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Anne Archet est connue pour ses récits érotiques et les textes polémiques qu'elle publie sur le web depuis la fin des années 1990. Avec Le vide: mode d'emploi, cette écrivaine caustique, fulgurante, volontiers provocatrice et un brin mythomane, s'essaie à un nouveau genre: l'aphorisme.
Les brefs commentaires sur le monde d'aujourd'hui dont est composé cet essai sont autant de petites grenades lancées pour faire éclater nos certitudes,...
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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee Digest & Review. Go Set a Watchman is the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird (although it was actually written first). It centers around twenty-something Jean Louise "Scout" Finch leaving New York City and coming back home to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father and other friends and family. Her return home brings back turbulent issues from her childhood regarding politics and racial tension, and it brings some shocking...
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Want to impress your friends and family with both useful, worthless but undeniably interesting facts?Then Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1400 Random But Mind Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture and Everything in Between is the book for you!In this book you'll find the answers to questions such as:When did zero become a number?Who was the inventor of Bitcoin?What did the Big Bang sound like?How have sports changed around the world?What's...
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The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel Digest & Review With this digest companion, you'll enjoy: • A digest of the The Astronaut Wives Club • Content for your book club or other group event. • Stories beyond the digest and tidbits you may not know • The book's impact and its important to read • And more!
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Trivia-on-Book: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Charles Belfoure. You may have read the book, but not have liked it.
You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.
You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you?
Trivia-on-Books is a quiz-formatted trivia on the book for readers, students, and fans alike. Whether you're looking for new materials to the book or would like to take the challenge yourself and share it with your friends and family...
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Trivia-on-Book: Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. You may have read the book, but not have liked it.
You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.
You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you?
Trivia-on-Books is an independent quiz-formatted trivia on the book for readers, students, and fans alike. Whether you're looking for new materials to the book or would like to take the challenge yourself and share it with your friends...
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Trivia-on-Book: The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty. Three women - three different lives with their unique problems and daily struggles. Little do they know how the secret that is about to be revealed is going to change their existence and bring to light some dark mysteries and lies from the past. When Cecilia finds a letter from her husband meant to be opened after his death, she can't resist, even though John-Paul is still alive and well. The...
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In Why We Kiss Under the Mistletoe, bestselling author Michael Foley dives deep into the history of Christmas and the customs that surround this beloved holiday. Learn about the fascinating origins of your favorite Christmas food, drink, observances, and songs. Discover how Saint Nicolas, a fourth-century Catholic bishop, became Santa Clause and who Santa’s global competitors are (some of them will shock you). And dig into the forbidden history...
69) Kansas Trivia
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Kansas Trivia is the who, what, when, where, and how book of the great state of Kansas. Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful and historic state, Kansas Trivia will provide hours of entertainment and education. Designed for use in a wide variety of settings - home, office, school, parties - it focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the fascinating Sunflower State....
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If coffee is the foundation of your food pyramid, then this is your book. Inspired by Ryoko Iwata's popular Web site, I Love Coffee (en.ilovecoffee.jp), Coffee Gives Me Superpowers is overflowing with infographics and fun, interesting facts about the most awesome beverage on earth written by Ryoko, a Japanese coffee-lover living in Seattle. The book includes the most popular pieces on the site, such as "Your Brain on Beer vs. Coffee," "10 Coffee...
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Southerners have a way with words! As Southern Living says "Southerner's shun the simple, the straightforward, and the direct in favor of more colorful means of self-expression, Southern style." There seems to be a Southern saying for every occasion. Some are inspiring and uplifting while others have that biting tongue-in-cheek humor Southerners adore.
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Discover how you can guard a priceless painting in the Louvre, pilot a space shuttle back to Earth, and survive other ridiculous-yet-possible scenarios using the all-encompassing power of mathematical equations. Whether you paid much attention in math class or not, the inescapable truth is that real life is full of equations. You use differentiation when driving from point A to B and apply basic geometry when you're crossing the road between traffic,...
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A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of “The Things That Nobody Knows”.
Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. “The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else” takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere.
The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied...
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Scan the QR codes to reveal the answers in the coolest quiz book craze sweeping the internet! This interactive quiz book allows you to instantly find out the answer just by scanning the QR code with your mobile phone. The answers are contained within the QR code - just scan the code and it will pop up in your app. Use any QR code scanner app for Blackberry, Android, iPhone or Windows devices. If you don't have one already installed then find out where...
75) Hey Gary
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A collection of dumb things the writer texted to his friend, Gary. Gary did not listen to any of these suggestions. You probably did not even read them. That's Gary for you. It is a dust devil of absurdist ideas and configurations. This could be the kind of book you need to read if you are waiting for the volcano to erupt. Author Jeffrey Campbell read some of this book and gave this blurb that's good enough to be on the cover, "Yeah. I think this...
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Scan the QR codes to reveal the answers in the coolest quiz book craze sweeping the internet! This interactive quiz book allows you to instantly find out the answer just by scanning the QR code with your mobile phone. The answers are contained within the QR code - just scan the code and it will pop up in your app. Use any QR code scanner app for Blackberry, Android, iPhone or Windows devices. If you don't have one already installed then find out where...
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From the author of The Portable Curmudgeon, a delicious, witty, irreverent A to Z guide to the tics, twitches and safety-valves that characterize our twisted, neurotic modern world.
We live in an Age of Anxiety. The events of modern life have overwhelmed the average homo sapiens until getting from Point A to Point B without being overcome by neuroses is a practical impossibility. Enter, the comic safety valve. Jon Winokur's Encyclopedia Neurotica...
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La route s'arrête à Galveston Island, Texas. C'est là que j'ai arrêté de boire. Un soir de janvier 1988, je tenais une bouteille de whisky presque vide d'une main et un revolver.38 chargé de l'autre. Je ne savais pas lequel porter à ma bouche. Pour une raison que je ne comprends pas encore très bien, je les ai déposés tous les deux. Depuis, par la grâce de ma Puissance supérieure, et avec l'aide du programme Douze Etapes et du mouvement...
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Discover the mother lode of trivia with this quirky collection of crap! Trivia for the Toilet: Double Duty offers up more than 250 odd-but-true facts and strange happenings, including:
• The Green Bay Packers' season ticket waiting list is so long that if you joined today, it would take you 955 years to make it to the top.
• Polar bears' hair is not actually white; it's transparent.
• One in every five people has dropped...
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Scan the QR codes to reveal the answers in the coolest quiz book craze sweeping the internet! This interactive quiz book allows you to instantly find out the answer just by scanning the QR code with your mobile phone. The answers are contained within the QR code - just scan the code and it will pop up in your app. Use any QR code scanner app for Blackberry, Android, iPhone or Windows devices. If you don't have one already installed then find out where...