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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

“An infectious blend of wit, wonder, and the bizarre presented with remarkable style.” —San Antonio Express-News Jonathan Barnes, author of The Somnambulist, outdoes himself in outrageous invention with The Domino Men. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Jasper Fforde, Susanna Clarke, Matt Ruff, and Douglas Adams will not want to miss this quirky and compelling tale of intrigue, conspiracy, and general oddness. Think The Office meets James Bond fighting aliens with a healthy dollop of H.P. Lovecraft horror thrown in for good measure—and that’s only half the fun of Barnes’s wonderfully bizarre The Domino Men.

The Domino Men

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#hardcover #ripleys #believeitornot #2017 #kids #wacky #weird

Texas

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Wild & Wacky Edition 2017

Mark Shulman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

Are You "Normal"?

Eleanor Brown

Former library book with typical markings 

Kentucky

The Weird Sisters

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Mike Adkins

The Unforgettable Story of an Uncommon Friendship 

A heartwarming tale about one man's willingness to reach out and touch the life of his neglected, elderly neighbor. Mass paper

A Man Called Norman

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Oregon

Strangely Enough 

Maine

Strange World

#paperback #fiction #weird #wouldyourather #kids #children a Name written on inside cover as shown in picture. 

Wonderfully Weird

Would You Rather…? 

Florida

Joel Levy

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Arizona

Bizarre Events That Have Puzzled the Greatest Minds

Unsolved Mysteries

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National Geographic

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

1,000 Wild and Wacky Facts and Photos

Presents facts, brief stories, and photos on topics including extreme hotels, freaky foods, and crazy art, showing that fact can be as weird as fiction.

National Geographic Kids Ultimate Weird but True

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Bathroom Readers' Institute

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight where on the paperback cover. Will ship within hours after your order is received. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

The Bathroom Reader turns 25! Uncle John is celebrating this historic milestone with his biggest all-new edition ever--more than 600 pages of absorbing material!

2012 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Honorable Mention in Humor Category
2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in Humor

 

"Fully Loaded" is putting it mildly. This behemoth of a book is overflowing with incredible stories, surprising facts, weird news, little-known origins, forgotten history, fun wordplay, and everything else that millions of loyal fans have come to expect from the world's best-selling bathroom reading series. As always, it's divided by length: quickies for the reader on the go, medium-sized articles for those with a few minutes to spare, and extra-long pieces for those truly leg-numbing experiences. Here are just a few of the hundreds of topics loaded into this edition of America's favorite "on the go" source of fascinating information:

* Forgotten Firsts
* Dumb Crooks: Stoner Edition
* Bizarre Japanese Video Games
* The Kamikaze Instruction Manual
* Our Lady of the Little Green Men
* The Worst Fire in American History
* The World's Worst Business Decision
* The New Years Eve Opossum Drop
* Do Blondes Really Have More Fun?
* Failed Doomsday Predictions 
* When Toilets Explode
* And much, much more!

Uncle John's Fully Loaded 25th Anniversary Bathroom Reader

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#paperback #9780439056601 #food #history of food #gross #disgusting #children's #nonfiction #weird 

New York

True food facts from around the world and throughout history 

It's Disgusting and we ate it

Roald Dahl

Older copy, crease in back cover, page edges discolored somewhat (pictured).

Vermont

Is it really possible to invent a machine that does the job of a writer? What is it about the landlady's house that makes it so hard for her guests to leave? Does Sir Basil Turton value most his wife or one of his priceless sculptures? These compelling tales are a perfect introduction to the adult writing of a storytelling genius.

The Umbrella Man and Other Stories

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Allie Rowbottom

Pennsylvania

A Family History

A "gorgeous" (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade - told by the inheritor of their stories. A New York Times Editors' Choice One of People Magazine's Best Books of Summer An Amazon Best Book of the Month An Indie Next Pick A Real Simple Best Book of 2018 In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege - but they were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism, and mysterious ailments. More than 100 years after that deal was struck, Allie's mother Mary was diagnosed with the same incurable cancer, a disease that had also claimed her own mother's life. Determined to combat what she had come to consider the "Jell-O curse" and her looming mortality, Mary began obsessively researching her family's past, determined to understand the origins of her illness and the impact on her life of Jell-O and the traditional American values the company championed. Before she died in 2015, Mary began to send Allie boxes of her research and notes, in the hope that her daughter might write what she could not. JELL-O GIRLS is the liberation of that story. A gripping examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its fractured fortune, JELL-O GIRLS is a family history, a feminist history, and a story of motherhood, love and loss. In crystalline prose Rowbottom considers the roots of trauma not only in her own family, but in the American psyche as well, ultimately weaving a story that is deeply personal, as well as deeply connected to the collective female experience.

