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100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities

10 best books like 100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities (Russ Kick): The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life, Book of Secrets, Eisenhower, Dealing in Futures, Exiles To Glory, World War II, 50 Facts That Should Change The World 2.0, The Breakout Novelist: Craft and Strategies for Career Fiction Writers, The Zenda Vendetta, Mental Floss: Scatterbrained

The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life
AuthorBill O'Reilly
ISBN0767905296
The million-copy New York Times bestseller from the Fox News anchor who’s brought new excitement–and massive amounts of populist common sense and rock-solid honesty–to television news.

Now four seasons strong, Bill O’Reilly’s nightly cable news program, “The O’Reilly...
Book of Secrets
AuthorThomas Eaton
ISBN0740755617
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

Did you know Pope John VIII was actually a woman? Or that the U.S. Government smashed a bacteria-laden lightbulb in a New York subway station in 1966 to see how long it would take to travel throughout the entire system? You will after reading the...
Eisenhower
AuthorGeoffrey Perret
ISBN1580624316
https://bestpresidentialbios.com/2017...

“Eisenhower” by Geoffrey Perret was published in 1999, two years after the publication of his biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Perret is an author and historian and served for three years in the U.S. Army. Among his dozen published books are...
Dealing in Futures
AuthorJoe Haldeman
ISBN0451452585
As my first foray into Haldeman's writing, I was swept away with his twists and turns and original plots. Some stories were not overtly science fiction and I appreciated them equally. I was quite impressed with how much he could convey with so little and can't wait to pick up a novel to see where he takes...
Exiles To Glory
AuthorJerry Pournelle
ISBN0441222188
Kevin Senecal was nobody's hero. All he wanted from life was a professional career, a strong union to protect him, and a comfortable company-owned housing well away from his Welfare Slum origins. As a senior engineering student at Cal Tech, Kevin seemed on the verge of realizing his ambitions, when...
World War II
AuthorH.P. Willmott
ISBN0756651425
The book has ten chapters: the first is an analysis of the build-up to the war, the next seven chapters cover the war itself and the final chapter examines how victory for the USA and the USSR shaped the subsequent history of the 20th century. The chapters are arranged as far as possible to give a clear chronological...
50 Facts That Should Change The World 2.0
AuthorJessica Williams
ISBN1932857907
Jessica Williams revisits her classic series of snapshots of life in the twenty-first century. Revised and updated with lots of new material, this book is every bit as vital as the first edition. From the inequalities and absurdities of the so-called developed world to the vast scale of suffering wreaked...
The Breakout Novelist: Craft and Strategies for Career Fiction Writers
AuthorDonald Maass
ISBN1582979901
The all-inclusive guide for novel writers

If you're serious about making your fiction vibrant, engaging, and marketable, you've found the right book. The Breakout Novelist gives you the craft and business know-how you need to make your book stand out.

Inside, veteran agent Donald...
The Zenda Vendetta
AuthorSimon Hawke
ISBN1584451149
In he kingdom of Ruritania, Prince Rudolf is about to be crowned king. Instead, due to the machinations of his half-brother, he becomes the "Prisoner of Zenda."

That was back in the 19th century. But history is about to repeat itself--with a twist. The TIMEKEEPERS, the terrorist underground...
Mental Floss: Scatterbrained
AuthorMental Floss
ISBN0060882506
The bathroom read to end all bathroom reads!

What does Greece (the country) have to do with Grease (the movie)? And what does Grease (the movie) have to do with greasy food? Plenty, if you ask the folks at mental_floss.

Based on the magazine's "Scatterbrained" section, the mental_floss...
4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone
AuthorBarbara Ann Kipfer
ISBN0375720812
4,000 ways to achieve instant intimacy

What, more than anything, makes you angry?
Who were your childhood idols?
What kind of leader are you most inclined to follow?

