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My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict’s Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is the New Black, or, a Culture-Up Manifesto

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My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addicts Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is the New Black, or, a Culture Up Manifesto

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It’s a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling leader of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on.

Readers have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration along the way. And she does so by any means necessary: reading canonical literature, viewing classic films, attending the opera, researching artisan cheeses, and even enrolling in etiquette classes to improve her social graces.

In Jen’s confront is a crack team of experts, including Page Six socialites, gourmet chefs, an opera aficionado, and a master sommelier. She may learn that well-regarded, high-priced stinky cheese tastes exactly as terrible as it smells, and that her like for Kraft American Singles is forever. But one thing’s for certain: Eliza Doolittle’s got nothing on Jen Lancaster-and failure is an option.Amazon.com Review

Jen Lancaster and Dave Barry: Leader One-on-One

The New York Times has pronounced Dave Barry “the most amusing man in America.” But of course that could have been on a slow news day when there wasn’t much else fit to print. Right, his bestselling collections of columns are legendary, but it is his wholly original books that reveal him as an American icon, like I’ll Mature When I’m Dead. He wrote for Humor Hotel and Jen Lancaster eventually took over his nationally syndicated humor column. Dave Barry Read on to see Dave Barry’s questions for Jen Lancaster, or turn the tables to see what he questioned her.

Dave: Which has a privileged IQ: gravel or the cast of Jersey Shore?

Jen: On the surface, gravel clearly seems to have the edge. Gravel’s managed to exist for thousands of years lacking ever once having ongoing a bar fight when a name looked at its Ed Hardy T-shirt amusing. But, after the episode where Pauly D. went swimming and emerged from under the water with every hair still firmly in place, I’m forced to declare Jersey Shore the winner. The kind of civil/compound engineering it takes to hold that ’do in place is nothing fleeting of genius.

Dave: What can we, as a nation, do about the Kardashians?

Jen: One word: caning.

Dave: Do you ever watch Dog the Gift Hunter? If so, do you agree that he would be a really fun United States senator?

Jen: I like Dog and judge he’d be a fantastic senator. He’s clever, he’s well-organized, he’s no-nonsense, and he’s not worried to knock a few heads together if needed. He’s exactly what this country needs. Plus, I’d like Mr. Dog to Go to Washington if for no reason additional than to see his wife dressed up like Jackie O while on the battle trail. (The caveat is I’m from Illinois and most of our living governors are felons, so it’s possible my standards aren’t terribly high.)

Dave: How come women are so excellent at appearing to not be thinking about sex?

Jen: Because we’re the ones in charge of doling it out, so there’s no guesswork involved on our part. Ergo, we can reflect about more vital stuff. Like handbags.

Dave: Like many men, I have four kinds of shoes: 1) black shoes, 2) brown shoes, 3) sneakers 4) backup sneakers. Do I need more? What should they be?

Jen: I reject the premise of this question because whereas most men own four pair of shoes, they own nine different kinds of hammers. Framing? Claw? Tack? Ball-peen? Any woman worth her salt knows that nearly all household repairs can be accomplished with one of two tools—a butter knife or the heel of a loafer. Jen Lancaster

Dave: Do you reflect ketchup has to be kept in the refrigerator? Why?

Jen: Yes, but less for food safety concerns and more because we don’t want to hurt the self-esteem of the additional condiments. (Mayonnaise can be so self-conscious.)

Dave: Are cats malicious, or really the spawn of Satan?

Jen: Um, cats are wonderful and loving small creatures who live to make us pleased, and they only barf in our shoes and scratch the bejesus out of our new ottomans and trip us at the top of the stairs to demonstrate exactly how special we are to them. They are in no way, shape, or form evil, meaning they would never trap me and both of my dogs in my office, causing me to send out cryptic interview answers hoping desperately the reader will properly interpret them and SEND HELP.