JELL-O Girls

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Peter Straub

Former library book. Markings and stickers indicate it is a former library book. Creases in spine from reading wear. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kansas

The New Horror - An Anthology

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre. Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly inventive, evocative spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe than with the sometimes-predictable hallmarks of their peers. Showcasing this cutting-edge talent,Poe’s Childrennow brings the best of the genre’s stories to a wider audience. Featuring tales from such writers as Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll,Poe’s Childrenis Peter Straub’s tribute to the imaginative power of storytelling. Each previously published story has been selected by Straub to represent what he thinks is the most interesting development in our literature during the last two decades. Selections range from the early Stephen King psychological thriller “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet,” in which an editor confronts an author’s belief that his typewriter is inhabited by supernatural creatures, to “The Man on the Ceiling,” Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem’s award-winning surreal tale of night terrors, woven with daylight fears that haunt a family. Other selections include National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon’s “The Bees”; Peter Straub’s “Little Red’s Tango,” the legend of a music aficionado whose past is as mysterious as the ghostly visitors to his Manhattan apartment; Elizabeth Hand’s visionary and shocking “Cleopatra Brimstone”; Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant, mind-stretching “Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story”; and “Body,” Brian Evenson’s disturbing twist on correctional facilities. Crossing boundaries and packed with imaginative chills,Poe’s Childrenbears all the telltale signs of fearless, addictive fiction.

Poe's Children

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ARC copy in excellent condition, never been read. The wear on the cover is part of the cover design and isn’t actual wear on the book. The cover and all pages are unbent and unmarked. 

Ohio

The Heap ARC

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perfect dust jacket, clean throughout. 25 macabre recipes for cupcakes- very weird, yes, but much fun too!
heavily illustrated!

25 Deliciously Weird Cupcake Recipes

With 25 killer cupcake recipes, Lily Vanilli will teach you how to bake and decorate some frighteningly good cakes!

After being banished for so long to the land of the pretty and identical, the domestic and the twee, cupcakes are biting back. Here, Lily Vanilli shows how you can take inspiration from anywhere--insects, roadkill, zombies--and recreate it in cake, with a delicious result. Get creative with your tasty toppings, edible sculptures, and natural ingredients with this introduction to making cakes look weird, ugly and perfect for Halloween. Give guests a shock with revoltingly realistic Marzipan Beetles, or add a crunch to your desserts with Morbid Meringue Bones, dipped in raspberry blood sauce. Try out a black cherry Dracula's Bite red velvet cupcake with cream cheese, a heavenly Fallen Angel Cake, or go for the indulgent and truly dark chocolate Devil's Delight Cupcakes.

A Zombie Ate My Cupcake

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Gary Ghislain

David Gershwin's summer is about to take a turn for the weird. When his dad's new patient Zelda tells him shes from outer space and on a quest to take Johnny Depp back to her planet, he knows he should run away screaming. But with one look from her mean, green eyes, David's hooked, and soon he's leaping across rooftops, running from police, and stealing cars just to stay by her side. He might not be a typical hero, but David's going to get the girl even if it takes him to the ends of the earthor beyond.

How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend

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Anna Caritj

Georgia

A Novel

“Affecting narrative about consent, power and loneliness.”—Time “Intoxicatingly ominous.”—Kirkus Reviews In a hothouse of collegiate sex and ambition, one young woman mysteriously disappears after a wild campus party, and another becomes obsessed with finding her. It’s Halloween night on a pastoral East Coast college campus. Scantily costumed students ride the fine line between adolescence and adulthood as they prepare for a night of drinking and debauchery. Expectations are high as Leda flirts with her thrilling new crush, Ian, and he flirts back. But by the end of the night, things will have taken a turn. A mysterious young woman in a swan costume speaks with Leda outside a party—and then vanishes. When Leda later wakes up in Ian’s room the next morning, she is unsure exactly what happened between them. Meanwhile, as the campus rouses itself to respond to the young woman’s disappearance, rumors swirl, suspicious facts pile up, and Leda’s obsession with her missing classmate grows. Is it just a coincidence that Ian used to date Charlotte, the missing woman? Is Leda herself in danger? As Leda becomes more and more dangerously consumed with the mystery of Charlotte and questions about Ian, her motivations begin to blur. Is Leda looking for Charlotte, or trying to find herself? In Leda and the Swan, Anna Caritj’s riveting storytelling brings together a suspenseful plot; an intimate, confessional voice; and invaluable insights into sex, power, and contemporary culture.

Leda and the Swan

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Leslie Gilbert Elman

Weird but True, 200 Astounding, Outrageous, and Totally off the Wall Facts

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Michigan

Recital of the Dog

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30 Otherworldly Tales

City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city's personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound--and always perfectly weird.


City of Weird

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Audrey Niffenegger

Massachusetts

A Collection of Ghost Stories

"Edited by the beloved, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, this anthology features works by some of the most revered ghost story writers of both past and present. From Edgar Allen Poe to Kelly Link, M.R. James to Neil Gaiman, it comprises a whole history of the form in English from Gothic horror to the modern era. With short original commentary and illustrations by a master of the craft and beloved graphic novelist introducing each story, as well as one new tale of her own, Ghostly is a unique and haunting anthology of some of the best ghost stories of all time"--

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Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Wild & Wacky Edition 2017

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Are You "Normal"?

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Mike Adkins

A Man Called Norman

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Strangely Enough

Frank Edwards

Strange World

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Would You Rather…?

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Joel Levy

Unsolved Mysteries

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It's Disgusting and we ate it

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JELL-O Girls

Peter Straub

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A Zombie Ate My Cupcake

Gary Ghislain

How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend

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Leslie Gilbert Elman

Weird but True, 200 Astounding, Outrageous, and Totally off the Wall Facts

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Recital of the Dog

Gigi Little (Editor)

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