What has happened to the art of conversation? In the age of Internet chat rooms, speed dating, and frantic...
Hypnosis for Beginners: Reach New Levels of Awareness & Achievement
AuthorWilliam W. Hewitt
This friendly introductory guide to hypnosis will show you how to achieve your dreams using hypnosis and self-hypnosis. Completely relaxing and natural, hypnosis is a highly effective way to reach personal goals, overcome phobias and fears, eliminate bad habits, improve memory--the possibilities...
The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History
AuthorJoshua Piven
ISBN0811845400
Best-seller history repeats itself with this dynamic new "almanac" format that broadens the scope and content of the Worst-Case Scenario handbooks. The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac: History offers step-by-step illustrated scenarios on how to win a joust, survive in a dungeon, and overcome other...
Book of Totally Useless Information
AuthorDon Voorhees
ISBN1567312667
Here is enough useless information for everyone. In "The Book of Totally Useless Information", Don Voorhees has compiled over two hundred explanations for the not-so-important questions in life. Why is the sky blue? Why does orange juice taste funny after you brush your teeth? Why is a left-handed...
Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles
AuthorRichard B. McKenzie
ISBN0387769994
- How Prices Matter rices are ubiquitous, so much so that their importance to the smooth operation of a market economy (even one constrained by extensive polit- P ical controls as is the case in China) can go unnoticed and unheralded. Prices are what all trades, whether at the local mall or across the globe,...
The Nighttime Novelist: Finish Your Novel in Your Spare Time
AuthorJoseph Bates
ISBN1582978468
Make Every Creative Moment CountFranz Kafka was an insurance agent. William Faulkner was a postmaster. Stephen King taught high school English, John Grisham was an attorney, and Toni Morrison worked in publishing. Though romantic fantasies of the writing life don't often include a day job, the fact...
The Big Book of Brain Games: 1,000 PlayThinks of Art, Mathematics Science
AuthorIvan Moscovich
ISBN0761134662
About the original 1000 PlayThinks,Will Shortz of The New York Times said it best: “The most wide-ranging, visually appealing, entertaining, gigantic collection of brainteasers since Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles almost a century ago.” Inside The Big Book of Brain Games, you will find...
Magic Eye 1: A New Way of Looking at the World
AuthorMagic Eye Inc.
ISBN0836270061
I was rather disappointed by this book. The 3D images were for the most part rather simplistic, not nearly as nice as the first 3D picture that I've learned to see (which was an image of a young king, dressed in medieval sort of clothes, with a cape and a sword, and a crown of course which is why I say "a king")....
The Philadelphia Experiment
AuthorCharles Frambach Berlitz
ISBN0285629999
One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . .
Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a green fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia!
For over thirty-six years officials have...
That's Not All Folks: My Life in the Golden Age of Cartoons and Radio
AuthorMel Blanc
ISBN0446390895
This book has been in my possession since it was first published decades ago. I wanted to read something that would educate and entertain, and also a book I could carry easily while traveling. It is wildly entertaining. Mel's quips were laugh-out-loud funny. I was surprised Mel was not a New Yorker because...
Stuff Every Woman Should Know
AuthorAlanna Kalb
ISBN1594744440
This pocket-sized handbook features all the skills a modern lady needs!

This little gift book is packed with tips, tricks, and life hacks for women who need to know everything. With advice on etiquette and social situations, entertaining and cooking tips, do-it-yourself instructions,...
Clifford's Blues
AuthorJohn A. Williams
ISBN1566890802
The best hard reading I have ever done

I have a degree in history and consider myself fairly knowledgeable about World War II and Holocaust, but Clifford's Blues was the most difficult account-- fictional or otherwise-- that I have ever read. It took me more than a year to finish because ever...
A Stranger in the Family: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and Unconditional Love
AuthorSteven Naifeh
ISBN0451406222
Who would ever connect this handsome, charming, straight-arrow son of a perfect all-American family with the gruesome crimes of a serial killer? Richard Daniel Starrett was the dangerous visitor for too many unlucky young women in Georgia and South Carolina in the late 1980s. Answering "for sale"...
Castaways in Time
AuthorRobert Adams
ISBN0451126645
Every minute spent reading this book was a tedious chore. The period language combined with dialogue in horrific phonetic accents makes it a painful struggle to get through. It took me two and a half months to finish when I usually read a book in a few days.
The whole book is really just following the...
An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
AuthorLewis Spence
ISBN1596052376
This "compendium of information on the occult sciences, occult personalities, psychic science, demonology, spiritism, and mysticism" was one of a kind when it was first published in 1920 and is still considered the best in its field today. Spence organizes a world's worth of magic -- from "Ab" (a magical...
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