Dawson’s Creek - The Complete Fifth Season
Thursday, June 09, 2005
ASIN: B0007V6IW6
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Although they went their separate ways at the end of last season, the gang, plus Grams, end up in Boston for the fifth season of Dawson’s Creek. Joey studies at Worthington College, and she gets involved with her professor, gets mugged, and sings in bars. Jack and Jen go to the nearby Boston Bay College. Jack gets accepted into a fraternity, abandons his old friends, and stops studying. Jen gets involved with a guy who ends up cheating on her, volunteers at the college radio station, and goes out with Dawson. Dawson, who went to film school in California for the summer, returns to the east coast because he didn’t like it out there. Then he stays in Boston after the death of his father, going to the local film school and directing a movie. Pacey’s boat docks in Boston, and he stays too when he finds a job as a cook in a local restaurant.
National Treasure
Thursday, May 12, 2005
ASIN: B00005JN5E
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Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) is on the search for treasure of the Knights Templar, the location of which is a secret passed down from his ancestors. He enlists the help of Ian Howe (Sean Bean). When they realize that the clues lead to a map at the back of the Declaration of Independence, Ian offers to steal the document. Ben didn’t want to ruin the declaration, so Ian tried to kill Ben and steal it for himself. Now Ben has to steal the Declaration of Indepence first, before Ian gets to it. Diane Kruger, Riley Poole, and Jon Voight also star.
Dawson’s Creek - The Complete Fourth Season
Sunday, April 03, 2005
ASIN: B0002RQ3MK
IMDB Link: here
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It’s the gang’s last year at Capeside High. Pacey and Joey have to come back from their romantic sailing trip and face Dawson. Besides being a jerk, Dawson bonds with an old man, and goes out with Pacey’s sister. Jen gets dumped by Henry. Andie gets accepted into Harvard and leaves the show halfway through the season. Jack gets injured playing football and turns to coaching soccer. All of them worry about college and what’ll happen after graduation. There are a couple of new characters - Drue, the trouble maker, Gretchen, Pacey’s sister, and Mr. Brooks, an old retired movie director.
13 Going On 30
Sunday, April 03, 2005
ASIN: B0002C4JI0
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Jenna Rink is an awkward teenager who wants to be in with cool and popular girls. On her 13th birthday, after being humiliated in front of her “friends”, she wishes that she could be 30, flirty, and thriving. The next thing she knows, her wish is granted and she finds herself waking up 17 years later in a strange apartment. Only she finds out that the life that she wished for when she was 13 was not the life that she really wanted. The 30 year old Jenna is played by Jennifer Garner, and her best friend from elementary school, Matt, is played by Mark Ruffalo.
Shrek 2
Monday, March 28, 2005
ASIN: B00005JMQZ
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Shrek 2 is the sequel to the animated movie Shrek. Shrek and Fiona are now married. They get an invitation Fiona’s parents, the king and queen of a land Far, Far Away. Donkey tags along with them when they go to visit. Shrek and Fiona’s appearance as ogres cause quite a stir with Fiona’s parents and every one else in the land, including Fiona’s fairy godmother. She plots to replace Shrek with a more suitable Prince Charming.
Maya
Friday, March 25, 2005
ASIN: 0753811464
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Maya is a book about an evolutionary biologist called Frank, whose young daughter died in an accident. The death caused Frank and his wife to separate. Frank then went to visit an island in Fiji, where he met an extraordinary group of people, including a Spanish couple and an English writer. They talk about life, death, philosophy, and the meaning of the universe.
The Last Juror
Sunday, January 09, 2005
ASIN: 044024157X
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Willie Traynor is a young journalist who takes over the local paper in Clanton, Mississipi in 1970. The previous owners of the paper went bankrupt, and within a few years Willie managed to turn it around and increase its readership. Willie Traynor had to report on the brutal murder and rape of a young black widow. The perpetrator belonged to a dangerous and reclusive family in those parts. The book is mainly about the trial, Willie’s gradual acceptance into Clanton, the separation between blacks and whites at the time, and Willie’s friendly relationship with a black woman named Callie Ruffin.
The Lovely Bones
Sunday, January 09, 2005
ASIN: 0316168815
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Susie Salmon is a 14 year old girl who got raped and killed by her next door neighbour. Only parts of her body were found, and murderer was unknown. The story is told from her point of view as she is in heaven and looks down on her family and friends as they try to deal with the loss. Susie is stuck in heaven, still at 14 years of age, as her family grows and moves on.
Groovitude
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
ASIN: 0740728946
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Groovitude is the first Get Fuzzy comics treasury in colour. It contains comics from two books - The Dog Is Not a Toy: House Rule #4 and Fuzzy Logic Get Fuzzy 2.