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Freaky Facts
By Hinkler Books. 2009
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is useful for some of our members. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these. Hundreds of peculiar and perplexing tidbits to astound your acquaintances and fascinate your friends. With comical illustrations by Glen Singleton, Freaky Facts covers everything from unusual animal facts and wacky world records to ludicrous laws and strange science. Freaky Facts will entertain you for hours.Genealogy Online For Dummies
By Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm. 2014
Research your family history using the latest online tools and appsGenealogy Online For Dummies 7th Edition is the perfect…
book to help you conduct genealogical research Updated to cover the latest online tools this new edition shows you how to leverage social networks and the rapidly increasing number of mobile apps to locate family members and trace their histories You ll discover how to start your investigation develop a research plan of action identify sites and resources that will be of the most use to you get information from government records preserve electronic materials and share your findings with the rest of the family Shows you how to conduct research into family history using the latest online tools mobile apps and other resourcesExplains how to use online and offline research techniques and tools for genealogical research find and share information with other genealogists and create your own site to showcase your family tree digital images and compiled genealogiesIncludes access to free versions of RootsMagic Essentials and Legacy Family Tree Standard Edition as well as information on free websites for storing your genealogical informationCovers DNA research and testing new geocoding applications U S Census information available online international records public access catalogs and moreGenealogy Online For Dummies 7th Edition helps you follow the clues to uncover your family s legacy the fun and easy wayNoble Gas, Penny Black
By David O Meara. 2008
Winner of the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region) and shortlisted for…
the 2009 ReLit Award Lucid accurate detail and music at every turn.Many of the poems in Noble Gas, Penny Black explore the subject of departure and arrival, an ongoing theme in David O’Meara’s work. Travel – being between places, in stations and airports and unfamiliar cities – creates a psychological, emotional space rife with reassessment, where the individual dwells simultaneously in the future and in the past. At the same time O’Meara imbues the domestic with a similar compelling transience, in poems on love and current events, where “History’s narrowed eye” roams landscapes “felt / but never held, like wind over water.” O’Meara give us lucid, accurate detail and music at every turn, and is entangled enough with the world to make us ache. "[There are] lines from Noble Gas, Penny Black, where the syllables are, let me incautiously say, near-perfect."-Don ColesNow You Know Pirates
By Doug Lennox. 2008
Shiver me timbers and avast ye hearties! We think we know pirates, from Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow to…
Errol Flynn as Captain Blood, or literature's Long John Silver and Captain Hook. But what do we really know? The true Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Sir Henry Morgan, and lots more, from ancient keelhauling to twenty-first-century buccaneering, are all here in Q & A commodore Doug Lennox's Now You Know Pirates. Arrrr! What is the origin of the word pirate? Who were the Barbary Corsairs? What did pirates do to St. Patrick? What is the difference between a pirate and a privateer? What is the Oak Island Treasure? How many female pirates have there been? What are "pieces of eight" and "doubloons"? Who were the buccaneers? How old is piracy?Now You Know
By Catriona Wight, Doug Lennox. 2003
Why are golf assistants called caddies? Why do the British drive on the left and North Americans on the right?…
Why is football played on a "gridiron," and a leg injury called a "Charlie horse"? The answers to these questions and the origins of hundreds of other expressions and customs are brought together in this fascinating collection of the history behind everyday words and routines. With all the conciseness of his original radio scripts, Doug Lennox "cuts to the quick" in telling you the things you always wanted to know.Now You Know Big Book of Answers 2
By Doug Lennox. 2008
Once again Doug Lennox, the toastmaster of trivia, serves up a mammoth selection of some of his most cherished Q&As…
culled from his previous books. Also featured in this wide-ranging compendium are 150 brand-new questions answered with Doug’s inimitable flair for unearthing intriguing arcana on everything from animals and the arts to superstitions and show business. Customs, conventions, expressions, everyday words, rituals, and traditions – Doug has dug deep to deliver the goods on a vast array of perplexing subjects.Why is a warm autumn called "Indian summer"?What is the origin of "nicknames"?Why is a decorated parade vehicle called a "float"?Why is the rubber around a car wheel called a "tire"?Why are sailors known as "tars"?Why is a bad dream called a "nightmare"?Why are published periodicals called "magazines"?Loyalist Literature
By Robert S. Allen. 1982
This highly readable guide is more than a bibliography. Written in a narrative style, it is as well a short…
history of the Loyalists: who they were, why they left, where they settled, and what their legacy is.The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2019 (World Almanac and Book of Facts)
By Sarah Janssen.. 2018
Get thousands of fully searchable facts at your fingertips with this essential resource.The World Almanac® and Book of Facts is…
