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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Digest & Review. With this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • A digest of the The Invention of Wings • Content for your book club or other group event. • Stories beyond the digest and tidbits you may not know • The book's impact and its important to read • And more!
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Orphan Store Signs are signs for businesses that are gone, no longer there. The signs remain, the business does not. Sometimes the Orphan Store Signs are above other businesses. There is a story waiting for you just by walking downtown.
In the Summer of 2018, David Macpherson recorded all the Orphan Store Signs he came across in Worcester County Massachusetts. This book is the record of what he saw.
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The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant Digest & Review Activists fought for an end to child labor. Women secretly shared pamphlets about contraceptives. At the height of prohibition, patrons at certain cafes drank whiskey from teapots. Born in 1900, Addie Baum formed an identity separate from her traditional upbringing during a time of worldwide change. Now, at age eighty-five, Addie tells her granddaughter about her life and the times in which she lived,...
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Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Iowa. A Treasury of IowaTales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really great traditions passed orally from generation to generation.
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This compendium brings together a selection of the very best games. There are parlor games, travel games, trivia games, riddles, puzzles and more. Traditional family favorites feature alongside an array of newly created games.
The centerpieces of this collection are the six games: Descriptionary, Just a Minute, Lost for Words, Ultimate Charades, Quick Draw, and Trivial Disputes.
In total, these six games alone include 1350 game cards (one Kindle...
26) Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things
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Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Digest & Review With this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • A digest of the Hyperbole and a Half • Content for your book club or other group event. • Stories beyond the digest and tidbits you may not know • The book's impact and its important to read • And more!
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The Little Book of Belfast is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about the city of Belfast past and present. Funny, fast-paced and fact-packed, here you will find out about Belfast's trade and industry, crime and punishment, music, literature and sport, architectural heritage, and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women. It covers not only the famous elements in Belfast's history but also unusual, little-known...
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A drunk giant comes charging at you in a bar.
Go with a roundhouse kick, Judo hip throw, or Karate punch to bring him to the ground.
Your cheapskate neighbor refuses to pay you back.
The next time he's on vacation, turn on his backyard hose. By the time he returns home, his yard will be a swamp and his water bill will be through the roof.
Some juiced-up meathead starts trouble at the gym.
Take him down to size with an Aikido wrist twist.
There's...
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Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll Digest & Review. This is a tale of Ani, a girl who had it all- good looks, money and a perfect boyfriend with a wedding just a few days away. This is a book about a girl who was living a lie. Ani's past keeps her strictly enclosed in a cage she has built for herself. When she decides to take part in a documentary on the horrific event which changed her life forever, will it finally bring her peace? What lengths...
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If you think the legendary gods and goddesses of classical mythology are ancient history, think again. This little book focuses on a variety of those fascinating gods and goddesses and some of the lessons they've been teaching people since long ago-with a few wild and crazy tales to boot.
Here are just a few of the interesting facts you'll find in Classical Mythology:
• Head of a crocodile, body of a lioness, rear of a hippopotamus, Ammut was a...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The Illuminati was a Bavarian secret society founded by Adam Weishaupt in the late 18th century that was extinguished within a few years. But some believe it remains alive and is bent on world domination.
#2 A false flag operation occurs when a group or country conducts an attack that is then blamed on another group or country. The burning of Germany's parliament...
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An entertaining trip through pop culture, for the 'old fogeys' and 'kids these days' Today's teens and twenty-somethings have never seen a real airplane ticket. To them, point-and-shoot cameras are so last millennium and 'Star Wars' is a movie, not a defense strategy. The world views of today's young and old have never been more different. In this entertaining romp through American culture, the creators of the Beloit College Mindset List explore 75...
33) Oregon Trivia
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Oregon Trivia is the who, what, when, where, and how book of the great state of Oregon.
Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful, historic state, Oregon Trivia will provide hours of entertainment and education. Designed for use in a wide variety of settings--home, office, school, parties--it focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the fascinating Beaver State. Oregon...
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Ever wonder why and how cats purr? Do you sit there looking clueless when a child asks you where hiccups come from? Have you ever wanted to know the derivation of the word "pundit"? If the answer to these questions is yes, then this book is for you. Divided into seven categories-nature, human body, language, holidays and special occasions, humanities and culture, cuisine, and geography-this book will turn you into a veritable fount of knowledge on...
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The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: ANDY WEIR'S THE MARTIAN begins when astronaut Mark Watney finds himself stranded on Mars after an accident with an antenna caused his fellow crew to believe he had died, and they left Mars not knowing that he was still alive. The accident caused his bio-monitor computer to break, and he is left with only The Hab, hydrazine, a generator, and potatoes to keep him alive. Watney,...
36) The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson | Digest & Review
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson Digest & Review With this digest companion, you'll enjoy:
• A digest of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
• Content for your book club or other group event.
• Stories beyond the digest and tidbits you may not know
• The book's impact and its important to read
• And more!
What other readers are saying: "You can read it before you...
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Did you hear that Pope Francis endorsed Trump? Or that you have to pay to perform "Happy Birthday to You" in public? How about that the Soviet Union once banned microwaves out of fear that they were spreading diseases? These are all totally true things!* Everyone is saying so.
There's a lot of weird news out there today (thanks, Internet!). But given the speed of modern media, often these stories get disseminated faster than they can be fact-checked....
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Zero Belly Diet by David Zinczenko Digest & ReviewWith the exception perhaps of Sumo wrestlers, these days everyone on the road to success, be it career or sports, want washboard abs. Yet most of us are not naturally endowed with athletic good looks. It mostly comes from lots of exercise and "eating the right foods". But there seems to be a trick to "exercise and right foods". Doing 500 sit-ups every morning does not seem to guarantee a lack of excess...
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After the phenomenal success of Steve Wright's Book of Factoids, Steve returns with Further Factoids, bringing together the weirdest and most extraordinary factoids from BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright in the Afternoon.
Steve Wright, one of nation's favourite DJs, is a man with a brain the size of a small planet. Unfortunately, for him, this brain appears to be filled with trivia that would make Magnus Magnuson green with envy. Fortunately, for us, he...
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Hall of Fame Sports Trivia runs the gamut from every angle of the playing field, that will delight the entire world of real sports fans! It features outstanding trivia, interesting stats, hilarious quotes, nicknames, all-time records, and Hall of Famers. It also features interesting questions and answers that the average sports fan has never heard before. The end result is our reader screaming out, "I didn't know that!"
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