Meet Lizardman, Vampire Woman, the eye-popper brothers & many other extraordinary individuals. Take a look at the sport that uses a headless goat as a ball! Check out the dress made from human hair! Visit the village in China where three million snakes are bred each year! Also, download the free app & scan images to unlock amazing extra content! For the legions of dedicated Ripley's fans, & anyone else on the planet who loves the unbelievable, the latest annual in the bestselling series is a feast of delights. Following hot on the heels of last year's best-selling edition, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2013 offers an entirely new compendium of bizarre facts & features, including the largest crocodile ever captured, the village in China where three million snakes are bred each year, & the national sport that uses a headless goat as a ball! As well as the jaw-dropping images & strange stories are intriguing interviews with some of the astounding individuals who feature in the book, informative ' Ripley's Research' boxes, mind-boggling lists, fascinating black & white photos from the Ripley archive, submissions from Ripley fans around the world
- & a brand new Ripley's Weird Records feature.
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Details:" Ripleys Twists" brings a fun, engaging & unique " Ripleys" approach to a whole range of
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It's a tooth-for-a-tooth in this vampire-revenge gorefest. When female reporter Sadie Blake (Lucy Lui) wakes up in a morgue to find that she's joined the ranks of the undead, she's more than a little miffed. Armed with a crossbow & fighting a serious th ...

When Ember left her home to enter a mysterious order of Knights, an order that protects our world from the next, she thought she was finding her true home. A family, a purpose &, most surprising of all, love. But that was before. Now, the order is on the edge of destruction
- driven apart by someone they trusted the most. With hope fading, Ember attempts a desperate escape. But she faces relentless pursuit by supernatural horrors that act on the commands of a mysterious evil. What she discovers in the shadows will shatter their world & bring a divide that will reverberate down the generations...
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To save both her town & the woman who loves her against all odds, a witch haunted by loss must reckon with her turbulent past. Even in a family of chaotic necromancers, Daria ‘ Dasha’ Avramov has always been an outlier. An event planner at the Arcane Emporium occult megastore, Dasha is also a devil eater: a rare witch with a natural affinity for banishing demons & traversing the veil. Still grieving the loss of her parents & plagued by a dangerous obsession with what lies beyond the other side of the veil, Dasha is both fiery & guarded, an expert at dodging commitment. Her one real regret is a devastating breakup with Ivy Thorn. When they are forced to work together to plan a festival, Dasha hopes that sparks might fly once again. But as they confront the fault lines & passion lingering between them, Dasha & Ivy must also stand against an otherworldly threat unlike anything Thistle Grove has faced before. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349438528 • Author: Lana Harper •... ...

Melbourne in the 1920s was a crime-ridden city in which no one was safe. Guns were fired in Fitzroy vendettas, police were shot, gangs operated in hotels & brothels... Through it all strode the notorious Squizzy Taylor, with not a speck of evidence to give him away. The daily press eagerly reported his crimes as he continued to outwit police. ...

More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. This work surveys life-cycle, culture, sexuality & destructive urges both towards ourselves & the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins. ...

When 13-year-old Tab Baird starts at a new school, she's determined to be the coolest, most popular girl there
- whatever it
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Until quite recently, almost no philosophers trained in the continental tradition saw anything of value in realism. The situation ...

After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as well as prestige, brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy, & the family is forced to return to Vermont, financially ruined but morally renewed. ...