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F My Life
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Enter the devastatingly funny world of F My Life, where calamity is comedy. Covering every disastrous pratfall in love, work, family-life, and more, F My Life proffers other people’s ruinous, real-life happenings to brighten your gloomiest day: someone getting dumped through a greeting card, ignored at their birthday party, or insulted by their own grandmother.
Dear Future Me: Hopes, Fears, Secrets, Resolutions
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Reading through the Dear Future Me letters is a sociological experiment, tapping into a culture obsessed with the future and all that it entails: self-improvement, anxiety, technological change–all in an increasingly global world. The letters in Dear Future Me are fascinating because they delve into the lives of ordinary people when they’re being really honest.
GarageBand ‘09 Power!
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This book provides an easy-to-understand, detailed guide for how to make professional-sounding music, podcasts, soundtracks, mixes, mashups, and much more. Through the use of screenshots, tutorials, real-world examples, and a conversational, personal tone, this book will teach you how to use GarageBand to create music, record and publish podcasts, or even score your own movie.
Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune
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Not another collection of checklists or tips on coupons or promotions, this practical guide teaches travelers — novice or seasoned — how to take advantage of travel opportunities by avoiding the typical tourist mentality. Author Tim Leffel shows readers how to bypass the traps that drive up expenses and find the best value, whether as a young backpacker or a wealthy retiree.
Mr. Skin’s Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked
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Looking for Celebrity Nudity? Fast Forward to the Good Parts with Mr. Skin’s Skincyclopedia. It compiles exhaustive information on more than two thousand starlets along with the films and TV shows in which you can witness them free of clothing.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
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This book is a homespun collection of photography, rural stories, and scrumptious recipes that have defined the author’s experience in the country. She shares many of the delicious cowboy-tested recipes she has learned to make during her years as an accidental ranch wife. All recipes are shown in full color, step-by-step detail, so it’s as easy as pie to follow along.
Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual
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Learn how to make the most of SketchUp’s tools and how to apply them to presentations and online sharing. The book introduces you to 3-D modelling, creating and animating a complicated model building, adding realistic material shading, and placing your model in Google Earth.
How to Travel Practically Anywhere
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If you’ve ever tried to find a sale fare you saw advertised for a flight, only to turn up much higher prices, or discovered that the hotel you booked wasn’t exactly “steps away from the ocean,” this book is a must. An essential guide for today’s traveler: time-saving tips to navigate, book, and troubleshoot your travel planning, on and off the Web.
Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined
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Urbandictionary.com is a wildly successful website that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most provocative phrases that define the modern slang scene.
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
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Veteran vagabond Potts regales readers with his mantra: anyone with an adventurous spirit can achieve the feat of taking extended time off from work to experience the world. In 11 short chapters that follow the same structure, Potts tells how to negotiate time off from work, prepare for travel, and get the most out of your time on the road.