Alex Palmer
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The true story of John Duval Gluck, Jr., who in 1913 founded the Santa Claus Association, which had the sole authority to answer Santa's mail in New York City. He ran the organization for 15 years, gaining fame for making the myth of Santa a reality to poor children by arranging for donors to deliver the toys they requested, until a crusading charity commissioner exposed Gluck as a fraud. The story is wide in scope, interweaving a phony Boy Scout...
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Wouldn't it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you'll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers. Among the questions asked and answered:
• When Did Literature Finally Get Sexy?
• Is Coffee or Opium Better for Literary Creativity?
• Why Are...
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Hundreds of weird and wonderful facts are included in this massive encyclopedia of food and drink oddities!
Food Weird-o-Pedia offers up hundreds of off-kilter bits of info about food that will make you rethink what you know about even those dishes you've been eating your whole life. Organized in sections such as "Between-Meal Tidbits: Curious Facts about Snacks" and "Spice Up Your Life: Unexpected morsels about condiments, sauces and spices," each...
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Award-winning new crime fiction: '[An] intelligent and compelling thriller that turns the notion of evil inside out' - Canberra times. Matthew Liu sees his parents gunned down on a lonely Sydney backstreet. A young woman, the killer, stares him in the face before fleeing the scene. When the police arrive, all they find is the discarded gun.
Detective Inspector Paul Harrigan's unit is pitched into a high-profile investigation with little to go on....
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Exciting new crime from Alex Palmer, winner of the 2008 Canberra Critics Circle Award Paul Harrigan is a top cop who has survived the corruption and political manoeuvrings of the NSW Police. So far ...His partner Grace Riordan has left the Service and now works in the shadowy world of undercover intelligence - so she and Harrigan can't talk about work much.
Harrigan is called to a grisly murder scene in Sydney's wealthy north: four guests are seated...
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Check out the weird and wonderful facts in this massive encyclopedia of alphabetized oddities:
• HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS THAT ENJOY SPICY FOOD (there's a reason no one sells Tabasco-flavored cat food)
• NAPPING CAN SAVE YOU FROM A HEART ATTACK (assuming you are not operating heavy machinery at the time)
• PSYCHOLOGISTS CAN ASSESS YOUR PERSONALITY FROM HOW YOU DIP FRIES IN KETCHUP (nice fries, sociopath)
• SURFING THE INTERNET ACTUALLY...
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Did you hear that Pope Francis endorsed Trump? Or that you have to pay to perform "Happy Birthday to You" in public? How about that the Soviet Union once banned microwaves out of fear that they were spreading diseases? These are all totally true things!* Everyone is saying so.
There's a lot of weird news out there today (thanks, Internet!). But given the speed of modern media, often these stories get disseminated faster than they can be fact-checked....
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Could you be happier at work... in love... in life? You may not need a total overhaul-just a few good Happiness Hacks! Here are hundreds of shortcuts to brighten your day and boost your mood-and the science behind how they work. Discover why... • 57°F (13.9°C) is the happiest temperature • Selfies give you a jolt of joy • Renters have a surprising edge over homeowners • 17-minute breaks are the most productive • Intimacy is better than...