Missouri Curiosities (Missouri Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff) (Curiosities)
by Josh Young
The Show Me State has lots to be proud of--the Pony Express, Mark Twain, the International Bowling Museum, a billion-gallon underground lake to name just a few. Everything has a story. With Josh Young at your side, enjoy a hilarious tour of Missouri, where there's a law against worrying squirrels and a museum celebrating the unexplained.
"The best kind of reference book--one that amuses as it instructs. I fell for it hook, line, and sinker." CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALERR IN A NUTSHELL, here's a terrific A TO Z listing of the meanings and origins of over 2,000 common or particularly interesting cliches for everyone who delights in the pleasure of words.
Trivialites
The Colossal Reader (Armchair Reader)
by Tom DeMichael, Rhonda Markowitz, Lexi M Schuh, Robert Norris, Bryant Smith, and Richard Mueller
Weird Wisconsin, 20 (Weird, #20)
by Linda S. Godfrey and Richard D Hendricks
Guinness World Records (Guinness Book of Records (Mass Market)) (Guinness World Records)
Contains thousands of records that span every field of human and non-human endeavors, including science and technology, animals, sports, geography, arts and entertainment, education, hobbies and pastimes, unusual rituals, and many others.
Old-Fashioned High-Tech: Bizarre & Eccentric Inventions 1851 - 1951 (Shire General)
by Guy Browning
You undoubtedly know what a paperclip is and how to use it, but did you know that during the Second World War the people of Norway adopted paperclips as a symbol of protest against the occupying Nazis? Really Useful tells these and other stories of how the things we use every day came into being. As much a sociological history as a compendium of entertaining stories, Really Useful takes you on a tour from the kitchen to the bathroom to the office and beyond. Along the way it tells us about the...
Fleurs du Mal (French Texts) (Picador Classics S.)
by Charles Baudelaire
This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature.
