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Top CDs Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Bruce's best essay on the forgotten majority: folks that success leaves behind.
Santana
- Supernatural
Customer review: "Supernatural makes me hope for the day that Carlos teams up with Sting..."
Joined in the studio by contemporary chart-toppers like Dave Matthews, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Everlast, Eagle Eye Cherry, and Eric Clapton, Santana's fluid and fiery guitar blends with Afro-Cuban percussion and soul-filled hip-hop for an exhilarating exhibition of multi-culturalism. The percussions are Latin perfect throughout the CD. Santana's guitar playing is always present and commanding as he weaves in and out of ballads, punches up hip-hop numbers, and stretches through his own style. No black magic, just sheer talent.
Carly Simon
- The Best of Carly Simon
Today's
rock
The Sebadoh
- Sebadoh
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
Top Non-Fiction
"An eye-popping shelf-scraper...an elevating experience." (Gene Shalit, Today)
Rising majestically above the hubbub of crowded cities or standing in stately solitude against a natural backdrop, skyscrapers captivate the eye, excite the imagination, and inspire awe and reverence. Wonders of artistic creativity and engineering ingenuity, of hard work and playful dreaming, they embody the best of our practical achievements and reflect our highest aspirations.
The Selling of the President
by Joe McGinniss
Sci-fi
John Shirley - Really, Really,
Really, Really Weird Stories
John Shirley - Black Butterflies: A
Flock on the Dark Side
John Shirley - Wetbones
John Shirley - Silicon Embrace
Four novels from the principal screenwriter of the cult classic film, The Crow
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Bestsellers
William Safire
- Scandalmonger
- Through this historic novel set in 1790s New England, Safire
demonstrates that a scandal seeking function is not unique to the modern press, but was
alive and well in the era immediately following the Revolutionary War. Almost everyone
knows the historical legacy of Hamilton, Jefferson, Monroe, Adams and Madison, but this
book reminds us that even our founding fathers were susceptible to the weaknesses for
which we condemn our current leaders.
Duels, stolen letters, written admissions of guilt, peculation, and pecadillos, these bits are all true. The Alien and Sedition act, one of the most notorious pieces of legislation in our Country's History plays a prominent role. Add then murder, wrongful imprisonment, treason, and trials with "The Hanging Judge" Samuel Chase. - The Simple
Truth by David Baldacci
Donald E. Westlake - Smoke
Due to a foiled burglary in a high-tech lab doing research for cigarette manufacturers, Freddie Noon, the thief, is now invisible. He uses his invisibility to escape the doctors and to make big scores in diamond and fur heists, but he soon discovers that being invisible is straining his relationship with Peg, his charming significant other. Meanwhile, a hilariously malevolent tobacco tycoon hatches a plan to subvert the Human Genome Project for the good of the tobacco industry... -
Stir Crazy 
Starring: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
Sidney Poitier
Director:
NTSC format
Color, HiFi Sound, NTSCA lot of goos laughs!
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor are two New York yoyos who try their luck in California and are accused of robbing a bank. Most of the laughs concern their survival strategies in prison (at one point, Wilder decides to "reach out and talk" to some hulking murderer) and their plans to escape. Both performers are so brilliant in any situation that they give this film plenty of funny moments (one or two of which became instantly classic).
Other formats: DVD - See No Evil,
Hear No Evil
STRANDED: The Secret History of
Australian Independent Music, by Clinton Walker
SCRAPS. Photographs by Michael Galinsky (book + CD)
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
A cyberpunk thriller
Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (Dark Materials, No 2)
Elegant, awe-inspiring, grand, glittering, magnificent. The Subtle Knife
offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero -
from our world - who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue (see The Golden
Compass [Dark Materials, No 1]) and whose destiny is every bit as shattering.
Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have
been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he
could erase himself, no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and
separate them.
"Succeeds most resonantly in reminding us that some fights are
good fights." (Gregory Maguire, New York Times Book Review)
Movies
Starring: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Kevin Spacey
Director: Arthur Hiller
NTSC format
Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, CX Encoding, NTSC
Very, very funny comedy about a deaf man and a blind man who inadvertently become murder suspects and take it on the lam, hoping to catch the real killers.Great performances by Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, and Kevin Spacey is a hoot with that mustache and accent.
Games
Build a simulated neighborhood and run - or ruin - the lives of the people that live there. Unlimited open-ended game play allows you to help your Sims develop and mature. Let your Sims pursue any of 10 possible career paths. Use the game's powerful architectural design tool to build dream homes for your Sims. Show off your neighborhood and your Sims on the World Wide Web.
SimCity
3000 Unlimited 
Create your own society.
franc'O'brain
& Transputer Qasar. 2002.
Email: francobrain@angelfire.com.
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