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Humorist Writer, David Sedaris' "When You Are Engulfed in Flames"

Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. Sedaris, king of the poignantly absurd, triumphs in this sixth essay collection (after 2004's Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim).

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LARGE, DAZZINGLY IRIDESCENT FOSSIL AT AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY -NOW ON DISPLAY!

Luis Dreiser, 9, and Leonye Dreiser, 12, from Cologne, Germany admire the American Museum of Natural History's latest acquisition, an 80-million-year-old ammonite. The spectacular coloration is the result of millions of years of high temperatures and pressures acting on the animal's shell to create a gemstone known as an ammolite. The fossil was donated to the Museum by Korite International and Canada Fossils Ltd. Photo Credit: Denis Finnin/AMNH

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Adrienne Mayor, a folklorist and historian of ancient science, investigates the link between mythical creatures and the fossil remains of extinct animals at The American Museum of Natural History

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Toussaint Louverture: A Biography

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Richard Bernstein: Global Insights for Individual Investors

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Art/ Science Collision: Taxidermy Curiosities

Takeshi Yamada, award-winning artist and visual anthropologist, carries on the 19th-century tradition of “gaffs”

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Bruce Dern

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Chicago's Spoken Rhythm Artist Frank Pete

Frank Pete, President of For tha Love Of the Art Record Company is Hosting his own Television Show in Chicago

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Cooking

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Hu Hua, Book 1 (Forbidden Scripture)

writer of Chinese novels and screenplays, was born in Taishan, Kwongtung, China. He grew up in Hong Kong, received his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Maryland and his Master’s in Asian Studies from Seton Hall University. He was a reporter, editor, and feature columnist for Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong and New York City (deputy editor-in-chief 1977-1985, China Daily News, USA; editor-in-chief 1985-1986, The China Post, USA). He is credited and known for his martial arts screenplays: “Swordsman II”, “Once Upon a Time in China II” (both played by Jet Li), and a Chinatown gang novel titled, “The City of Knife”. “Hua Hu” is Hanson Chan’s first of a series of action novels on Chinese martial arts. Hua Hu, Book I: The Forbidden Scripture; and Hua Hu, Book II: The Thunder Spell have been simultaneously published in English and Chinese. He lives with his wife, Lan, in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.

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Martin Short

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Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis

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The World Tilts East

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Meet The Culinary Entrepreneurs

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Michael Chabon

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Joseph Franz: A Renaissance Man in the Twentieth Century

Book talk on Jo F. Humphrey's latest publication, Joseph Franz: A Renaissance Man in the Twentieth Century. There is no charge for this talk, but reservations are suggested.

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Investing in the Second Home Boom

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Witches, Rakes, and Rogues: True Stories of Scam, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in Boston, 1630-1775.

Mr. Simons is a graduate of Boston University and the author of two previous books. He is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and currently serves as Executive Director of The New England Historic Genealogical Society.

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Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles

Celebrated editor and fellow Englishwoman Tina Brown, who knew Princess Diana personally, shows us that the key to what really made Diana tick was found in the women in her life. Ms. Brown will share information about some of the important women in Diana's life, from her sexually charged mother to the ultimate "other woman," Camilla Parker-Bowles. Pre-Order A Signed Copy

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Jaimee Waxman: Sexy Jewish Women

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