Curiosities category: 913 books
by Neil Philip
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Myths are the greatest stories ever told. Passed down over millennia, the great myths are the templates for all our stories, with their eternal themes of creation and destruction, fate and cunning, heroism and cruelty, sensuality and war.
Retold here are nearly 200 myths--from Prometheus defying...
The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies
From the Knights Templar to the JFK Assassination: Uncovering the [Real] Truth Behind the World's Most Controversial Conspiracy Theories
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Did the noble order of the Knights Templar guard a secret about Jesus’ birth?
Was the moon landing faked in a Hollywood movie studio?
Is the government keeping the remains of an alien spacecraft in the top-secret Area 51?
Monte Cook takes a look at conspiracy theories—ranging from the historically...
by Carolyn Kephart
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Carolyn Kephart exposes the inner workings of a Fisher Price wobble toy popular in the 1970s and now highly collectible. Kephart is the author of the acclaimed epic fantasy duology WYSARD and LORD BROTHER, as well as QUEEN OF TIME, contemporary magic realism.
by Silvia Strufaldi, Ricardo Garay
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 11, 2017
36Fun Extra é um almanaque gigante de diversão, nele você encontra 600 motivos para se divertir ou relaxar. Composto de: piadas, trivias, cartuns, quizzes e curiosidades. A cada novo volume novos motivos para você, rir, se informar de coisas inúteis e relaxar. Não recomendado para menores de 14 anos.
36 Fun
Volume 2
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 30, 2016
36Fun é um almanaque de diversão, nele você encontra 180 motivos para se divertir ou relaxar. Composto de: piadas, trivias, cartuns, quizzes e curiosidades. A cada novo volume novos motivos para você, rir, se informar de coisas inúteis e relaxar. Não recomendado para menores de 14 anos.
36 Fun
Volume 1
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 30, 2015
36Fun é um almanaque de diversão, nele você encontra 180 motivos para se divertir ou relaxar. Composto de: piadas, trivias, cartuns, quizzes e curiosidades. A cada novo volume novos motivos para você, rir, se informar de coisas inúteis e relaxar. Não recomendado para menores de 14 anos.
36 Fun
Volume 3
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 12, 2016
36Fun é um almanaque de diversão, nele você encontra 180 motivos para se divertir ou relaxar. Composto de: piadas, trivias, cartuns, quizzes e curiosidades. A cada novo volume novos motivos para você, rir, se informar de coisas inúteis e relaxar. Não recomendado para menores de 14 anos.
by Andrea Mills, DK
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Improve your reading skills while learning about myths, legends, fairytales, and folklore with DK's exciting and engaging book, Mythical Beasts. These fantastic retellings feature great stories from mythology about terrifying dragons and monsters, magical winged animals, the undead, gods and goddesses,...
by Mpumelelo Cilibe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
A collection of poems described by one well-known and respected teacher and poetry editor in South Africa as " great and mystic".
Lists of Note
An Eclectic Collection Deserving of a Wider Audience
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Lists of Note curates 125 unputdownable entries from a list of names that are as eclectic and intriguing as its contents, which include myriad reasons given by ancient Egyptians for missing work, Albert Einstein's demands of his estranged wife, F. Scott Fitzgerald's extensive conjugation of "to...
The Everything Classical Mythology Book
From the heights of Mount Olympus to the depths of the Underworld - all you need to know about the classical myths
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Romance, betrayal, passion, tragedy, violence, and scandal. No, it's not the latest reality TV search for love--it's classical mythology.
For years, people have turned to the ancient Greek and Roman myths for entertaining reading, unbelievable storylines, unique characters, and unparalleled...
by Hans Holzer
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Professor Hans Holzer carefully examines historic photographic evidence of ghosts and paranormal activity, explaining which images contain convincing proof and which may be trickery
For more than a century, psychic researchers have amassed a body of photographic evidence of the afterlife. Indeed,...
by Thomas J. Strang
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
In your quiet moments, what do you think about? How far you’ve come, or how far you have to go? Your strengths, or your weaknesses? The best that might happen, or the worst that might come to be? In your quiet moments, pay attention to your thoughts. Because maybe, just maybe, the only thing...
by Ken Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Travel back in time to the age of the pyramids with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! winner and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings.
With this book about ancient Egypt, you’ll become an expert and wow your friends and teachers with awesome ancient facts: Did you know...