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Fresh Pick | THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES: THE FOUNDING OF FACEBOOK by Ben Mezrich
Fresh Pick / February 26, 2011

October 2010 On Sale: September 28, 2010 Featuring: Mark Zuckerberg; Eduardo Saverin 272 pages ISBN: 0307740986 EAN: 9780307740984 Paperback (reprint) $12.00 Add to Wish List Non-Fiction Biography, Fiction Media Tie-In Buy at Amazon.com 500 million friends has to mean something The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook by Ben Mezrich A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal “The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s elite, comptetitive, and accomplished  student body. Then, in 2003, Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computers, crashed  the campus network, almost got himself  expelled, and was inspired to create Facebook, the social networking site that has since revolutionized communication around the world. With Saverin’s funding their tiny start-up went from dorm room to Silicon Valley. But conflicting ideas about Facebook’s future transformed the friends into enemies. Soon, the undergraduate exuberance that marked their collaboration turned into out-and-out warfare as it fell prey to the adult world of venture capitalists, big money, lawyers. Excerpt Chapter 1 October 2003 It was probably the third cocktail that…

Lindsay McKenna | A Salute to Afghanistan, OPERATION FORBIDDEN
Author Guest / February 26, 2011

I have a great, personal love for the people of Afghanistan. Because I’m a GIA Colored Stones graduate, my hobby is creating beautiful gemstone necklaces, earrings and bracelets for my worldwide clientele. Every year I go to the Tucson Gem Show in Tucson, Arizona. It’s the world’s largest gem show! Nearly every country in the world flies in their lapidary items that are indigenous to their country to be sold to buyers like myself. There are thousands of buyers who flock to this stellar event. The Tucson Gem Show is so big that it’s not held in just one place. Rather, it is scattered all over Tucson at different venues, tents, motel/hotels. It’s the dim sum plate of the lapidary world. I love Lapis Lazuli, a dark blue stone that is indigenous to Afghanistan. Over the years, I have made friends with our dealers who come from that war torn country. These men are hospitable, kind and always offer to feed us when we come into their hotel room where they have their lapis on display. Afghans are some of the greatest ‘horse traders’ in the world, and I mean that as a compliment. This is a very poor country…