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by Arianne Cohen | Buy From Amazon.com  Do you know someone who's tall?
This book's for them.
Tall people:
Smart. Wealthy. Successful.
Presidents. Oscar winners. CEOs.
Scrunched into airplane seats. Unable to find good clothes. Why?
Arianne Cohen--all 6'3" of her--takes us on a tour of Tall World, traveling from endocrinologists' offices to the annual European Tall Club Convention, to unlock the mysteries at the center of talldom: Why do tall people succeed professionally, financially and intellectually? Why are tall men the most successful dating and mating group on earth, while tall women have low birth rates? And who the hell is behind those airplane seats?
Part investigation and part personal story, The Tall Book follows Arianne as she circles the globe, meeting the tallst people in the world, questioning them on how to raise a well-adjusted tall kid, and, yes, becoming one half of America's tallest couple.
Lively, witty and erudite, The Tall Book is a must-read for the tall and not-so-tall--or anyone searching for the secrets of living the high life.
On bookstore shelves and Amazon.com June 16, 2009 (Bloomsbury).
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The Book for People Who Live Some Place. 
Confessions of a High School Word Nerd is a collection of entertaining essays by those who know the SAT best, the diverse Ivy Leaguers who mastered it. Here, twelve Harvard and Yale grads honestly recount wild, traumatizing and hilarious high school events on the path to the Ivy League, using 1500 common SAT words in context. The words are bolded with the definitions at the bottom of the page, to help readers effortlessly memorize obscure vocabulary. From mortifying first kisses, vexing summer jobs and incompetent team captains, the essays are a fun, humorous way to study for the SAT.