Did you know that a lions roar can be heard up to five miles away? That an astronauts heartbeat slows down in space? That about GBP35 billion of Monopoly money is printed each year? Three hundred wacky facts pop from the colourful compact pages of Weird but True! 3" an irresistible trove of facts & fun based on the top-scoring feature in the premier childrens magazine
- National Geographic Kids. Brain-bending information entertains as it educates covering topics such as science animals food pop culture weather geography & everything else under the sun. Plus for the first time this edition contains fun facts generated by readers!"
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Following the huge success of the previous books in this series this casual reference book is full of wild wacky & brain-bending facts vibrant illustrations & fabulous photographs. Kids will have so much fun they won't even realise they're learning. Bright colourful interiors & fascinating & readable facts together with the small format low price-point make the Weird But True!" paperbacks perfect pocket money purchases." ...

Did you know that a great white shark can weigh as much as 15 gorillas or that meteorites the size of basketballs land on Earth about once a month? You'll find 301 more wacky facts like these in National Geographic Kids' latest brand extension More Weird But True". This second installment in the successful " Weird But True Series" has all-new illustrations creative type treatments & even more photos. Brain-bending facts cover a broad range of topics including science animals food weather pop culture outer space geography & just about everything else under the sun." ...

This marvellous book now updated as a second edition in a new paperback format is a celebration of eccentric cars in all shapes & sizes
- some of the most ugly crazily designed & downright awkward vehicles of all time. Where else would you find in one book descriptions & photographs of automotive oddities as diverse as the Gaylord Gentleman Suminoe Flying Feather or Zil?
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Based on the authors popular Times Online" column " Weird Cases" this book draws on extraordinary cases from many countries including the UK USA Canada Brazil Australia New Zealand Germany Italy Romania & China. The result is a highly entertaining read for anyone who enjoys reading about the more bizarre aspects of human life that fetch up in the law courts at the beginning of the 21st century. Courts have seen judges do things like try to turn off a musical tie playing We wish you a merry Christmas while sentencing a defendant to prison fall fast asleep in the middle of trials flip a coin to decide a case demand a foot massage from a clerk & get sentenced for judicial racketeering. Courts have listened to the defences like that of a bogus dentist caught using DIY tools on his patients a man who based his defence on being as hapless as Homer Simpson & a woman who was running a brothel from an office in the criminal courts. Courts have seen a litigant sue for becoming pregnant by a stray sperm in a swimming pool & a litigant suddenly strip naked before the judges. The cases featured in " Weird Cases" are those that truly stand out as odd even among all the unusual dramas that challenge the courts. The chapters are: Compensation & Punishment Love & Sex Food Drink & Drugs Judges Death & Violence Pets & Animals On the Road Lawyers & Jurors Friends & Neighbours." ...

Recently scientists at the frontiers of biology have hypothesised the existence of life-forms that can only be called weird": organisms that live off acid rather than water microbes that thrive at temperatures & pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break down even organisms that reproduce without DNA. The search for these strange life-forms spans the universe from the Martian permafrost the ammonia oceans of Jupiter's moons the hydrogen-rich atmospheres of giant planets the exotic ices on comets & the crusts of neutron stars. David Toomey brings us into the world of the researchers who have devoted their careers to "weird life". As they envision & discover ever stranger organisms here on earth they open up fascinating possibilities for the discovery of life in the rest of the universe." ...

' Can books conduct electricity?' ' My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok...isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question [' What is your pet peeve?'] first sparked the Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor. From ' Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?' to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year's weather; & from 'I've forgotten my glasses please read me the first chapter' to ' Excuse me...is this book edible?' This full-length collection illustrated by the Brothers Mc Leod also

Includes:: top ' Weird Things' from bookshops around the world."

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This is the new novel from the First Lady of Noir Fiction." (David Peace). Twenty years ago a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates. But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didnt act alone & Sean Ward
- a private investigator whose promising career in the Met was cut short by a teenage drug dealer with an automatic weapon
- travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth to try to discover what really happened all those years ago. But he quickly realises that whats ultimately at stake is not Corrines reputation but those of the people who ran the place then
- & still run it now. In order to get to the truth he has to take on not just retired Detective Inspector Le Rivett
- the man who headed up the original case & wants to keep it firmly closed
- but also the mindset of an entire town that has always known how to look after its own."




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On the night before Halloween Chris & Meg rescue a kid from a gang of bullies. At first they think this kid is in costume
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Daniel is known as Weirdo because he enjoys doing things at school that others think strange: working out mathematical calculations & formulas for everything doing his homework & being on his own. Tosh couldn't be more different: hanging around with his 'friends' who use him as a butt of their jokes & picking on others such as Daniel. So when they find themselves sharing lodgings on an Outward Bound weekend neither is too happy. Then they fall into a cave whilst out orienteering & the teacher with them is knocked unconscious. Before they know it water is pouring in on top of them! Faced with the prospect of drowning Daniel & Tosh are forced to forget their differences even for a short time & work together to save themselves & their teacher. ...