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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...
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"It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders-- the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India....
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Curiosity House volume 1
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"Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders."--
5) Piranesi
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245 pages ; 22 cm
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
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144 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"Packed with all the weirdest, wildest stories you've never heard of. These off-the-wall oddities must be seen to be believed!"--Back cover.
Features crazy facts, new discoveries, and weird wonders of the world, including a house covered with millions of sea shells, a new invention for grinding insects for cooking, and a secret amusement park.
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Whether you're a born-and-raised New Mexican, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Mexico Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as it introduces you to the most fascinating characters in the Spanish State, and takes you places you never could have imagined-some of them right around the corner!
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"A book for all ages about noticing the wonder and beauty in the world both near and far"--
A young boy follows his imagination from the pyramids of Egypt to the moon, and back again. Along the way he learns that there are always stories to discover, to dream about, and to share.
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144 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
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This edition from Ripley's Believe It or Not features 144 pages of awesomely weird information and photos--from a life-size gingerbread house in Texas to a real underwater city in China, from a dolphin with an artificial tail to an ex-soldier with a bionic arm!
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256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
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Will Pearson investigates twenty unique mysteries with their broad spectrum of strangeness. Some, like the sudden disappearance of the sailing ship Mary Celeste's passengers and crew have gained universal currency. Was the Wow! Signal a radio transmission form deep space, or was it the ambient resonating frequency of a passing comet? Cryptids like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster teeter on the boundaries of probable and improbable, hoax and reality,...
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127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
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¡Todo es cierto, 100% NUEVO, lo creas o no! Ripley's ¡Desbloquea lo extraño! 2017 sorprenderá y asombrará a los lectores desde la primera hasta la última página. Fotografías alucinantes, historias increíbles y hechos alucinantes ¡Ripley's es famoso por sus horas de entretenimiento prometedoras para todos los fanáticos de Ripley! Con miles de historias, incluidas las presentaciones de lectores de todo el mundo, ¡descubrirás algo nuevo...
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