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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg Digest & Review. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a novel about two women who are forced to step back, take a look at their lives, and ultimately question who they are and what they are doing. Sookie Crackenberry has grown up with an overbearing and challenging mother, Lenore Simmons Crackenberry. Then one day, Sookie accidentally stumbles upon a scandalous family secret that...
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Loaded with meaty trivia and tasty, bite-sized facts!
mental_floss is proud to offer a delicious, hearty helping of brain-food that's sure to fire up your neurons and tantalize your synapses. Condensed Knowledge is a mouthwatering mix of intriguing facts, lucid explanations, and mind-blowing theories that will satisfy even the hungriest mind!
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5 tiny nations that get no respect
• 4 civilizations nobody remembers
• 5 classics...
6) Iowa Trivia
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In 2001, the Hawkeye State will celebrate its 155th anniversary of statehood. The book asks, "What legendary film star was born in Winterset in 1907?" and "What popular ice cream treat was invented in the town of Onawa in 1920?" (Answers: John Wayne; the Eskimo Pie).
This book is the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the Hawkeye State.
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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Digest & Review Everything I Never Told You, the debut novel by Celeste Ng, is about a Chinese American family living in small-town Ohio during the 1970s. The book begins when the Lee's middle child, Lydia goes missing and is found dead in a local lake. The entire family is torn apart by this news, as Lydia was her parents' favorite child. The death of Lydia drives everyone apart in their search for answers...
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The book contains a total of 501 facts which make the reader wonder about our strange but truly fascinating world.
The success of this book underlines the growing realisation that books now are no longer looked upon something as having necessarily a direct link to classroom and examination-and in consequence, to be shelved when the need is over. With exciting facts from different fields the book stimulates young reader's interest in the world around...
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Digest & Review. Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird follows the life of six-year-old Scout Finch and her ten-year-old brother Jem Finch. They spend the majority of their time playing with their friend Dill in a town called Maycomb, Alabama. Their father, Atticus is a lawyer who defends a black man against false charges of the rape of a white woman. The trial results in the children learning a lot about judgment...
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The phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything! Now the latest edition turns an evil eye toward the strange, the blood-curdling, and the macabre with spine-tingling fun facts from the dark side of entertainment. Chock-full of creepy information from the netherworlds of movies, TV, literature, video games, comic books, and...
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Did you ever find yourself at a dead-end, not knowing where to go, or which way to turn?
I'm sure Steve Jobs did, or Bill Gates, or Leonardo da Vinci, or Ben Franklin, or any of our twelve presidents who didn't have degrees. But that didn't stop them. They didn't give up. They gathered their wits, made a plan, and persevered. And look where it got them!
Not everyone becomes a billionaire, obviously, but it *is* achievable. Many of the people in this...
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This compendium brings together a selection of the very best games. There are parlor games, travel games, trivia games, riddles, puzzles and more. Traditional family favorites feature alongside an array of newly created games.
The centerpieces of this collection are the six games: Descriptionary, Just a Minute, Lost for Words, Ultimate Charades, Quick Draw, and Trivial Disputes.
In total, these six games alone include 1350 game cards (one Kindle...
13) Utah Trivia
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Utah Trivia is the who, when, what, where, and how book of the great state of Utah. Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful, historic state, Utah Trivia will provide hours of entertainment and education for use in a wide variety of settings-home, office, school, parties-it focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the fascinating Beehive State. Utah Trivia is readily...
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Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner Digest & Review. With this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • A digest of the Who Do You Love • Content for your book club or other group event. • Stories beyond the digest and tidbits you may not know • The book's impact and its important to read • And more!
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Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Iowa. A Treasury of IowaTales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really great traditions passed orally from generation to generation.
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Digest & Review. Ove is a lonely soul with nothing left to live for. He has lost his wife and child to a horrific accident that leaves him crippled mentally. What ends up happening in A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman is nothing less than magic. A grumpy, bitter man who believes it is him against the word warms our hearts and invites us in. The plot is predictable, but the reader will be surprised to fall in love...
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SEC Football Trivia is filled from cover to cover with interesting questions and answers about the part of the country where college football is a religion: Who was the cub reporter that covered the Tide practice sessions in Pasadena prior to the 1935 Rose Bowl contest? The most coveted college football award is named for which early Auburn coach? Which Georgia All-American was nicknamed "the Brat"? In what year did Coach Bear Bryant lead Kentucky...
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A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson Digest & Review.
A God in Ruins is the companion novel to Life after Life, both written by Kate Atkinson. Life after Life tapped into what life would be like with infinite chances to live and how choices affect those chances. A God in Ruins tells the story of Teddy Todd-husband, father, and war hero-as he tries to adjust to life after the war. He never expected to survive the war, so he is essentially facing a future...
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The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant Digest & Review Activists fought for an end to child labor. Women secretly shared pamphlets about contraceptives. At the height of prohibition, patrons at certain cafes drank whiskey from teapots. Born in 1900, Addie Baum formed an identity separate from her traditional upbringing during a time of worldwide change. Now, at age eighty-five, Addie tells her granddaughter about her life and the times in which she lived,...
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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Digest & Review. With this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • A digest of the The Invention of Wings • Content for your book club or other group event. • Stories beyond the digest and tidbits you may not know • The book's impact and its important to read • And more!
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