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10 best books like Book of Secrets (Thomas Eaton): Under the Covers and Between the Sheets: The Inside Story Behind Classic Characters, Authors, Unforgettable Phrases, and Unexpected Endings, Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things, Age of Godpunk: Collecting Age of Anansi, Age of Satan and Age of Gaia, Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets, Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing: Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, ... Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion, Mental Floss: Scatterbrained, An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge, History's Greatest Lies: The Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong, Forbidden Knowledge: 101 Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Do, The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy

Under the Covers and Between the Sheets: The Inside Story Behind Classic Characters, Authors, Unforgettable Phrases, and Unexpected Endings
AuthorC. Alan Joyce
ISBN1606520342
Bibliophiles, grab your glasses! Here is a compendium of interesting--and often scandalous--facts and quips about the literary world. Featuring authors and tomes of yesteryear and yesterday, from Tolkien's Middle- earth to Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex, you'll sections such as:
You Don't...
Sneakiest Uses for Everyday Things
AuthorCy Tymony
ISBN0740768743
: How to make a Boomerang with a Business Card,Convert a Pencil into a Microphone, Make Animated Origami,Turn a TV Tray ... Create Alternative Energy Science Projects

Science-savvy author Tymony shows readers how to transform ordinary objects into the extraordinary, and how to create more...
Age of Godpunk: Collecting Age of Anansi, Age of Satan and Age of Gaia
AuthorJames Lovegrove
ISBN1781081298
James lovegrove presents three novellas with three different ‘gods’ and their apprearance in the worlds of man.

AGE Of ANANSI

An original stand-alone novella in James Lovegrove's best selling Patheon series.

Dion Yeboah leads an orderly, disciplined life... until...
Mental Floss: Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets
AuthorMangesh Hattikudur
ISBN0060882514
Friends? Romans? Countrymen?
You never know whom you'll have to impress
at your next corporate shindig or keg party.

Whatever the target audience, mental_floss knows staring facedown into the punch bowl isn't the trick. In fact, that's exactly why we're handing you Cocktail Party...
Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing: Glow in the Dark, Control the Weather, Perform Your Own Surgery, Get Out of Jury Duty, Identify a Witch, Colonize a Nation, ... Girl, Make a Zombie, Start Your Own Religion
AuthorMaggie Koerth-Baker
ISBN0061251488
Be amazing

Who says you can't? It's time to get off the couch and take your life to the next level.

Step one: stand on the shoulders of geniuses

What good are the world's greatest geniuses if you can't muddy their shoulder pads and use their accomplishments as a step stool? mental_floss...
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...
An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human Knowledge
AuthorRichard Zacks
ISBN0385483767
The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human

Forget the history you were taught in school; Richard Zacks's version is crueler and funnier than anything you might have learned...
History's Greatest Lies: The Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong
AuthorWilliam Weir
ISBN1592333362
The true stories behind historical events give readers a fascinating new look at our past. The revelations shock and amaze by exposing veiled motivations and convenient inaccuracies in well-documented actions by established leaders that often have a continuing effect on the world.Each of the fifteen...
Forbidden Knowledge: 101 Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Do
AuthorMichael Powell
ISBN1598695258
Hm. What I learned from this book?
1) How to tell if your neighbor is a zombie (and what to do about it).
2) How to read entrails to predict the future.
3) How to hotwire a car.
4) How to walk on hot coals
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75) How to write a cheeziass book. JK - many of these articles are fairly...
The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
AuthorRick Beyer
ISBN0060014016
History isn't always made by great armies colliding or by great civilizations rising or falling. Sometimes it's made when a chauffeur takes a wrong turn, a scientist forgets to clean up his lab, or a drunken soldier gets a bit rowdy. That's the kind of history you'll find in The Greatest Stories Never...
Mental Floss presents In the Beginning: From Big Hair to the Big Bang, mental_floss presents a Mouthwatering Guide to the Origins of Everything
AuthorWill Pearson
Sure, you know all about the birds and bees. But did Dad ever tell you that it wasn't a stork that put that shiny can opener in your kitchen drawer? Or paperclips started out as proud, Nazi-fighting warriors? And did he tell you how cruise control was originally conceived by a blind genius? From mullets...
Nightfall
AuthorJames Swallow
ISBN1905586140
In the distant Pegasus galaxy, the scientists and soldiers of the Atlantis expedition push back the frontiers of knowledge and exploration; in the city of the Ancients, new challenges and old secrets are waiting to be unlocked. Far from home, ranged against lethal enemies the Atlantis team must fight...
The Interesting Bits: The History You Might Have Missed
AuthorJustin Pollard
ISBN0719524202
The Interesting Bits: The History You Might Have is one of those wonderful entertaining and informative books on the lines of QI.

Justin Pollard has that wonderful knack of writing short, concise and so satisfying descriptions of the bits of History that we have missed.

As you would...
Mirror, Mirror
AuthorSabine C. Bauer
ISBN1905586124
Wasn't too impressed with the book editing. I mean, it's not very often that you can find a spelling mistake in a published novel! My spelling is horrible, but McKay being "looked up in a cell" [locked!] should have been caught.

Next, I think the author is a very cleaver and witty person, but she...
Family Guy: Stewie's Guide To World Domination (Family Guy)
AuthorSteve Callaghan
For the first time ever a cancelled show has been resurrected on the basis of its cult following in syndication, on the internet and on DVD (Over 2.2 million DVDs sold to date ) and we've got the tie-in book authored by one of the show's hilarious lead writers and animators At first sight, the Griffens may...
Death Game
AuthorJo Graham
ISBN1905586477
It was a bit of an ordeal actually getting a hold of this book. It was available for several weeks through the publisher while Amazon still had it down as a Pre-Order with an unknown ship date. I eventually got frustrated enough to cancel my pre-order and order directly from the publisher. Was the book worth...
Pocket Ref
AuthorThomas J. Glover
ISBN1885071337
Pocket Ref is an amazing reference containing 544 pages of tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions. Best of all, it fits in your shirt pocket! (3.2" x 5.4" x 0.7")The following chapters are contained in Pocket Ref:
-- Air
-- Automotive
-- Carpentry & Construction
--...
The Complete Manual of Things That Might Kill You: A Guide to Self-Diagnosis for Hypochondriacs
AuthorMegan E. Bluhm Foldenauer
ISBN1601060351
Hypochondriacs have long had to satisfy their needs for self-diagnosis with medical reference materials written for the masses, but this revolutionary book is dedicated entirely to the hypochondriac's unique perspective on health. The world's worst maladies, conveniently organized by symptom...
How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything
AuthorAaron Santos
ISBN0762435607
How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many people are having sex at this moment? How long would it take a monkey on a typewriter to produce the plays of Shakespeare? For all those questions that keep you up at night, here's the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it's all approximate!Using...
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things
AuthorCharles Panati
ISBN0060964197
A good blend of history and speculation. The author sorts by various criteria--origins of superstitions; holidays; customs; inventions and much more!

Many people might just dip into this type of book just looking for certain infomration--but I read it entirely and found the writing well...
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