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Two thousand nine was the best year in history for movies in the United States. Movies earned more than ten billion dollars in ticket sales last year. This was helped by the steady increase in movie ticket prices. Shirley Griffith tells us about some of the best wholesale ed hardy shirtsmovies of last year.SHIRLEY GRIFFITH:Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in "Avatar" Americans spent a record two hundred seventy-eight million dollars on movie tickets last weekend. The 3-D science fiction adventure movie,cheap nike shox "Avatar," was the most popular film that weekend. Reports say "Avatar" cost more than three hundred million dollars to produce. Several film critics called it one of the best movies of last year."Avatar" uses special effects that have never been seen before in a movie. It combines live action, motion-capture, animation and computer-produced images. The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future. Several traditional movies also were named among the best of two wheel nut suppliersthousand nine. One is "The Hurt Locker." It is a tense and exciting movie about American soldiers in Iraq whose job is to find and safely destroy hidden explosive devices. (SOUND: "Hurt Locker")"Up in the Air" is also on many critics' list of best movies of the year. George Clooney as Ryan Bingham in "Up in the Air" It stars George Clooney as a shower room supplierman who spends most of his life flying around the country to different cities. His job is to dismiss people from their jobs. This movie hits very close to home. It includes people who have really lost their jobs during this time of high unemployment in the United States.Critics have also praised a movie called "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." Plastic mouldIt is about an extremely overweight black teenager in the Harlem area of New York City. Precious suffers horrible sexual and physical abuse from both her parents. But caring teachers and social workers help her improve her life. Two other favorite movies of last year are based on children's books.reading eyewear "Where the Wild Things Are" is a live action film based on the popular book by Maurice Sendak. A young boy named Max runs away from his mother and sails to an island full of frightening-looking creatures. football shirts And critics also liked "Fantastic Mister Fox" based on a book by Roald Dahl. This stop-motion animation movie was called creative and fun for both children and adults.Best BooksIn December, many newspapers and booksellers in the United States publish lists of the year's best books. Steve Ember tells us about several favorites reading glassesof two thousand nine."A Gate at the Stairs" is writer Lorrie Moore's first book in over ten years. It takes place in two thousand one shortly aft 2000 er the terrorist attacks on America. stainless steel fluid parts It tells about a young girl named Tassie who attends college in the Midwest. She takes a job as a babysitter for a woman and her husband who have adopted a child of mixed race. pocket bike partsIt is a funny, sad and emotional story about marriage, race, family, terrorism and war. Critics also praised the latest book by Irish writer Colm Toibin. dirt bike parts"Brooklyn" is about a young Irish girl named Eilis. Her family sends her to live in the Brooklyn area of New York City in the nineteen fifties. Mister Toibin describes how she slowly gets used to her new life in America. street scooter parts Eilis soon falls in love with a kind Italian-American young man named Tony. Eilis must return to Ireland because of a family tragedy. She must choose between Tony and her family."Cutting for Stone" was written by the medical doctor and writer Abraham Verghese. It is a powerful story about twin brothers cheap air maxborn in a Catholic hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Their mother, an Indian nurse at the hospital, dies in childbirth. Their father, a British doctor, flees as soon as they are born. The brothers are raised by two Indian nike shoxdoctors who live at the hospital. One brother later moves to the United States. This is a story about the extremes of love, family, and medicine. Other top books include the British historical novel "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel. It is about King Henry the Eighth and his advisor Thomas Cromwell. Daniyal Mueenuddin's book "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders," was also noted as ugg saleone of the best books of last year. It is a collection of linked short stories about the lives of very rich and very poor people in Pakistan.