21.   The slim volume is full of advice to young professionals just starting out in the business world.

22.   The slim volume is selling well, says Dyer, a songwriter, performer, writer and filmmaker who lives here.

23.   The slim volume is slim pickings.

24.   The slim volume laid out in harrowing detail her personal history and most intimate experiences.

25.   The slim volume was written during the Vietnam war to mock government policies and the pretentious reports of think tanks.

26.   The slim volume, little more than a sermon, is one in a large field of religious self-help books.

27.   The slim volume was written by two reporters for Kommersant, a Russian daily newspaper, who interviewed Putin for a day.

28.   The spine split long ago on the slim green volume.

29.   The result is a slim volume packed with manly emotion.

30.   This and other anecdotes pepper a slim volume of quiet revelations by a quiet man.