Miss Lazar, the janitor, likes to dance around the school with a mop! She has a secret room down in the basement where she keeps the bad kids! She says cleaning throw-up is fun! Miss Lazar is the weirdest custodian in the history of the world![...]
They say you can't judge a book by its cover--but its title can tell you more than you ever needed to know Amazing, illuminating, and gut-bustingly funny, Bizarre Books is the wonderfully twisted product of more than two decades of determined searching in forgotten corners of out-of-the-way librarie[...]
Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes? right-hand man?so when he goes missing, it's a shock. Even Sherlock hasn't the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued but wary; she's still hiding from her older brothers, and getting involved could prove to be disastrous. But Enola c[...]
"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "A SPY AMONG FRIENDS
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Ben Macintyre's "Agent Zigzag "was hailed as "rollicking, spellbinding" ("New York Times"), "wildly improbable but entirely true" ("Entertainment Weekly"), and, quite simply, "the best book ever written" ("Boston Globe"). In his new[...]
From the function of earwax to why woodpeckers do not damage their brains and the truth about spontaneous human combustion, a second fascinating compendium answers 225 inquiries into everyday science mysteries, culled from The New York Times's "Science Q&A" column. Original. 17,500 first printing.[...]
Have you ever thought about eating giant flying ants? Or raw camel kidneys? Well, read on to watch Andrew Zimmern not only eat these unique and gross foods, but live to tell the tale about the people, places, and adventures he's had while roaming the world in search of new and exciting meals.
Zi[...]
Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes? right-hand man?so when he goes missing, it's a shock. Even Sherlock hasn?t, well, the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued, but weary; she's still hiding from her older brothers?and getting involved could be disastrous.But when a bi[...]
"Lansdale is an immense talent." "Booklist." Small-town juvenile delinquents, Pentecostal snake-handlers, zombies, psychopaths, and assorted freaks populate these witty and gritty tales of horror by a master of the genre. Joe R. Lansdale's debut collection of short stories was nominated for a Bram S[...]
Have you ever thought about eating giant flying ants? Or raw camel kidneys? Well, read on to watch Andrew Zimmern not only eat these unique and gross foods, but live to tell the tale about the people, places, and adventures he's had while roaming the world in search of new and exciting meals.
Zi[...]
This book is dedicated to a select group of designers and marketing people round the world who, in blissful ignorance of the meaning of 'fit for purpose', came up with vehicles so totally bizarre, ugly or inappropriate (in some cases all three) that they must be recorded for posterity. Some people h[...]
Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the unconventional life and art of Eric Stanton, a pioneering sexual fantasist who helped shape the movement. With more than 400 rare images and inte[...]
Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel's hit series "Bizarre Foods, " has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that's consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda to raw[...]
The death of a celebrity is often as fascinating as - and sometimes more fascinating than - a star's actual life. From the grisly end of Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson family and the mysterious demise of Bob Crane to the peaceful passings of Lucille Ball and George Burns, "The Hollywood Book[...]
The hit "Body Art" series is a celebration of tattooing and the evolving artform of body modification. Illustrated throughout with eye-popping color photos, and featuring interviews with the world's most famous artists and tattooists, this fourth volume will take you further under the skin of the sc[...]