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The Tao of Warren Buffett
Buffett's investment strategies and life philosophies are revealed in this easy-to-read collection of sayings, some of which have never been seen before. The perfect gift for everyone on your list: from serious investors to over spenders, Warren Buffett can teach everyone a few secrets of success.
Category:FinanceReads:85Uploaded:05 / 24 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionNow a Major Motion Picture: Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Now a Major Motion Picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism—when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments— are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol’s funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors—experts on security, technology, currency, finance and a few sexual partners—as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future. Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.
Category:Books - FictionReads:27Uploaded:05 / 24 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionThe Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited
Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted (and best-paid) writers of stories and novellas. In The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, the country's premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, assembles a sparkling collection that encompasses the full scope of Fitzgerald's short fiction. The forty-three masterpieces range from early stories that capture the fashion of the times to later ones written after the author's fabled crack-up, which are sober reflections on his own youthful excesses. Included are classic novellas, such as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," as well as a remarkable body of work he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks." These stories can be read as an autobiographical journal of a great writer's career, an experience deepened by the illuminating introductory headnotes that Matthew Bruccoli has written for each story, placing it in its literary and biographical context. Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless. As Malcolm Cowley once wrote, "Fitzgerald remains an exemplar and archetype, but not of the 1920s alone; in the end he represents the human spirit in one of its permanent forms." This essential collection is ample testament to that statement, and a monument to the genius of one of the great voices in the history of American literature.
Category:Books - FictionReads:122Uploaded:05 / 22 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionHappily Ever After
Eleanor Bee is sure about 3 things: she wants to move to London; she wants to be able to afford her coffee; & she doesn’t believe in happy endings. Fast forward 10 years later, and life has changed more than she can imagine.
Category:Chick LitReads:84Uploaded:05 / 22 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionDAN GETS A MINIVAN: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad
The least hip citizen of Brooklyn, Dan Zevin has a working wife, two small children, a mother who visits each week to “help,” and an obese Labrador mutt who prefers to be driven rather than walked. How he got to this point is a bit of a blur.
Category:Books - Non-fictionReads:140Uploaded:05 / 22 / 2012ShareAdd to collection"People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water:" A Wyoming story from CLOSE RANGE by Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love.
Category:Books - FictionReads:24Uploaded:05 / 22 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionDear Know It All - Read All About It Excerpt
Every middle-school girl has questions about her future, but to star school newspaper reporter Samantha Martone, getting the scoop is her life. Sam plans to travel the world someday as a journalist, and in the meantime she’s thrilled that her newspaper adviser, Mr. Trigg, has chosen her for a special gig: For the next year, she’ll be the school’s anonymous advice columnist.
Category:Children's LiteratureReads:45Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionMiracle by Elizabeth Scott - Extended Excerpt
Megan is a miracle. At least, that’s what everyone says. Having survived a plane crash that killed everyone else on board, Megan knows she should be grateful just to be alive. The truth is, she doesn’t feel like a miracle. In fact, she doesn’t feel anything at all. Then memories from the crash start coming back. Scared and alone, Megan doesn’t know who to turn to. Her entire community seems unable—or maybe unwilling—to see her as anything but Miracle Megan, except for Joe, the beautiful boy next door with a tragic past and secrets of his own. All Megan wants is for her life to get back to normal, but the harder she tries to live up to everyone’s expectations, the worse she feels. This time, she may be falling too fast to be saved....
Category:Young AdultReads:33Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionEasy Italian menu from Giuliano Hazan! Sausage Fusilli and a delicious salad.
Why not have a cozy night in with these two delicious recipes from Giuliano Hazan's EVERY NIGHT ITALIAN. Fusilli with Sausage and Leeks followed by Mushroom, Arugula, and Parmesan Salad. Buon Appetito!
Category:Recipes/MenusReads:524Uploaded:05 / 21 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionGrilling for Life Excerpt
Equipment Grilling is the most basic method of cooking there is. It dates back to the time of cave men—food plus fire equals good. So those are your two essential elements, your grill and your ingredients. But there are a few other things that you need to refine your grilling (and eating) experience. Make sure that you have the right ingredients, the right equipment and, of course, the right recipe. I'll supply you with the recipes. As for equipment, my advice is to keep it simple. I don't buy
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