America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 82 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for all your entertainment, reference, and learning needs. The 2019 edition of The World Almanac reviews the events of 2018 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics and information" by The Wall Street Journal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts will answer all of your trivia needs on demand—from history and sports to geography, pop culture, and much more. Features include: The World at a Glance: This annual feature of The World Almanac provides a quick look at the surprising stats and curious facts that define the changing world and includes a sneak peek at upcoming milestone celebrity birthdays in 2019. Statistical Spotlight: A popular new feature highlights statistics relevant to the biggest stories of the year. These data visualizations provide important context and new perspectives to give readers a fresh angle on important issues. This year’s statistics will spotlight immigration, refugees, and asylum claims; the rising number and historic cost of natural disasters; and the nationwide opioid epidemic. 2018 Election Results: The World Almanac provides a comprehensive look at the entire 2018 election process, including complete Election Day results for House, Senate, and gubernatorial races. World Almanac Editors' Picks: Senior Moments: With leading athletes like Tom Brady and Serena Williams approaching middle age while still at the top of their game, The World Almanac editors look at the sports world’s most memorable achievements by aging athletes. The Year in Review: The World Almanac takes a look back at 2018 while providing all the information you'll need in 2019. 2018—Top 10 News Topics: The editors of The World Almanac list the top stories that held the world's attention in 2018, covering the U.S. Supreme Court nomination process, historic negotiations with North Korea, a year of #MeToo developments, and much more. 2018—Year in Sports: Hundreds of pages of trivia and statistics that are essential for any sports fan, featuring complete coverage of the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, World Cup men's soccer, the World Series, improved MLB player stats, and much more. 2018—Year in Pictures: Striking full-color images from around the world in 2018, covering news, entertainment, science, and sports. 2018—Offbeat News Stories: The World Almanac editors select some of the most unusual news stories of the year, from the parade commemorating a team’s winless NFL season to the “bananas” lawsuit over a Halloween costume. World Almanac Editors' Picks: Time Capsule: The World Almanac lists the items that most came to symbolize the year 2018, from news and sports to pop culture. Other New Highlights: Brand-new statistics on crime rates for all major U.S. cities, U.S. trade and immigration policies, 2018 tax cuts, DACA recipients, mobile app and tech usage, student loan debt, income inequality, and much more.The Way of Chuang Tzu: A Personal And Spiritual Interpretation Of The Classic Philosopher Of Taoism (Shambhala Pocket Classics Ser.)
By Thomas Merton, Dalai Lama Xiv. 1997
Classic writings from the great Zen master in exquisite versions by Thomas Merton, in a new edition with a preface…
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesperson for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu's writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other Taoist sages that Indian Buddhism was transformed, in China, into the unique vehicle we now call by its Japanese name--Zen. The Chinese sage abounds in wit and paradox and shattering insights into the true ground of being. Thomas Merton, no stranger to Asian thought, brings a vivid, modern idiom to the timeless wisdom of Tao.Now You Know Canada
By Doug Lennox. 2017
A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday. Just in time for Canada’s…
150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and everything in between. In these pages, you’ll learn the answers to questions like: Where did the word Canuck come from? How did an aristocratic French girl become a Canadian Robinson Crusoe? What famous explorer played hockey in the Arctic? Who was the first black woman elected to Canada’s Parliament? What unlikely team beat Canada for the gold medal for hockey in the 1936 Winter Olympics? How did the Halifax Explosion occur?Revenge of the Lunch Ladies: The Hilarious Book of School Poetry (Giggle Poetry)
By Kenn Nesbitt, Mike Gordon, Carl Gordon. 2007
The lunch ladies will finally have their revenge! From the lunch ladies getting back at kids who complain about cafeteria…
food, to principals who disappear into thin air, school has never been so funny. Revenge of the Lunch Ladies is sure to keep the laughs coming with each giggle-packed page. Kenn Nesbitt has created forty-five silly poems and songs all about school. By night, Kenn Nesbitt is a genius criminal mastermind whose work is so secret, even he doesn't know what it is. By day, he is a masked crimefighter whose sworn duty is to defeat his own diabolical plots. When not saving the world from himself, Kenn Nesbitt can be found writing funny poetry at poetry4kids.com and visiting schools nationwide. The lunch ladies will finally have their revenge! From the lunch ladies getting back at kids who complain about cafeteria food, to principals who disappear into thin air, school has never been so funny. Revenge of the Lunch Ladies is sure to keep the laughs coming with each giggle-packed page. Kenn Nesbitt has created forty-five silly poems and songs all about school. Following the success of When the Teacher Isn't Looking, this book combines Nesbitt's talent and sense of humor to deliver a knee-slapping collection. If silly principals and crazy lunch ladies don't have you laughing, a science project that ate the student's dog will!Correspondence
By Kathleen Graber. 2005
"Correspondence," writes Mark Doty, "is a fresh accomplishment, swift with feeling and intelligence, the work of a restless critical mind…
mapping its way toward a way to bear the weight of love." Kathleen Graber's debut book takes us on a trip through history and time, varying her subjects with speed and seamlessness, to a dizzying, dazzling effect. From the Philadelphia Eagles to Cornell's boxes, from a fertility clinic to Daguerre's prints, from Kafka to running over two cats, from Annette Benning to Marianne Moore, Kathleen Graber's poems embrace what her inquisitive mind traverses, ensnaring past and present, familiar and foreign, soulful and scientific, in a celebration of chaos that is generous and healing.INRI
