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"Describes stories about ghosts and explores whether ghosts exist or not"--Provided by publisher.
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Jump-start any conversation with this "witty book . . . for anyone who likes to show off random bits of knowledge at the dinner table" (Men's Journal).
Did you know that "Karaoke" is Japanese for "Empty orchestra"? Or that all snowflakes have six sides? With this collection of over 350 fascinating, little-known facts, you'll be ready to get any conversation off and running. Hand-drawn illustrations and a charming conversationalist...
Did you know that "Karaoke" is Japanese for "Empty orchestra"? Or that all snowflakes have six sides? With this collection of over 350 fascinating, little-known facts, you'll be ready to get any conversation off and running. Hand-drawn illustrations and a charming conversationalist...
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Praised as the "bestest travel guide ever" (Mary Roach) and "a joy to read and reread" (Neil Gaiman), Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of travel books: "Odds are you won't get past three pages without being amazed" (San Francisco Chronicle). It rocketed to the top of bestseller lists and has over 626,000 copies in print since its publication in late 2016. Now the best gets better and the weirdest gets weirder with this completely revised and updated...
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"Discover Borneo's Gomantong Cave, where literally millions of bats, cockroaches, spiders, and rats coexist--in pitch darkness. Learn about mythical creatures like the Mongolian Death Worm--and scarily real ones like killer bees, which were accidentally created by scientists in the 1950s. Visit New Orleans' Beauregard-Keyes house, where Civil War soldiers are said to still clash in the front hall. Plus ghost stories from around the world, a cross-cultural...
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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...