Did you know that a town in Spain celebrates an annual Tomato fight? That British police are still searching for crooks who stole 60,000 bees from their hive? These are just a few of the bizarre but t
Strange But True is an eye-popping compendium of extreme, bizarre and weird animals, places and strange phenomenaDid you know there's a plant that eats mice? That you can dip your toe in a rainbow-col
Weirdness from A-Z! Airmale to The Zebra! This large format book of full comic stories follows on the terrific success of “Super Weird Heroes: Outrageous But Real!” Here’s a new tome crammed with OMG,
Learn all about the strange, peculiar, and mysterious (yet fantastic!) world that is the London Underground Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of London's Underground, or as it is affectionately
True Tales of the ridiculous, the silly, and the just plain weird cases doctors face—lampooning the medical bureaucracy that makes practicing medicine and getting medical care such a headache.Doctors
Medicine’s Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician
Running’s Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful stories from the world of running, from the earliest marathon to today’s high-tech, apped-up approach. Within these pages y
New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Michael Ian Black delivers a frank and funny memoir about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his forties.Whether it’s family history, rel
New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Michael Ian Black delivers a “memorable and funny” (Kirkus Reviews) memoir about confronting his genetic legacy as he hits his forti
From A to Z and everything in between, here's a page-turning, eyebrow-raising head-shaking collection of "too-werid-to-be-true" facts.For instance. Turkey vultures are big meat-eaters. But t
Warning -- this book contains top-secret information about flowers! Prepare to be shocked and weirded out by this hilarious and totally true picture book introduction to some of nature's strangest plants. Flowers are beautiful. They have bright colors, soft petals and sweet nectar. Yum! But that's not the whole truth. Flowers can be WEIRD . . . and one bee is here to let everyone know! Talking directly to the reader, a bee reveals how flowers are so much stranger than what we think. Did you know that there are some flowers that only bloom in the nighttime? Some flowers are spooky, and look like ghosts, or bats, or a monster's mouth. And while most flowers smell good, there are some that smell like dead meat, or even horse poop! This hilarious and refreshing book with silly and sweet illustrations explores the science of flowers and shows that these plants are not always stereotypically pretty and harmless as we often think they are -- they are fascinating, disgusting, complicated and a
The moon is the same size as Australia. A blue whale's heart is as large as a car. It sounds weird, but it's true! It Can't Be True! wows the reader with impressive facts about the world that are all
A latest annual edition of a best-selling reference for students offers 40 percent new content, including entries about cute animals, a "Fun and Games" chapter, a redesigned "Continents of the World" section and a selection of weird-but-true facts. Simultaneous.
