Julesburg Public Library

Bright illustrations, wacky lists, nerd words, and colorful layouts enhance this fun-filled reference guide to facts and figures on an assortment of interesting animals, people, places, and things, including what makes pink flamingos pink and the most expensive movie flops ever made.

Chronicles the evolution of record breaking while incorporating thousands of new entries, hundreds of new photographs, and highlights of classic records.

Gives answers to some of the mysteries of everday life like why pepper makes people sneeze, whether pigs have hair, and why saltines have holes.

Wild characters, diverse cultures, spooky myths and slippery sales schemes color Colorado's past. In a place where shameless showdowns and dusty shootouts over money, drink, and women were once standard procedure, storytelling around campfires became an integral part of a rich heritage. From the jackalope and vampires to Indian curses and snake oil salesmen, the Centennial State has it all. Weirder still are the strange but true stories.

Lists records, superlatives, and unusual facts about computer and video games, and includes interviews with champion gamers, tips on play, and profiles of the best-selling games.

"Describes various unsolved mysteries throughout history in a top-ten format"--Provided by publisher.

Highlights some of the world's greatest things, including the Grand Canyon, the Great Wall of China, Angel Falls, the Amazon River, the biggest supertanker, the longest bridge, the smallest robot, and ninety-three other manmade and natural wonders.

"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships--revealing...

"The Daring Book for Girls" is the manual for everything that adventurous girls need to know from female heroes in history to secret note-passing skills, science projects to friendship bracelets, the perfect cartwheel to the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking.