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Target Wine Cubes are just another reason why I love this retailer!

I would not call myself a wine snob. However, I do appreciate a good wine (particularly red). I want a wine that goes down easily and...

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Llama, Llama Red Pajama [2005, Viking, ISBN: 0-670-05983-8 Hardcover] by Anna Dewdney is a delightful and fun32-page children's rhyming book about a little llama who is going to bed.

Well, he's supposed...

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Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing [1972, Simon and Schuster, SBN: 671-65201-X Reinforced Edition] by Martin Gardner is a 96-page children's non-fiction book with lots of details about communication techniques....

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Autumn [1998, Pebble Books, Capstone Press, ISBN: 1-56065-783-9] by Gail Saunders-Smith is a 24-page children's picture book about Autumn. It has nice photographs of Fall scenes in nature with some featuring...

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Lights, Camera, Interaction Melissa & Doug Shape Sorter Box holds four scenes that can be slid out and also stored within the box.

This one has four scenes:

• transportation
• house
• farm
• pets

It also contains...

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Melissa & Doug Lights, Camera, Interaction Large Shapes Wooden Jumbo Knob Puzzle features eight brightly colored shapes:

• circle--with a picture of a clock behind it
• diamond--with a picture of a kite behind...

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Little Teddy Bear's Happy Face Sad Face: A First Book About Feelings [1998, The Millbrook Press] is a six page board book with four wooden bear faces with different feelings, including happy, sad, angry,...

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The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Snow [2004, Cartwheel Books by Scholastic, Inc., ISBN: 0-439-56990-7] by Joanna Cole with illustrations by Bruce Degen is a 32-page children's book about snow. It is a...

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One of the things I am thankful for is Viewpoints.

Yes, I'm one of the people who was asked in 2006 to be part of the Beta Testing team to launch this site, but I was an outsider... nowhere near the Chicago...

"Oh, and don't forget to pick up some hair conditioner", the lovely Mrs. Xeno calls after me as I leave the house to pick up a few small items at the store.  So, I realize that this $10 - $15 trip could...

Subject: The Prisoner 2009.  The good news:  AMC's new reboot of the classic, influential Patrick McGoohan series:  The Prisoner is pretty good.  Episodes 1, 2 and 5 are very enjoyable.  Ian McKellen...

The first thing that attracted me to this Cuisinart Thermal coffee maker was the look -- its simple stainless design is just gorgeous. But I know from experience that most of the time I get lulled into...

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 Film Geek is a movie based on an idea that 20 years ago might have made a good 20 minute short movie or SNL comedy sketch.   At 70 minutes, the 'cute' dated idea is stretched way too far and the film's...

Only 2 of the 15 songs on Grown Backwards are opera--well David Byrne's skewed version of opera, with the help of Rufus Wainwright.

Grown Backwards is a pastiche of influences and styles that seem to be...

"You know, I hate to advocate drugs liquor, violence, or insanity to anyone--but in my case it's worked."
-- Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) is a relentlessly anarchistic...