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Widowed Lady Charlotte Hobart must navigate a precarious life at Easterley Manor after her father‑in‑law dies, while Viscount Stacey Darton secretly protects her in the seedy Regency household.

Donald J. Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown’s Record Book of Weird and Wonderful Facts compiles a playful collection of lesser‑known trivia for curious young readers.

A book of information that you didn't even know that you wanted to know.

An unusual chronicle that traces everyday objects—from hand tools to holidays—to their ancient origins, revealing surprising facts about plumbing, punctuation, and even military pizza. A lively, fact-packed guide for history lovers and curiosity seekers.

"Science writer George Johnson brings his talent to the first biography of Nobel Prize laureate Murray Gell-Mann, the man who revolutionized modern particle physics with his theories of the quark and the Eightfold Way.". "Born into a family of Jewish immigrants on New York's East 14th Street, Gell-Mann demonstrated his prodigious genius from an early age - he entered Yale at fifteen, completed his Ph.D. at twenty-one, and was soon uncovering the secrets of subatomic particles and illuminating the elegant symmetries of the universe. Before long, a favorite pastime among physicists was arguing over who was smarter, Richard Feynman or Murray Gell-Mann."--BOOK JACKET.

In 1991, when her daughter's rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer's familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser--a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to lose--and almost as a joke--Dr. Mayer agreed. Within two days, and without leaving his Arkansas home, the dowser located the exact California street coordinates where the harp was found.Deeply shaken, yet driven to understand what had happened, Mayer began the fourteen-year journey of discovery that she recounts in this mind-opening, brilliantly readable book. Her first surprise: the dozens of colleagues who'd been keeping similar experiences secret for years, fearful of being labeled credulous or crazy.Extraordinary Knowing is an attempt to break through the silence imposed by fear and to explore what science has to say about these and countless other "inexplicable" phenomena. From Sigmund Freud's writings on telepathy to secret CIA experiments on remote viewing, from leading-edge neuroscience to the strange world of quantum physics, Dr. Mayer reveals a wealth of credible and fascinating research into the realm where the mind seems to trump the laws of nature.She does not ask us to believe. Rather she brings us a book of profound intrigue and optimism, with far-reaching implications not just for scientific inquiry but also for the ways we go about living in the world.From the Hardcover edition.

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 "mental_floss", creators of the hit magazine and last year's Condensed Knowledge, have scoured the darkest, dirtiest corners of history and the globe to gather this ultimate collection of the bad stuff you're not supposed to know and you certainly never learned in school. Organized by theme, with chapters for each of the seven deadly sins, the book includes feuds, plagiarists, hoaxes, lies, schemes, scandals, evil dictators, mob bosses, acts of revenge, angry queens, cannibals and much more, all organized into bite-sized—albeit foul-tasting—lists (i.e."The Fascist Style Guide: Five Dictator Grooming Tips", “Four Biblical Girls Gone Wild" and “Three Delicious Animals We Charbroiled Into Extinction."). It's the perfect way to add some spice to a dull conversation and proves that learning can be not only easy, but exquisitely sinful.

More tales of the odd and unbalanced. Just when you thought you'd already heard it all, here comes the third hilarious volume of botched crimes, bizarre sexual escapades, governmental goof-ups, and general indecent behavior collected from actual stories in our nation's newspapers. Infomaniacs and curiosity seekers alike will revel in the outlandish antics revealed in these newsworthy tidbits. The incidents are so bizarre, the experiences so outrageous, they go beyond news of the weird! So read on! We don't make this stuff up -- it's all strange, but it's all for real! - Back cover.

It's a mad, mad world. News junkies of the world, rejoice! Here's an all new follow-up to the best-selling News of the Weird that once again shows what you've always known to be true -- fact is indeed stranger than fiction. And we can prove it! Gathered here in one hilarious volume are more than 500 of the weirdest, craziest, most outlandish stories ever to find their way into our nation's newspapers. There are coincidences so bizarre, crimes so unbalanced, and behavior so inappropriate, you won't believe your eyes. But it's all true! - Back cover.

A collection of hundreds of intriguing curiosities and fascinating facts that challenge everyday knowledge.

The sequel to the best-selling The Book of the Bizarre, Beyond Bizarre offers up scores of new freaky facts, terrifying trivia, and stranger-than-fiction stories. Arranged into 13 chilling chapters like Haunted Hollywood, Blood Red Crosses and Gross Anatomy: Hospital Horrors, Bride of Bizarre, and Tales from the Cryptids, Beyond Bizarre tackles everything from female pirates and creepy candy stripers to psychic predictions and virgin shark birthsand much, much more.

Classic stories from Greek mythology come to life in this latest single-subject themed book in the Weird But True spin-off series, Know-It-All.