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1) Slacker
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When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
2) Slacker
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Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants.
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Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the back wall--and all Cameron wants to do is to conquer the...
5) City Slacker
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Amanda (Fiona Gillies - Casualty, Waking the Dead) is a city high flyer who has it all, and what she doesn't have she gets, in this fresh and hilarious romantic comedy. For Amanda life is perfectly on track. She's climbed the corporate ladder, has an equally successful city executive on her arm and a family is in the diary — eggs frozen and ready, naturally.
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Let's face it. Most of us are clueless at praying. Why is that? And how come we've never done anything about it? Let's face it. Most of us are clueless at praying. Why is that? And how come we've never done anything about it? In Confessions of a Prayer Slacker, author Diane Moody traces her own personal prayer journey with a touch of humor and a healthy dose of transparency. ''I want my readers to stop the merry-go-round of prayerlessness, quit acting...
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This Digital Exclusive collects 100 pages of Jughead's best slacker stories! When the going gets tough, Jughead gets going-to the nearest couch! School is in session, and Riverdale's laziest teenager is ready to give you the ultimate guide to goofing off. Learn how to nap correctly, how to avoid work, how to bum money off your friends, and more! Settle down and check out 100 pages of Jughead's laziest (and funniest) moments!
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The tough journey from slacker to well-trained running a half marathon. The book is not only a journey of training but also an inner journey where passion, curiosity and motivation create great deeds. It is difficult when morning meetings are planned, colds that refuse to go away and children to be retrieved from preschool. How can you create a sustainable training where you hear your own voice doubt and say why the training is good for you. You get...
10) Ed spécial
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In an attempt to gain lowered expectations and extra time for tests, Edward fakes a special education designation.
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"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti. Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End has been described as a "Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P....
13) Hop
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Blending state-of-the-art animation with live action, Hop tells the comic tale of Fred, an out-of-work slacker who accidentally injures the Easter Bunny and must take him in as he recovers. As Fred struggles with the world's worst houseguest, both will learn what it takes to finally grow up.
15) The beach bum
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The adventures of a rebellious stoner Moondog, a beach bum and lovable rogue who lives life on his own terms.
17) American ultra
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Mike shares a small-town life with his girlfriend Phoebe. But Mike's sleepy world goes wild after he discovers that he's actually a CIA sleeper agent with lethal fighting skills, and the target of government hitmen. Mike, the ultimate slacker, transforms into an ultra-attacker as he and Phoebe fight to survive in this exhilarating adventure.
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The very timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt) and George (Pa Grape), who lacks self-confidence, are three lazy misfits who dream of putting on a show about pirates. With their own problems, this dream might not come true. But, they soon find themselves traveling back in time into the 17th century. They begin a quest to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant. Along the way, they learn about being pirates.