mental floss presents Instant Knowledge (Collins Gem)

5 best books like mental floss presents Instant Knowledge (Collins Gem) (Mental Floss): Wicked Lovely, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Keturah and Lord Death, I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

Wicked Lovely

Author	Melissa Marr
ISBN	0061214655

Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.
Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty - especially if they learn of her Sight - and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.

Rule #2: Don't speak...

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Author	Elizabeth Gilbert
ISBN	0670021652

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever,...

Keturah and Lord Death

Author	Martine Leavitt
ISBN	1932425292

Martine Leavitt offers a spellbinding story, interweaving elements of classic fantasy and high romance in this National Book Award Finalist. Keturah follows a legendary hart into the king's forest, where she becomes hopelessly lost. Her strength diminishes until, finally, she realizes that death...

I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World

Author	Jag Bhalla
ISBN	1426204582

"I’m not hanging noodles on your ears." In Moscow, this curious, engagingly colorful assertion is common parlance, but unless you’re Russian your reaction is probably "Say what?" The same idea in English is equally odd: "I’m not pulling your leg." Both mean: Believe me.

As author Jag...

Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

Author	Jeffrey Long
ISBN	0061452556

“There is currently more scientific evidence to the reality of near death experience (NDE) than there is for how to effectively treat certain forms of cancer,” states radiation oncologist Dr. Jeffrey Long is his groundbreaking new book Evidence of the Afterlife.

In 1998 Dr. Long and...