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Adding amazing books to your summer reading list can be as simple as signing up for the BuzzFeed Books newsletter! You'll get a review of a new book you might love every Wednesday, plus much more twice a week: great jokes and quizzes, wonderful lists, powerful essays, all the Harry Potter and YA buzz you can handle, and of course, even more book recommendations.
An Instagram-famous photographer reveals the secrets to taking extraordinary pictures on your phone.
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Travel photographer Cole Rise is Instagram famous. As in, he created Rise, the filter, and has over 906,000 followers.
Since crafting Instagram's first photo treatments, Cole has promoted the gospel of the "unedited edited" look via his gorgeous pictures on Instagram, founded a mobile and desktop photo app of subtle filters called Litely, and was most recently featured in Apple's Shot on iPhone 6 campaign.
Needless to say, this guy knows his stuff. Cole sat down with BuzzFeed Life to discuss the secrets of subtle editing and how to get DSLR-worthy photos from your phone.
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Take on adulthood like a champ.
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It's the ultimate Netflix/morning email hybrid accessory. They'll crush their inbox before 9 a.m.
It doubles as a measuring cup (for food) and a sip measurer (for chef). Monitor sips, prevent accidental weekday drunkenness.
There's a lightweight backup battery hidden inside, plus cables for iPhone and Android.
Yes, you can actually buy a house for $500. And it could be the best thing you’ll ever do. Or the worst.
But while there are lots of true stories and tall tales about getting a house for as little as $10, there are some very real and lasting consequences to investing in real estate anywhere — and especially in Detroit.
So we talked to Nicole Curtis, Michigan native and host of HGTV's Rehab Addict (currently filming in Detroit), and Craig Fahle, director of public affairs for the Detroit Land Bank Authority, about what it really means to buy a house at auction in the Motor City.
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At best you'll have to invest about $10k in repairs to make the home livable. At worst, some of these homes can be in shambles AND have a value of –$40,000 because of back taxes, liens, water bills, and any number of other things.
TlL;DR: You can't just pay $500 and move right in. But you can buy a $500 house, invest some time and money, and have a great property for $30,000-plus (which is a lot less than anywhere else in the country).
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The biggest and most well-known online auctions are the Wayne County Tax Auction and the Detroit Land Bank Auction.
The Wayne County Tax Auction is run by the Wayne County Treasurer's office. Last year they sold over 24,000 properties online that had been in foreclosure, for a minimum bid of $500.
The Detroit Land Bank is a newer public authority that auctions three properties a day for a minimum bid of $1,000, plus closing costs and the current year's property tax.
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For many Detroit homes, the first auction price is just the amount of liens and taxes owed on the house. If no one buys them then, they either go to a second auction where the prices start at $500 or they are given to the Detroit Land Bank where the starting price is $1,000.
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Ten years after the release of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the Pevensies are all grown up!
The film tells the story of the four Pevensie siblings who discover a magical land in the back of an old wardrobe after being sent away as evacuees during the Second World War.
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Alert: Peter got hot. After being cast as the eldest Pevensie sibling in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe at age 18, Moseley continued his lead role as Peter in the film's follow-up, Prince Caspian. He's had small roles in several movies since, including the series' final film, Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Now 28, he's starring as Prince Liam in The Royals alongside Elizabeth Hurley. The network picked up the show for a second season two months before its debut.
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Anna has been busy since her days as Susan Pevensie, but you wouldn't know it from her IMDb page. She was accepted to Oxford University in 2007 to study English language and literature (filming for Prince Caspian had finished in September 2007, right before she started her undergraduate study), and she's had several roles on stage. Now 26, she has a starring role as Lola on Reign, which follows the early life of Mary, Queen of Scots. And she looks exactly like you've always imagined!
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