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Weird But True! 4: 350 Outrageous Facts

Unleash Your Inner "Weirdophile"

Get ready for a wild ride through the wacky world of "Weird But True! 4"! This fourth installment in the wildly popular series delivers a mind-blowing collection of 350 outrageous facts, guaranteed to leave you saying "No way!" and "How is that even possible?!"

A World of Wonder Awaits

From the bizarre to the unbelievable, "Weird But True! 4" explores a diverse range of topics, each more fascinating than the last:

* **Science:** Prepare to be amazed by the quirky wonders of the natural world, like the fact that lemons can actually power lightbulbs!

* **Space:** Journey into the vast expanse of the cosmos and discover mind-bending truths about black holes, distant planets, and the mysteries of the universe.

* **Weather:** Unravel the secrets of storms, tornadoes, and other weather phenomena that shape our planet.

* **Geography:** Explore the incredible diversity of our world, from towering mountains to deep oceans, and uncover hidden facts about different cultures and landscapes.

* **Food:** Get ready to delve into the fascinating world of food, from the origins of your favorite snacks to the surprising ways food is prepared around the globe.

* **Pop Culture:** Discover the hidden secrets and unexpected trivia behind popular movies, music, and more.

A Fun-Filled Learning Experience

"Weird But True! 4" isn't just about facts – it's about sparking curiosity and inspiring a love of learning. The book's engaging format, with captivating photos and illustrations, makes learning fun and accessible for kids of all ages.

**Get ready to be surprised, amazed, and entertained by the weird but true wonders of our world!**

Tracy Whitney: Một Nữ Anh Hùng Bất Khả Chiến Bại

Câu Chuyện Về Sự Trỗi Dậy Của Tracy Whitney

Tracy Whitney, một cô gái trẻ đầy lý tưởng và lòng nhân ái, bất ngờ bị kết tội oan và phải chịu án tù 15 năm tại một nhà tù được cho là bất khả xâm phạm. Thay vì khuất phục trước số phận nghiệt ngã, Tracy quyết tâm chiến đấu chống lại những thế lực tội phạm quyền uy đã đẩy cô vào con đường tù tội.

Với trí thông minh phi thường và vẻ đẹp quyến rũ, Tracy bắt đầu cuộc hành trình đầy mạo hiểm, lật tẩy những âm mưu đen tối và thoát khỏi sự giam cầm bất công. Hành trình ấy đưa cô đến nhiều quốc gia trên thế giới, trải qua vô số thử thách cam go.

Cuộc Gặp Gỡ Định Mệnh

Trong một cuộc đối đầu đầy kịch tính, Tracy gặp gỡ Jeff Stevens, một người đàn ông đầy bí ẩn với quá khứ đầy màu sắc không kém gì cô. Jeff, với bản lĩnh phi thường và sự thông minh sắc bén, trở thành một đồng minh bất ngờ và đầy uy lực của Tracy.

Review Sách: Sự Kết Hợp Hoàn Hảo Giữa Hành Động Và Lãng Mạn

“Tracy Whitney” là một câu chuyện hấp dẫn, lôi cuốn người đọc từ trang đầu tiên đến trang cuối cùng. Tác phẩm kết hợp nhuần nhuyễn giữa yếu tố hành động, phiêu lưu và lãng mạn, mang đến cho bạn đọc một trải nghiệm đầy bất ngờ và thú vị.

Tracy Whitney là một nhân vật nữ đầy cá tính, mạnh mẽ và đầy nghị lực. Cô không chỉ là một người phụ nữ xinh đẹp mà còn là một chiến binh kiên cường, thông minh và luôn sẵn sàng đối mặt với thử thách.

Bên cạnh đó, câu chuyện còn thu hút người đọc bởi những tình tiết bất ngờ, những cuộc phiêu lưu gay cấn, những màn đấu trí căng thẳng và những mối quan hệ phức tạp đầy hấp dẫn.

“Tracy Whitney” là một tác phẩm văn học đáng đọc, là minh chứng cho sức mạnh của ý chí, lòng dũng cảm và sự kiên trì. Cuốn sách mang đến cho bạn đọc thông điệp ý nghĩa về việc chiến đấu chống lại bất công và theo đuổi lý tưởng của bản thân.

<p>After The Miracle - The Political Crusades Of Helen Keller</p>

<p>In this "stunning" new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability (Rosemary Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author).</p>

<p>Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023</p>

<p>Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her fame to oppose American intervention in WWI. She spoke out against Hitler the month he took power in 1933 and embraced the anti-fascist cause during the Spanish Civil War. She was one of the first public figures to alert the world to the evils of Apartheid, raising money to defend Nelson Mandela when he faced the death penalty for High Treason, and she lambasted Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Cold War, even as her contemporaries shied away from his notorious witch hunt. But who was this revolutionary figure?</p>

<p>She was Helen Keller.</p>

<p>From books to movies to Barbie dolls, most mainstream portrayals of Keller focus heavily on her struggles as a deafblind child—portraying her Teacher, Annie Sullivan, as a miracle worker. This narrative—which has often made Keller a secondary character in her own story—has resulted in few people knowing that her greatest accomplishment was not learning to speak, but what she did with her voice when she found it.</p>

<p>After the Miracle is a much-needed corrective to this antiquated narrative. In this first major biography of Keller in decades, Max Wallace reveals that the lionization of Sullivan at the expense of her famous pupil was no accident, and calls attention to Keller’s efforts as a card-carrying socialist, fierce anti-racist, and progressive disability advocate. Despite being raised in an era when eugenics and discrimination were commonplace, Keller consistently challenged the media for its ableist coverage and was one of the first activists to highlight the links between disability and capitalism, even as she struggled against the expectations and prejudices of those closest to her.</p>

