A beloved book is like an old friend: full of familiar stories, rich in endearing details, and just as enjoyable when covered in highlighter. Make a new literary acquaintance with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of books, educational games and toys, movies, and gifts at Barnes & Noble. This Groupon is valid for purchases made online, at any of more than 700 Barnes & Noble retail locations, or on Barnes & Noble’s e-reader, the Nook.
With more than one million book titles to choose from, Barnes & Noble stocks one of the retail world's largest selections of bound pages, along with a huge assortment of educational toys and games. Keep sprightly scribes from using walls, furniture, and siblings as writing surfaces with the help of LeapFrog’s Scribble & Write ($24.95 online), or indulge kids’ natural passions for outer space and solid detective work with a LEGO Space Police Smash ’n’ Grab set ($19.95 online).
Tingle grownup spines with the thrills and intrigue of James Patterson's Tick Tock ($14.57 online), or bulk up your brain with Stacy Schiff’s nonfiction tome Cleopatra: A Life ($18.01 online). Named one of 2010's best new products, Barnes & Noble's e-reader, the Nook, comes in both black-and-white ($149) and color ($249) versions; choose from more than two million downloadable titles, 100 of which are free, and tote them with ease to work, the dentist’s office, or your night job guarding the dentist’s herd of tooth fairies.
Barnes & Noble’s bounty of unbooks includes a broad spectrum of movies—from recent DVD releases such as The Social Network ($17.39 online) to centuries-old Blu-rays such as This is Spinal Tap ($9.99 online).
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The Groupon Guide to: the Super Bowl
Despite its name, the Super Bowl is not an actual super bowl, unlike the Stanley Cup, which by all accounts is an amazing dish. Instead, the Super Bowl is a thrilling showdown between the year's top football clubs. Here's a look at the history of this explosive event:
1967: The first Super Bowl happens spontaneously when a bus carrying the AFL-champion Kansas City Chiefs crashes into a bus carrying the NFL-champion Green Bay Packers. Instead of swapping insurance information, the two teams play a full-contact game to determine who will pay the damages. Today, the surviving members of both teams meet every year to recreate their famous bus crash.
1971: Before this clash between the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Colts, Dallas mayor J. Erik Jonsson wagers a bushel of Dallas's famous apples on his team and Baltimore mayor Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro III promises to "personally inflict a plague of locusts" upon Dallas should the Colts win. The Colts prove victorious, destroying much of Dallas's farmland.
1972–2004: The Super Bowl is played but is not broadcast in any medium, and the results are kept a secret between the teams, which played a nontackle version of the game where touchdowns were worth 100 points and friendship was worth everything. Also, every losing team had to throw one member into a volcano as penitence.
2008: To counteract America's waning interest in football, Super Bowl XLII is played between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees, who are allowed to use their bats.
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