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Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 6
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amos Decker, the FBI consultant with a perfect memory, and Alex Jamison, FBI return to solve a gruesome murder of a young woman named Irene Cramer, in a booming North Dakota oil fracking town. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, bringing with them problems, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution and now a gruesome murder."--Publisher description
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Publishing Company
Pub. Date
©2005.
Physical Desc
285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brand-new entry in the best-selling Weird U.S. series, Weird New England proves without a doubt that the Pilgrims landed in one very strange spot. So travel down our region's highways and byways with your tour guide par excellence, and learn all the stuff about New England that our schoolmarms never taught us. We promise: it's a journey you'll never forget" -- From inside book flap.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents over seven hundred "believe it or not" facts from the collection of Robert Ripley, discussing the sporting life, humans and superhumans, survivors, and other topics.
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
xx, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this new collection of never-before-published tales, classic legends, and long-forgotten lore, best-selling compiler and investigator of the supernatural Joseph A. Citro takes us on a tour of every haunted corner of his native state. We tour a home designed by otherworldly architects, pass the night in haunted hotels, visit an anti-gravity spot, and search for demon-protected treasure.
We take a ride on Vermont's only ghost ship, visit tiny fairyland...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling "oddities" exhibit, where he learns to see beyond appearances.
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 1
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged [retail edition].
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders"--
11) The beetle book
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of many kinds of beetles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes the joys and oddities of life in Provence, where he and his wife are fulfilling their dream of living in a restored farmhouse in the French countryside.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman tells the story behind two elderly sisters' estrangement, unraveling family secrets stretching back a century and across the Atlantic to early 20th century Italy. For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents--moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
From British humorist Jerome K. Jerome comes this novel about a young author in nineteenth-century London who confronts her guardian angel. This story is a perfect example of comic literature during the transition from Victorian England to Edwardian England.
Author
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this adventure, Annabeth encounters more oddities in the subway than usual, including a two-headed monster and a younger blond girl who reminds her a little of herself. This is the story fans have asked for, in which Annabeth Chase teams up with Sadie Kane. The demigod daughter of Athena and the young magician from Brooklyn House take on a larger-than-life foe from the ancient world. Perhaps even more disturbing than the power-hungry god they
...17) Beautyland
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge...
18) Gentle Julia
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Florence, only 13, knows that of her Aunt Julia’s many suitors, the best is the ungainly Noble Dill. Although he is an outcast, the innocent Florence sees that he is the only one without unfortunate oddities. This book is a laugh, as the young protagonist causes all sorts of trouble for Aunt Julia.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
My dear little Anglo-Saxons, Celt-Iberians and Teutonico-Latin oddities. The time has come to convey, impart and make known to you the dreadful conclusions and horrible prognostications that flow, happen, deduce, derive and are drawn from the truly abominable conditions of the social medium in which you and I and all poor devils are most fatally and surely bound to draw out our miserable existence.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1,135 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Join Professor Kenneth W. Harl for The Ottoman Empire: 36 enlightening lectures that investigate the nature of Ottoman identity, the achievements and oddities of the sultan’s court, and stories of confrontation and cooperation with the West.
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