<p>Peeling back the curtain that obscured Keller’s political crusades in favor of her “inspirational” childhood, After the Miracle chronicles the complete legacy of one of the 20th century’s most extraordinary figures.</p>

<p>Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps To Inspire Confidence And Seize New Growth</p>

<p>Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic and over 4 million copy global bestseller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.</p>

<p>Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step-by-step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space. By combining the insights of human psychology with practical market-creating tools and real-world guidance, Kim and Mauborgne deliver the definitive guide to shift yourself, your team, or your organization to new heights of confidence, market creation, and growth. They show why nondisruptive creation is as important as disruption in seizing new growth.</p>

<p>Blue Ocean Shift is packed with all-new research and examples of how leaders in diverse industries and organizations made the shift and created new markets by applying the process and tools outlined in the book. Whether you are a cash-strapped startup or a large, established company, nonprofit or national government, you will learn how to move from red to blue oceans in a way that builds your people's confidence so that they own and drive the process.</p>

<p>With battle-tested lessons learned from successes and failures in the field, Blue Ocean Shift is critical reading for leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs alike. You'll learn what works, what doesn't, and how to avoid the pitfalls along the way. This book will empower you to succeed as you embark on your own blue ocean journey. Blue Ocean Shift is indispensable for anyone committed to building a compelling future.</p>

<p>Now in paperback comes Nicholas and Micah Sparks' "New York Times" bestselling memoir of their life-affirming journey around the world.</p>

<p>How Successful People Lead teaches you the essential things you need to know about the five critical stages of leadership: 1. Position - People follow because they have to. 2. Permission - People follow because they want to. 3. Production - People follow because of what you have done for the organization. 4. People Development - People follow because of what you have done for them personally. 5. Pinnacle - People follow because of who you are and what you represent. For each level you will learn the upsides and downsides, and how to master one level and move up to the next.</p>

<p>Star Wars: The High Republic Vol. 1: Trail Of Shadows</p>

<p>JEDI KNIGHT AND PRIVATE EYE TEAM UP TO UNCOVER A MYSTERY THAT WILL CHANGE THE HIGH REPUBLIC FOREVER! A Jedi Master is dead. Another is in a state of complete shock. It's a murder the likes of which the Jedi Order has never seen before. There are no leads. There are no suspects. There is no motive. But Jedi Investigator EMERICK CAPHTOR must solve the case before it's too late. The fate of the Jedi, the Hutts, the Nihil and everyone in the galaxy, hangs by this tangled thread of lies and deceit. Emerick will need to dive into the darkness, testing himself and his Jedi ideals like never before. He'll need help. Luckily, Private Eye SIAN HOLT lives in the dark. Together, they'll follow this trail of shadows wherever it leads. If they can work together, that is.</p>

<p>Homeland Elegies</p>

<p>This "beautiful novel . . . has echoes of&nbsp;The Great Gatsby": an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Dwight Garner,&nbsp;New York Times).</p>

<p>One of the&nbsp;New York&nbsp;Times&nbsp;10 Best&nbsp;Books of the Year&nbsp;

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020

A Best Book of 2020 * Entertainment Weekly * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly * NPR * The Economist * Shelf Awareness * Library Journal * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Slate

Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction</p>

<p>A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams,&nbsp;Homeland Elegies&nbsp;blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.</p>

<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.</p>

<p>"Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie</p>

<p>The Best Business Books Ever</p>

<p>Every manager could benefit from a solid grounding in the history and evolution of business thinking. The Best Business Books Ever is a uniquely organized guide and an illuminating collection of key ideas from the 130 most influential business books of all time. It places both historical and contemporary works in context and draws fascinating parallels and points of connection. Now fully revised and more than 30 percent bigger, this one book highlights the information you need to know and why it's important to know it, and does it all in a succinct, time-saving fashion. Business moves faster than ever these days. For the businessperson who has a growing list of tomes that they can never quite seem to get to, The Best Business Books Ever is a must-have.</p>

<p>Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher</p>

<p>INSTANT&nbsp;NEW YORK TIMES&nbsp;BESTSELLER!</p>

<p>Met and Yankee All-Star pitcher David Cone shares lessons from the World Series and beyond in this essential memoir for baseball fans everywhere.</p>

<p>"There was a sense about him and an aura about him. Even when he was in trouble, he carried himself like a pitcher who said, 'I'm the man out here.' And he usually was." --Andy Pettitte on David Cone.</p>

<p>To any baseball fan, David Cone was a bold and brilliant pitcher. During his 17-year career, he became a master of the mechanics and mental toughness a pitcher needs to succeed in the major leagues. A five-time All-Star and five-time World Champion now gives his full count -- balls and strikes, errors and outs -- of his colorful life in baseball.</p>

<p>From the pitchers he studied to the hitters who infuriated him,&nbsp;Full Count&nbsp;takes readers inside the mind of a thoughtful pitcher, detailing Cone's passion, composure and strategies. The book is also filled with never-before-told stories from the memorable teams Cone played on -- ranging from the infamous late '80s Mets to the Yankee dynasty of the '90s.</p>

<p>And, along the way,&nbsp;Full Count&nbsp;offers the lessons baseball taught Cone -- from his mistakes as a young and naive pitcher to outwitting the best hitters in the world -- one pitch at a time.</p>

<p>The Winner</p>

<p>A rags-to-riches deal for single mother LuAnn Tyler is deadlier than she ever could have imagined in this 1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci.</p>

<p>THE DREAM

She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever.</p>

<p>THE KILLER

It's an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay...until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich.</p>

<p>THE WINNER

For if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all: the chameleon-like financial mastermind who changed her life. And who can take it away at will...</p>