries to understand the interconnected personal stories, the power of unrestrained emotion and the price that...
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The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
James is a struggling actor, living with his widowed mother in Chicago, who wants three things in life: someone to love, a great part, and to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses a title acting role, and he sneaks out of an Overeaters Anonymous meeting only to wind up at an ice cream parlor. There, he meets Beth who quickly wins his heart, but will this cause James more problems than it solves? Or has he finally...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Now adults, Theodore Templeton and his estranged brother take a magical formula that transforms them into babies for 48 hours. Together, they must now go under cover to prevent an evil genius from turning fellow toddlers intro monstrous brats.
10) Holidays on ice
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English
Description
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the...
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Hachette Audio
Language
English
Description
In David Sedaris' world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris' collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses...
12) Barrel Fever
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Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Language
English
Description
In David Sedaris' world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris' collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.
Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern
...13) Chicken Little
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Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Chicken Little causes widespread panic when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. After the fall out, the youngster becomes determined to restore his reputation . But just as things are starting to go his way, a real piece of the sky lands on his head. Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends, Abby Mallard (aka Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter and Fish Out of Water, attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole...
14) Naked
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Language
English
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Description
In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me.
Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world.
15) The Lion King
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Publisher
Disney
Language
English
Description
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother, and former heir to the throne, has plans of his own.
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Series
Hot in Cleveland volume 10
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English
Description
As Victoria interviews the governor's candidly opportunistic wife, Elka goes on trial and attempts to sway the verdict by flirting with an elderly juror.
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Series
Hot in Cleveland volume 11
Language
English
Description
After Elka flees to escape her sentencing, the women find her in Amish country, where they meet Yoder, and Victoria embraces the simple life.
18) Beware the Gonzo
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English
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When the rebel-minded Gonzo (Ezra Miller) is ousted from his school paper by very-popular editor Gavin (Jesse McCartney), he teams with the mysterious Evie (Zoe Kravitz) to start his own paper and turn the social hierarchy on its head.
19) Ping Pong Summer
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English
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A fun, coming-of-age, summer vacation story starring Susan Sarandon and Lea Thompson. The year is 1985. Rad Miracle is a shy 13-year-old kid who's obsessed with two things: ping pong and hip hop. During his family's annual vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, Rad makes a new best friend, experiences his first real crush, becomes the target of local bullies, and finds an unexpected mentor in his outcast next-door neighbor.
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English
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Maid in Manhattan is the story of Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez), a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City who works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity, Marisa meets Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes), a handsome heir to a political dynasty who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Destiny throws the unlikely pair together for one night, but when Marisa's true identity...