Florida is renowned for sun, surf, sand and senior citizens, and is a favourite holiday destination for more than a million Brits each year. But it is also one of the best places to chart your weirdest travel destinations. Charlie Carlson, a tenth-generation Floridian, has travelled the length of Florida looking for the odd and the offbeat, and he found them everywhere, from the Skunk Ape to the Devil's Chair of Cassadaga, from the She-Man of the Caloosahatchee River to the Wizard of Central Florida. This latest addition to the "Weird US" series is packed with info about the Sunshine State tha... [Read More]
Praise for Weird Florida: “…this series is distinguished by its focus on stories over places and its colorful photos.” —Library Journal
When George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied—thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring. He realized that he couldn’t defeat the British with military might, so he recruited a sophisticated and deeply secretive intelligence network to infiltrate New York.Drawing on extensive research, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger have offered fascinating portraits of these spies: a reserved Quaker merchant, a tavern keeper, a brash young longshorem... [Read More]
"Hidden Mickey Guy" Steven Barrett searches all through the theme parks and resort hotels and everywhere else on Walt Disney World property for camouflaged images of Mickey Mouse to bring his Field Guide to Walt Disney World's Hidden Mickeys up-to-date with his latest findings. Six scavenger hunts offer cryptic clues to Mickey's hiding places in the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, the Disney World Resort Hotels, and everywhere else on Disney World property. Compete with family and friends to spot Mickey, or simply search for him wherever you find your... [Read More]
"Hidden Mickey Guy" Steven Barrett searches all four of the Disney Cruise Line ships for camouflaged images of Mickey Mouse to bring his field guide to maritime "Hidden Mickeys" up-to-date with his latest findings. Four scavenger hunts offer cryptic clues to Mickey's hiding places aboard the Disney Dream, the Disney Fantasy, the Disney Magic, and the Disney Wonder. A fifth scavenger hunt covers the landlubber Mickeys hiding on Castaway Cay, Disney's private island in the Bahamas. Compete or join with family and friends to spot Mickey. Or simply search for him wherever you find yourself on sea ... [Read More]
Meet Amy Winter: Detective Inspector, daughter of a serial killer.DI Amy Winter is hoping to follow in the footsteps of her highly respected police officer father. But when a letter arrives from the prison cell of Lillian Grimes, one half of a notorious husband-and-wife serial-killer team, it contains a revelation that will tear her life apart.Responsible for a string of heinous killings decades ago, Lillian is pure evil. A psychopathic murderer. And Amy’s biological mother. Now, she is ready to reveal the location of three of her victims—but only if Amy plays along with her twisted game.W... [Read More]
From Amazon Top 20, WSJ, and USA Today Bestseller Vivian Wood comes...Freshly out of combat, ex-SEAL Sawyer Roman comes home with one goal in mind: he wants to get his family ranch off the ground. He expects his two brothers to be by his side, but there is one person he doesn’t expect. Remy River, the only girl to capture his wild heart. A fierce blonde with a body that won’t quit, she’s still bitter over the way Sawyer just vanished into military service without saying goodbye. Now that he’s back, damaged but hotter than ever, he finds himself attracted to her all over again. Though... [Read More]
What's Weird Around Here?That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon,Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread: several key locales throughout the U.S. are getting the full Weird treatment, with travel guides to the strange, bizarre, and wacky. Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture—it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculia... [Read More]
From the front flap of this 255 page book: "We don't want to argue with all of our state's motto (wisdom, justice, moderation), only with the moderation part. This is a state where one guy's home is a tree house with an airplane stuck through it for his bedroom. We've got a twenty-foot-tall rabbit sculpture holding an Olympic torch and a tombstone that's a seven-foot-long marble elephant. And there's a flower garden in Toccoa where a forty-pound iceberg somehow landed. This is great stuff, and nothing moderate about any of it. Who better to chronicle the weirdness in Georgia than Jim Miles, a ... [Read More]
Take a walk on the WEIRD side, Carolina-style! What makes the Carolinas--North and South--so strange, spooky, wild, and wacky? Follow former Charleston resident Roger Manley and find out: Spanish moss reaches out from dark trees on lonely roads, the Great Dismal Swamp shelters unknown beasts, the coastline is marked with hidden inlets where pirates buried treasures and German U-boats prowled. And it's rumored the Devil has Tramping Grounds in both states! We promise, it's an adventure you'll never forget.
Virginia is for lovers…and psychics, devil monkeys, and the world's oldest ham. This homage to all things peculiar in the Old Dominion is bursting with the must-see spots other guides leave out. Check out all six haunted sides of the Octagon house, then drop by Foamhenge, a full-scale Styrofoam replica of Stonehenge. It doesn't get weirder than this!
Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them--Set--has... [Read More]
Take a walk on the WEIRD side, Carolina-style! What makes the Carolinas--North and South--so strange, spooky, wild, and wacky? Follow former Charleston resident Roger Manley and find out: Spanish moss reaches out from dark trees
Camouflaged images of Mickey Mouse are hidden all around the Disney Cruise Line's four ships. Searching for them adds extra fun to any Disney cruise. In this new edition, "Hidden Mickey Guy" Steven Barrett brings
Enjoy a relaxing picnic in Shades of Death Park. Witness those eerie glowing spots known as Moody's Light. Slap another layer of color onto the world's biggest ball of paint, and yes, that really is
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