Title: “Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom”

Author: Jennifer Holland

Rank: 68

Blurb: “Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster.”

Review: “I have to say that this may not be a book for sensitive children. One story is about a lioness who (unbelievably) adopts a baby Oryx, caring for it as if it were her own cub. As she is resting, weak with starvation from refusing to leave it, the Oryx wanders off, when a male lion ‘snatched it up’. She ‘sniffed the blood of her baby in the grass’ and helplessly watched the male ‘devour it’.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting”, by Rachel Shteir

Footnote: Tell us the one about the scorpion and the frog.

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Title: “Of Thee I Zing: America’s Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots”

Authors: Laura Ingraham and Raymond Arroyo

Rank: 48

Blurb: “While Laura Ingraham was walking through a Northern Virginia shopping mall one Saturday afternoon, it all became clear to her. Everywhere she turned, she saw signs of the impending disaster: zombie teens texting each other across a café table; a man having his eyebrows threaded at a kiosk; a fiftyish woman shoe-horned into a tube top and skinny jeans; and a storefront ad featuring a Victoria’s Secret model spilling out of her push-up bra and into the faces of young passersby.”

Review: “Watch any old movie from the 30’s, 40’s or 50’s and everyone is wearing dresses, suits, ties, etc. Very few flip-flops, tank tops and tattoo’s. And we are getting numb to vulgarity.”

Customers Also Bought: “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, by Mark Steyn

Footnote: Speaking from experience, we’re inclined to agree: Life was better before AM radio was polluted by the likes of Laura Ingraham.

Of Thee I Zing [Fuck Amazon]

Title: “Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times”

Author: Jon M. Huntsman (Senior)

Rank: 8,009

Blurb: “The man who revolutionized the world by giving it the plastic spoon, fork, knife and Styrofoam take-out food container will once again change how you live your life.” —Glenn Beck

Review: “One of my new found favorite quotes is ‘Values provide us with ethical water wings.'”

Customers Also Bought: “Make Your Own Rules: A Renegade Guide to Unconventional Success”, by Wayne Rogers and Josh Young

Footnote: So Dad’s a self-made billionaire? That’s more interesting to us than Junior being Mitt’s Mormon understudy.

Winners Never Cheat [Fuck Amazon]

Title: “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far”

Authors: Bristol Palin and Nancy French

Rank: 1,125

Blurb: “The oldest daughter of Sarah Palin and single mother goes beyond the headlines, offering readers an inside look at her life, her world, and the things that matter most, including her family and the faith that keeps her centered.”

Review: “Bristol’s credibility is further damaged by how she paints herself as the innocent victim in every situation. Everyone’s out to get her and her family. It was extremely tiresome by the end of the book. This was a book filled with whining, complaining, and grievances galore. Bristol assumes the absolute worst about everyone she encounters, yet wants the reader to assume the best about her.”

Customers Also Bought: “Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs”, by Levi Johnston

Footnote: Fuck Amazon.

Not Afraid of Life [Fuck Amazon]

Title: “The Original Argument: The Federalists’ Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 4

Blurb: “Adapting a selection of these essential essays — pseudonymously authored by the now well-documented triumvirate of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay — for a contemporary audience, Glenn Beck has had them reworked into ‘modern’ English so as to be thoroughly accessible to anyone seeking a better understanding of the Founding Fathers’ intent and meaning when laying the groundwork of our government.”

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Title: “Go the Fuck to Sleep”

Authors: Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés

Rank: 1

Blurb: “Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s verses perfectly capture the familiar — and unspoken — tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night.”

Review: “How sad that this is found to be entertaining to people. People wonder why there are foul-mouthed kids running around? Moral decay is right… I would never buy this or have it in my home. We actually find better ways to express ourselves other than using the F* word… it is actually ignorant to use that all the time.”

Customers Also Bought: “Monsters Eat Whiny Children”, by Bruce Eric Kaplan

Footnote: What? You haven’t heard Sam Jackson read it yet?

Go the Fuck to Sleep [Amazon]

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Title: “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America”

Author: Ann Coulter

Rank: 3

Blurb: “The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs — it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.”

Review: “She is absolutely correct in targeting the French Revolution as the polluted source of Leftism and the violence and degeneracy that inevitably follow.”

Customers Also Bought: “Through My Eyes”, by Tim Tebow

Footnote: We’re trying to remember the last time Ann Coulter was relevant. Was Bubba still President?

Demonic [Amazon]

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