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Sudden Death — And How To Avoid It

This cheerful little tome hailing from 1935 was published by Simon and Schuster and if you didn’t want to shell out the 25 cents to avoid sudden death, you possibly could be the beneficiary of the largess of “traffic policemen, “ who might hand you a copy along with your citation. If you were extremely lucky, it might be “read aloud” to you “by judges.”

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A Shift in Real Estate Books - NYTimes.com

When the housing market was white-hot, publishers were tripping over themselves to pump out titles about buying property and making money in the real estate business. Now that the bottom has fallen out of the housing market publishers are rushing out newly acquired manuscripts to advise consumers who may have stumbled in the housing game.

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The 10 Most Terrifying Guides to Sex | Cracked.com

We're not saying sex is something to be ashamed of, and far be it from us to declare any activity between consenting adults to be unnatural. It's just that some types of sex are weird and even terrifying to us.

But, if you're going to do something that would make a dominatrix flinch, you might as well do it right. Thus we offer these sex guides that you'll either find helpful or nightmarish.

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Why Your Short Story Didn’t Make the Shortlist

Here is a very detailed list of what not to do if you’re trying to win a short story contest. These 27 points may be wounding, but they’re from a judge’s perspective, so pay attention here.

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Erotica for the evangelical set

The Globe and Mail has a story on sex books for religious people, inspired by Abebooks.com. Of the top 10 sex guides ordered by Abe Books users, five have religious or spiritual themes. Topping the list is Ed and Gaye Wheat's Intended for Pleasure: New Approaches to Sexual Intimacy in Christian Marriage.

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The Lazy, Snooze-button-Happy, Wait'Til The Last Minute Survivors Guide

This is a story of a man with three small kids who had to figure out how HE can take care of them, clothes, breakfast, etc and get HIMSELF ready for work. It is a humorous introspective of how it got done and how it CAN be done. This story is unique in its own right because of how it acknowleges our hectic lifestyle and giving pointers on how simple things can be done.

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