(Photo of Dave Barry © Raul Ribiera/Miami Indication)
(Photo of Jen Lancaster © Jeremy Lawson)

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Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney

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Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney

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Howard Sounes, the bestselling leader of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan and Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, turns his considerable reporting and storytelling skills to one of the most legendary, talented—and wealthiest—men alive: Paul McCartney.

Fab is the first exhaustive biography of the legendary musician; it tells Sir Paul’s whole life tale, from childhood to present day, from effective-class Liverpool beginnings to the cultural phenomenon that was The Beatles to his many solo incarnations.

Fab is the definitive portrait of McCartney, a man of contradictions and a consummate musician far more ruthless, ambitious, and temperamental than his relaxed public image implies. Based on original research and more than two hundred new interviews, Fab also reveals for the first time the full tale of his two marriages, romances, family tree feuds, phenomenal wealth, and complex relationships with his fellow ex-Beatles.

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Betty White 2011 Wall Calendar

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Betty White 2011 Wall Calendar

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Announcing the Betty White calendar for 2011, featuring twelve glorious months of Betty, the beloved actress, comedienne, and surprisingly hot-hot-hot celebrity. At age 88, Betty White has a hit show—Hot in Cleveland. Made Saturday Night Live amusing again when NBC gave her the guest-host spot at the urging of a 500,000-member Facebook battle. And starred, with Abe Vigoda, in the year’s #1 Super Bowl commercial (Snickers). She is classy, earthy, unassuming, a winner of multiple Emmy awards and an candid advocate for animal charities. And she’s got a fantastic sense of humor about herself. Now that’s our kind of pin-up girl.

Betty White’s royalties will support Morris Animal Foundation.

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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he plotted to collect as well as the art he would ruin: “degenerate” works he despised.
 
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, regularly exposed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.
Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world’s fantastic art from the Nazis.

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Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy

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Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy

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A riveting memoir of life inside one of North America’s most notorious polygamous cults.

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TRADITIONS of the NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS Vol.2

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TRADITIONS
OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS:
BEING
A SECOND AND REVISED EDITION
OF
“TALES OF AN INDIAN CAMP.”
BY
JAMES ATHEARN JONES.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

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The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 3.

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The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 3.

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From La Grange to Memphis the distance is forty-seven miles. There were no troops stationed between these two points, except a tiny force guarding a effective party which was engaged in repairing the railroad.

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The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Yellow Wallpaper

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This edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is based on the 1892 “New England Magazine” text of the tale. The edition includes a selection of documents designed to help students situate the tale in relation to Gilman’s time period and wide range of interests. Included are 19th-century advice manuals for young women and mothers; medical texts discussing the scenery of women’s sexuality; social reform literature concerning women’s rights; the effective classes, and immigration; and excerpts from periodicals, diaries, and writers notebooks that reflect the sense of the changing literary scene of the time.

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A Passion in the Desert

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A Passion in the Desert

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This is an electronic edition of the perfect book complemented by leader biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and additional electronic readers. It is formatted to spectacle on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and additional Mobile Devices with a tiny spectacle.

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A Young Girl’s Diary

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A Young Girls Diary

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THE best preface to this journal written by a young girl belonging to the upper middle class is a letter by Sigmund Freud dated April 27, 1915, a letter wherein the distinguished Viennese psychologist testifies to the stable value of the document: “This diary is a gem. Never before, I judge, has anything been written enabling us to see so clearly into the soul of a young girl, belonging to our social and cultural stratum, during the years of puberal renovate-ment. We are shown how the sentiments pass from the simple egotism of childhood to attain maturity; how the relationships to parents and additional members of the family tree first shape themselves, and how they gradually become more serious and more intimate; how friendships are formed and broken. We are shown the dawn of like, feeling out towards its first objects. Above all, we are shown how the mystery of the sexual life first presses itself abstractedly on the attention, and then takes entire possession of the growing intelligence, so that the child suffers under the load of secret knowledge but gradually becomes enabled to shoulder the burden. Of all these things we have a description at once so charming, so serious, and so natural, that it cannot fail to be of supreme interest to educationists and psychologists.

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