Quick Quirk Quiz - In the Kitchen
by Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen
Price: $0.99 USD. 8220 words.
Published on November 9, 2009. .
Have you ever considered the items that are crammed into your kitchen cupboards and cabinets? Behind every box of cereal, every utensil, and every sauce a story waits to be told. Test your knowledge of common kitchen items with these 28 true tales of culinary origins.
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Books tagged: stories about things
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Quick Quirk Quiz - Things In the Bathroom
by Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen
Price: $0.99 USD. 8040 words. Published on November 12, 2009. .
The stuff you store in your bathroom didn’t get their by accident. Long before you bought it, brought it home, and crammed it into your medicine chest, someone was wondering… experimenting… discovering… manufacturing… and marketing. Here are 28 tales behind the things you use when you’re in the bathroom. Can you guess the product after hearing the story behind its invention?
Price: $0.99 USD. 8040 words. Published on November 12, 2009. .
The stuff you store in your bathroom didn’t get their by accident. Long before you bought it, brought it home, and crammed it into your medicine chest, someone was wondering… experimenting… discovering… manufacturing… and marketing. Here are 28 tales behind the things you use when you’re in the bathroom. Can you guess the product after hearing the story behind its invention?
Newton and His Apple & Simple Newton Physics
by Murat Uhrayoglu
Price: $3.99 USD. 71720 words. Published on March 15, 2011. .
"Why did the apple fall out of the tree? Does everything fall? What makes things fall? Can anything stop things from falling? Are the sun, moon, and stars falling? Why don't they ever hit the ground? So many questions. Newton spent many years answering these questions by thinking and doing experiments. This book telling this excellent biographic story very simple, teaching and amazingly.."
Price: $3.99 USD. 71720 words. Published on March 15, 2011. .
"Why did the apple fall out of the tree? Does everything fall? What makes things fall? Can anything stop things from falling? Are the sun, moon, and stars falling? Why don't they ever hit the ground? So many questions. Newton spent many years answering these questions by thinking and doing experiments. This book telling this excellent biographic story very simple, teaching and amazingly.."
Dark And Fantastic Tales
by Brian Steele
Price: $5.00 USD. 17660 words. Published on March 18, 2011. .
ST GEORGES St Georges seemed haunted at night. Whenever the thousands of children were no longer there it became disquieting, a place of echoes. The lines of desks looked unnatural without children sitting at them scribbling away. The corridors seemed infinite without little children running through them. Even the caretaker hated..
Price: $5.00 USD. 17660 words. Published on March 18, 2011. .
ST GEORGES St Georges seemed haunted at night. Whenever the thousands of children were no longer there it became disquieting, a place of echoes. The lines of desks looked unnatural without children sitting at them scribbling away. The corridors seemed infinite without little children running through them. Even the caretaker hated..
True Tails
by J. H. Soeder
Price: $7.95 USD. 59840 words. Published on May 20, 2011. .
Winner of 2 National Book Awards, its the never-before-told story of a boy who discovers he can “hear” the thoughts of birds and animals—tiny insects to the largest living creatures today, whales—and “speak” back to them with his mind. Its “tails” describe the miracle that is life, as the animals’ clearly sentient behavior in response to him and as witnessed by others.
Price: $7.95 USD. 59840 words. Published on May 20, 2011. .
Winner of 2 National Book Awards, its the never-before-told story of a boy who discovers he can “hear” the thoughts of birds and animals—tiny insects to the largest living creatures today, whales—and “speak” back to them with his mind. Its “tails” describe the miracle that is life, as the animals’ clearly sentient behavior in response to him and as witnessed by others.
The Sigyr Fables
by J.R. Duclayan
Price: $2.99 USD. 16410 words. Published on May 31, 2011. .
What happens when you bring together an apathetic wall, a manic-depressive ghost, a flippant bird, a flighty gust of wind, and a philosophical spider? Mix in some of the more universally incomprehensible human conditions such as loneliness, grief, existentialist dilemmas, mortality, and love, and watch as these five characters provide an interesting display of what it means to be human.
Price: $2.99 USD. 16410 words. Published on May 31, 2011. .
What happens when you bring together an apathetic wall, a manic-depressive ghost, a flippant bird, a flighty gust of wind, and a philosophical spider? Mix in some of the more universally incomprehensible human conditions such as loneliness, grief, existentialist dilemmas, mortality, and love, and watch as these five characters provide an interesting display of what it means to be human.