By Norma Cole, William Rowe, Raul Zurita. 2018
A harrowing meditation on tyranny, torture, and freedom by one of Chilé's most celebrated contemporary poets.In 2001, the president of…
Chile publicly acknowledged that many of the bodies of the people who had disappeared under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet would never be recovered. The victims had been flown up in planes and, after having their eyes gouged out, were ejected over the mountains and deserts of Chile or the Pacific Ocean. Raúl Zurita’s INRI (these are of course the letters nailed to the cross on which Jesus was crucified, identifying him as Jesus Christ, King of the Jews) is a visionary, prescient response to this atrocity, an agonized and deeply moving elegy for the dead in which the whole of Chile, with its snow-covered cordilleras, fields of wild flowers, empty spaces, and the sparkling sea beyond, is simultaneously transformed into the grave of its lost children and their living and risen body. This incantatory, prophetic work—prophetic in the same way that Jeremiah and Isaiah are prophetic, which is to say unapologetically political— is one of the great poems of our new century.Lianne's Quick Guide for the Busy Woman: Babies 0-6 months
By Cristina Jimenez Peralta, Lianne Marie Bergeron. 2011
The first 6 months are often the most overwhelming. Not only are you a first time mother and you have…
a baby to take care of, you are also still juggling the rest of your responsibilities. This book is full of questions & answers that cover daily encounters that you and your baby will experience in your first 6 months. It is based on my experience and that of other mothers and should help you feel like you are not alone in this new and exciting but sometimes overwhelming world of motherhood.This Radiant Life
By Chantal Neveu. 2020
In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution and corporeal movement to forge…
intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable of holding life and death, solidarity and love. Renewal. Breathing. In its brevity and persistence, This Radiant Life is a material call for action: it asks us to let go, even just a little bit, of our individuality in favour of mutuality, to arrive separately yet in unison at a radiance in which all living beings can thrive.Tardes de otoño y café | Desperté en tu piel
By Montserrat García Pino. 2018
El oto o es poca de nostalgia si ntelo en tu piel El amor…
es un tren de doble v a en una tarde de oto o Comienza el fr o y la lluvia moja tu alma Si ntate frente a una roca junto al mar y lee P P Disfruta del dolor del placer de la suavidad de las palabras con las que la poetisa Montserrat Garc a relata esos peque os fragmentos impregnados de historias reales P Historias que creer s haber vivido en determinados momentos y de otras que sentir s que te quedan a n por vivir Ponte por un momento en su piel y siente el escalofr o que producen sus palabras y que seguro no te dejar n indiferente P Tardes de oto o y caf es un poemario escrito desde el alma de una mujer que contiene una segunda parte Despert en tu piel donde adopta el rol de un hombre enamorado escribiendo hacia el sue o de una mujerWar Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Faber Pocket Poetry Ser.)
By Siegfried Sassoon. 2004
At the dawn of World War I poet Sassoon exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket fox-hunting and…
romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War and includes Counter-Attack They The General and Base DetailsParanormal expert Hans Holzer investigates the strangest cases of possession—the rare and disturbing instances when a ghost attaches itself to…
a living person Professor Hans Holzer explores the chilling phenomenon of possession: when a ghost is not yet ready to pass on to the next stage and thus inhabits a living person. These cases are not nearly as common as haunted houses or places, but do occur. In Haunted People, Holzer investigates chilling reports of ghosts who have attached themselves to living hosts.These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry By Latin American Women (Secret Weavers #7)
By Isabel Allende, Marjorie Agosín. 2000
This reprint of a White Pine Press classic brings together an astonishing range of work from the turn of the…
century to the present. Despite cultural maxims encouraging them to be silent, women continue to speak, often through the language of poetry, where there is an abundance of intuition and the possibility of reclaiming power through language. In the work included here, we see how the common threads of courage and inventiveness can be woven into a bright tapestry of women’s voices that presents a true picture of a culture that must create its own history. Over fifty poets, including those well-known, such as Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, and Cristina Peri Rossi, and those just emerging are included. Marjorie Agos n, editor of the Secret Weavers series, is well-known as a poet, writer, and human rights activist. She is a professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.Odes To Lithium
By Shira Erlichman. 2019
Captivating poems and visual art seek to bring comfort and solidarity to anyone living with Bipolar Disorder. In this remarkable…
debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication for Bipolar Disorder. With inventiveness, compassion, and humor, she thrusts us into a world of unconventional praise. From an unexpected encounter with her grandmother's ghost, to a bubble bath with Bjӧrk, to her plumber's confession that he, too, has Bipolar, Erlichman buoyantly topples stigma against the mentally ill. These are necessary odes to self-acceptance, resilience, and the jagged path toward healing. With startling language, and accompanied by her bold drawings and collages, she gives us a sparkling, original view into what makes us human.