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Haunted Ireland
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John J. Dunne |
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Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear
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Holly Hughes |
500 Places to See Before They Disappear enables passionate travelers and the eco-conscious to learn about and plan a visit to see rare cultural, historic, and natural places before they are irrevocab… |
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Amazing human feats
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Stuart A. Kallen |
Briefly describes such record-setting events and items as: the longest walk, the most expensive wedding, the largest potato chip, and the biggest birthday party. |
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Getting Into Guinness
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Larry Olmsted |
Meet Larry Olmsted, a freelance travel and sports writer, always on the hunt for new and intriguing stories. In Spring 2003, somewhere over the North Atlantic, Larry stumbled on an article about the … |
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Mysterious disappearances
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Daniel Cohen |
Discusses some famous or strange disappearances of people, ships, planes, lands, planets, civilizations, and other things and includes a chapter on mysterious appearances. |
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Monsters, mysteries, and man
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Newton, Michael |
Examines such persistent mysteries as monsters, UFO's and experiences with the supernatural. |
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Information is Beautiful
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David McCandless |
"A visual guide to the way the world really works. Every day, every hour, every minute we are bombarded by information - from television, from newspapers, from the internet, we're steeped in it, mayb… |
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Guinness world records
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Laurie Calkhoven,Ryan Herndon |
40 records about amazing animals and amazing feats. |
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The world in one day
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Russell Ash |
Provides statistics on what happens to the world in a single day, in such areas as geology, biology, technology, and culture. |
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Record makers and record breakers
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Nick Iversen |
Uses biographical sketches to present record performances which have captivated the public in such areas as politics, sports, science, entertainment, daily life, and aviation. |
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The Physical world
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Carol J. Stott |
Presents surprising facts about the world, in such areas as land, water, volcanoes, and rocks. |
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Olivia Bean, trivia queen
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Donna Gephart |
After overcoming a number of obstacles, especially in the subject of geography, Olivia is on her way to Hollywood to appear on Jeopardy! and, she hopes, to reunite with her father who left the family… |
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Mental Floss Presents Forbidden Knowledge
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Mangesh Hattikudur,Elizabeth Hunt,Will Pearson |
Think of anything bad, from art heists to Genghis Kahn, and it's likely to be included in this wickedly smart and humorous guide to the seedy underbelly of basically everything. The brainiac team at … |
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Strange mysteries from around the world
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Seymour Simon |
Describes 10 strange natural phenomena and possible explanations for them. Includes the day it rained frogs, an atomic explosion that occurred 40 years before the atom bomb, and an eerie crystal skul… |
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Mental Floss
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Mangesh Hattikudur,Editors Of Mental Floss |
Friends? Romans? Countrymen?
You never know whom you'll have to impress
at your next corporate shindig or keg party.
Whatever the target audience, mental_floss knows staring facedown into the pu… |
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The Thackery T. Lambshead cabinet of curiosities
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Ann VanderMeer,Jeff VanderMeer |
Collection of stories centering around Dr. Thackery T. Lambshead's astonishing cabinet of curiosities, which is filled with artifacts and personal diaries and recreates the doctor's many exploits. |
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The Tenth Chamber
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Glenn Cooper |
Meet Luc Simard, an archaeologist with a flawless academic career and a flawed history with women. When a book dating to the 14th-century is found after a fire in a monastery in the Perigord region o… |
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Seven wonders of Sassafras Springs
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Betty G. Birney |
Eben McAllister searches his small town to see if he can find anything comparable to the real Seven Wonders of the World. |
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Weird history 101
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John Richard Stephens |
Experience the true stories behind the history you learned in school in this collection. This book contains dozens of new twists on the dusty old histories you're used to reading about. |
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Brilliant Birds
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Thea Feldman |
Provides simple information about different birds. Text consists of short and simple sentences, high-interest information, easy vocabulary with a high degree of phonic regularity and lots of repetiti… |
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