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A Bay Area artist is transforming pages from damaged books into works of art through "Book Art and Other Oddities." The artist began making flowers, which are the bestsellers at The Book Rescuers ...
The book is really an attempt to both explore what’s going on in research, in cosmology and our understanding of the universe at the moment, but also set this in some kind of context and say ...
The full-color book contains 50 oddities that readers of the Arizona Daily Star have inquired about over the years. Click here to purchase the book online.
We're venturing into the uncharted territory of literary oddities to make you wonder why you ever read ordinary books. The post Strange But True: 31 Books To Leave You Asking, “Why?” first appeared on ...
Cool, quirky and fun is a good way to describe Black Cat Books & Oddities. That much is evident from the exterior alone. The store is located at 420 S. Court St., ...
THE AMERICAN IRISH by William V. Shannon. 458 pages. Macmillan. $7.95.In the late 1800s, long lines formed outside saloons all over New York City. But the queuers were not thirsty; they were there ...
Ripley’s annual book of oddities and accomplishments is again on sale. This one features a car made out of wood, one exceptionally bendy British gal, a pickle-juice drinking competition and ...
The Morgan Library show centers on the Getty’s “Book of Marvels of the World,” ca. 1460-65, by an anonymous author and illustrator, Master of the Geneva Boccaccio.
The photograph on the cover of Jerome Pohlen's book "Oddball Illinois" was taken at a suburban Chicago shopping center where eight cars are piled one upon the other and skewered by a single spike ...