In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths...

The fully revised and updated version of the classic is based on the theme of the Blue Planet, with an emphasis on the natural world, as well as the latest record-breaking successes in music, TV, and sports.

Trivia meets its match. Did you know that Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits? Or that the Mars Rover sang itself "Happy Birthday"? How about the odd ingredient Civil War soldiers used to make coffee? From Jupiter's diamond showers to why pirates wore eye patches to the delightful link between dancing goats and the discovery of coffee, this collection of obscure and fascinating facts is brought to you by Mike Lowery, an illustrator and connoisseur...

"Dominate trivia night, liven up a date, and impress everyone you know with this funny, weird, smart book of little-known facts"--

This volume presents Fort's complete procession: four landmark books that reinvented our understanding of the paranormal. Like no one else of his time, Fort was a genius at assembling records of bizarre, haunting, strange, and inexplicable anomalies for which science could not account. In these pages there appear visitors from space, monsters, poltergeists, and floating islands. Frogs fall from the sky, mysterious airships take flight in an age...

Provides an illustrated look at hundreds of facts and figures about the world, from the farthest animal migrations and the fastest vehicles to the power of the human brain and the world's most deadly creatures.

Collects information on various unexplained phenomena, including the Bermuda Triangle, the Lake Worth monster, and the hollow Earth theory.

"Read about all of the rational and fanciful explanations for the flattened patterns in crops all over the world, from the United Kingdom to Australia. Artists and hoaxers alike have claimed credit for these massive projects, but some people think that the source could be paranormal. Are these circles an elaborate prank, or could they be something more?"--

A collection of bizarre facts, stories, interviews, and features from Ripley's believe it or not.

Contains world records about dogs.