Name: Cool Tools
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Author: Kevin Kelly

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Cool Tools is an enormous book of nearly 1,500 different hand-picked items.  Each item is given a three to five page review that includes information on what the item does and why it’s a good thing.  Cool Tools also includes Cool Tools Jr. , Coolest Stuff On The Planet, a quarterly magazine with over 50 new tools in each issue. 

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Cool Tools

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Screenplay

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The Writer's Journey

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Save The Cat!

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Women in Clothes

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Coleen

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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

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Amazing Places Cost Nothing

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Other Men's Flowers

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Museum Legs

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