Curiosities & Wonders
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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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Breverton’s Phantasmagoria: A Compendium of Monsters, Myths and Legends
$29.95 Read moreA superbly illustrated guide to the mysteries of myth, legend, and–gulp!–real life.
- Author: Breverton, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0762770236
- 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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Werewolves, Dogmen, and Other Shapeshifters Stalking North America
$17.99 Add to cartHave you ever been driving, alone, at night, and know that what you saw along the side of the road was not human? Do you ever wonder just what was howling on your last camping trip? Have you ever felt
- Author: Kinney, Pamela K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1954214073
- Language: English
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¿Para Qué Sirve?
$16.00 Add to cartThis book likes to ask questions. It prefers a world full of questions over a world with definitive answers. Deep inside, this book likes to stir things up and pose difficult questions since it knows … [more below]
- Author: Matoso, Madalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 26 2023
- ISBN10: 195847990X
- Language: Spanish
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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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Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Corners
$15.00 Add to cart‘This engrossing book traverses the heights and depths, the beauty and terror, of our world.’ – THE OBSERVER
Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and arcane. His- Series: Unexpected Atlases
- Author: Elborough, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0711264015
- Language: English
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Amazing Football Facts Every 7 Year Old Needs to Know
$5.99 Add to cartPack your brain with football fun and trivia ahead of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup!
Did you know?
The world’s largest football shirt is over 80m long.
In 2002, Australia won a World Cup qualifying g
- Series: Amazing Facts Every Kid Needs to Know
- Author: Gifford, Clive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0008615748
- Language: English
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Astonishing and Extinct Professions: 89 Jobs You Will Never Do
$24.99 Add to cartThe jobs we’ve lost are windows into the past
Gladiators fought for glory. Ice harvesters chopped up lakes. In the USA, human computers, called rocket women, calculated the paths of the spaceships with
- Author: Rottmann, Markus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3907293932
- Language: English
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The Moon Tonight: Our Moon’s Journey Around Earth
$18.95 Read more“Exquisite.” — New York Times
Follow our moon as it waxes and wanes across the night sky in this informative and stunning nonfiction picture book by an astronomer and award-winning illustrator.
Ever
- Author: Chang-Hoon, Jung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 173760325X
- 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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The Junior Tarot Reader’s Handbook: A Kid’s Guide to Reading Cards
$14.99 Read moreLearn how to read tarot cards and understand what the past, present, and future have to say about your life, especially as it pertains to friendships, family, and school.
From Nikki Van De Car, autho- Series: The Junior Handbook
- Author: Van De Car, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0762479043
- Language: English
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The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
$35.00 Add to cartThis fascinating and bizarre collection compiles the most unusual, obscure books from the far reaches of the human imagination throughout history.
From the author of the critically acclaimed bestselle- Author: Brooke-Hitching, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 179720730X
- 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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Two Truths and a Lie: It’s Alive!
$13.99 Read more“Considering the fresh attention being paid to teaching a skeptical approach to information evaluation, this series opener couldn’t be better timed. A brief but savvy guide to responsible research met
- Author: Paquette, Ammi-Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0062418815
- Language: English
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Weird But True! USA
$9.99 Add to cartIt’s weird. It’s true. And now, it’s red, white, and blue Explore the wonderfully wacky side of the United States of America Weird But True style.
Calling all patriots Get ready to explore wacky wo- Series: Weird But True
- Author: Kids, National Geographic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1426333714
- Language: English
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True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*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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Weird But True: Stupid Criminals: 100 Brainless Baddies Busted, Plus Wacky Facts
$9.99 Add to cartDid you hear the one about the crook who broke into a vending machine and then left a trail of cheese curls all the way to his hideout? Or the burglar who left his wallet in an apartment he robbed, an… [more below]
- Series: National Geographic Kids
- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1426308612
- 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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Everyday Magic for Kids: 30 Amazing Magic Tricks That You Can Do Anywhere
$12.99 Add to cartPerfect the art of magic with simple every day objects and tips from professional magician Justin Flam.
Using every day objects, daring magician Justin Flom (434K Facebook followers and 153K subscrib- Author: Flom, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0762492600
- Language: English
