The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
 The Obsession of Birding: Mark Obmascik has documented the "Big Year" of three extreme birders - Sandy Komito, Al Levantin and Greg Miller - as they try to beat a record and each other during 1998. This is more a sporting competition than [... more]
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Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
From Amazon.com: After years of dreaming of planting a garden, Mr. McGreely finally takes hoe and watering can in hand and makes his dream come true. Unfortunately for him (but luckily for readers), this is not the happily-ever-after part of the story. [... more]
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To The Races
From Amazon.com: In the early 1990s, Eric Bachmann achieved a modicum of success by playing decent, fun, and derivative indie rock that borrowed heavily from music that groups like Pavement, Versus, and Superchunk had made a year or two earlier. It's a [... more]
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Great Books Of The 20th Century Waiting For The Barbarians
A classic story: Waiting for the Barbarians is a fascinating story about a magistrate working for a dysfunctional and corrupt colonial empire that borders on the outskirts of the modern world.. With deep political undertones Coetzee's tale of man against [... more]
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest ...
From Amazon.com: A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. [... more]
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Pursuit of Happiness
Outstanding, authentic, and heartwarming: Excellent acting and good story. I had never heard of this movie until I picked up a discounted copy. But this movie is a blessing, telling the tale of man muddling through life and finally realizing that his [... more]
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest ...
From Amazon.com: Into Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob [... more]
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Waiting For the Barbarians
A classic story: Waiting for the Barbarians is a fascinating story about a magistrate working for a dysfunctional and corrupt colonial empire that borders on the outskirts of the modern world.. With deep political undertones Coetzee's tale of man against [... more]
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Into Thin Air
From Amazon.com: A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. [... more]
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest ...
From Amazon.com: A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. [... more]
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En attendant les barbares
A classic story: Waiting for the Barbarians is a fascinating story about a magistrate working for a dysfunctional and corrupt colonial empire that borders on the outskirts of the modern world.. With deep political undertones Coetzee's tale of man against [... more]
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Into Thin Air
From Amazon.com: "Intrinsically irrational" is how Jon Krakauer characterizes the compulsion to climb Mount Everest in his audiobook Into Thin Air. The highly publicized fates of the May 1996 Everest expeditions, including the tragic loss of 12 [... more]
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