Curiosities and wonders
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Space Maps: Your Tour of the Universe
$30.00 Read moreDo you want to go on a journey through space? Then all you have to do is look up at the night sky. What can you see?
This super-sized book of maps takes you on a space adventure from the stars to the s- Author: Albanese, Lara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1912920565
- Language: English
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Return to Factopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 More Facts
$14.99 Add to cartA world of 400 facts, all connected in surprising and hilarious ways! Choose your own path through this ingenious web of astounding information.
Did you know that bacteria from between people’s toes ha
- Series: Factopia! #2
- Author: Hale, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 191375040X
- Language: English
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The Book of Strange But True Science
$16.98 Add to cartPacked with hundreds of articles on the most interesting things that ever happened in science. Plus a few things that didn’t.
- Filled with both pragmatic, commonsense explanations and outrageous revela
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640308334
- Language: English
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Totally Random Facts Volume 1: 3,128 Wild, Wacky, and Wondrous Things about the World
$19.99 Read moreDID YOU KNOW? Dragonflies can see in all directions at once. Cats have a vocabulary of 14 words. And golf balls were originally made from–wait for it–cow’s eyeballs.
Fantastic facts and incredible i- Series: Totally Random Facts
- Author: Bellows, Melina Gerosa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0593450531
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Useless Facts
$10.99 Add to cartDid you know that polar bears have jet-black skin? Or that underwater hockey is a real sport? Impress your family and friends with The Big Book of Useless Facts, an impressive compendium of absolutely… [more below]
- Author: Peter Pauper Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1441340580
- Language: English
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The One Impossible Labyrinth: Volume 7
$24.95 Add to cartThe seventh electrifying thriller in the Jack West, Jr. series from New York Times-bestselling author Matthew Reilly
THE END IS HERE Jack West, Jr. has made it to the Supreme Labyrinth. Now he faces- Series: Jack West, Jr.
- Author: Reilly, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1760559091
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Book of Pub Trivia by the Smartest Guy in the Bar: Over 300 Rounds and More Than 3,000 Questions
$19.99 Read morePlay the best damn trivia night ever!
From one of the pioneers of pub trivia, Jeopardy! champion Austin Rogers, comes the complete resource for playing and running an uproariously entertaining trivia… [more below]- Author: Rogers, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1523510528
- Language: English
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The Book of Useless Information
$15.00 Add to cartWhat you may so cavalierly call useless information could prove invaluable to someone else. Then again, maybe not. But to The Useless Information Society, any fact that passes its gasp-inducing, not-a… [more below]
- Author: Botham, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0399532692
- Language: English
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Failure to Launch: A Tour of Ill-Fated Futures
$30.00 Add to cart“Incredibly fascinating.” — BOOKLIST Starred Review
Not all dreams come true! While history is written by the winners, the full story of humanity is built on the moments when things went completely si
- Author: McDonald, Kel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1638991235
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Hidden Places: Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them
$30.00 Add to cartA spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world’s most fascinating architectural mysteries.
This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushl
- Author: Bachmann, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1523516984
- Language: English
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Ultimate Weird But True 2: 1,000 Wild & Wacky Facts & Photos!
$19.95 Read moreUltimate Weird But True 2 proves once again that truth really is stranger than fiction–with even more outrageous photos and fun-tastic facts! Did you know that an elephant can weigh as much as 14 lio… [more below]
- Series: Weird But True #2
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1426313586
- Language: English
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Sh*t for Brains: Trivia You Can’t Unknow
$16.00 Read moreA compendium of truly outrageous, surprising, and (sometimes) gross facts.
Did you know that Big Bird was originally supposed to fly on the doomed Challenger Space Shuttle? Or that smelling your own f- Author: Harebrained Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0593538293
- Language: English
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Weird But True 5: Expanded Edition
$9.99 Add to cartDid you know that fish sometimes cough, or that alligator teeth are hollow? It’s all weird … but true
The world can be a pretty wacky place Kids will have a blast exploring just HOW wacky in the 5- Series: Weird But True #6
- Author: National Geographic Kids
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1426331126
- Language: English
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Animal Factopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Beastly Facts
$14.99 Add to cartThis book will make you ROAR with laughter! Discover facts about escaping penguins, farting zebras, leaping dolphins, snorting elephants, dancing bears, and more–all connected in weird and wonderful
- Series: Factopia! #4
- Author: Beer, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1913750736
- Language: English
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The World Almanac 5,001 Incredible Facts for Kids on Nature, Science, and People
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac(TM) comes a full-color, full-of-fun, oversize book packed with thousands of awesome facts about science, nature, and people–everything on planet E… [more below]
- Series: World Almanac and Book of Facts
- Author: Almanac Kids(tm), World
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1510761799
- Language: English
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Factopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Facts…
$14.99 Add to cartWelcome to FACTopia!, a wonderland of crazily connected facts.
Choose your own path through this hilarious world of 400 facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Every fact in the b
- Series: Factopia! #1
- Author: Hale, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1912920719
- Language: English
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True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t: 500 Insane-But-True Facts That Will Shock and Impress Your Friends
$19.95 Add to cartProve you are the smartest schmuck in the room with 500 true trivia facts that sound absurd. These facts are so absurd some might even say that they sound like bull$#*t!
Knowledge is power! Crush the c
- Series: Mind-Blowing True Facts
- Author: Carley, Shane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1646433181
- Language: English
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The Fascinating Animal Book for Kids: 500 Wild Facts!
$22.99 Add to cartFrom anglerfish to zebras, discover 500 awesome animal facts for kids ages 9 to 12.
From frogs to foxes, scorpions and sharks, The Fascinating Animal Book for Kids has it all! This animal encyclopedi- Series: Fascinating Facts
- Author: Clarke, Ginjer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 1638788286
- Language: English
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National Geographic Kids Ultimate Weird But True 3: 1,000 Wild and Wacky Facts and Photos!
$19.99 Add to cartGet ready for even more zany weird-but-true fun with 1,000 all-new wacky facts, photos, and too-strange-to-believe stories in the newest book in the wildly popular series. It’s the ultimate in weird-b… [more below]
- Series: Weird But True #3
- Author: National Geographic Kids
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 4, 2015
- ISBN10: 142632068X
- Language: English
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The Box
$17.00 Read more* LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE *
A stylistically dazzling novel about objects, people, and the forces and seams between them. Of course, each thing has its own sides to ever- Author: Wong, Mandy-Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452499
- Language: English
