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- Strange, spooky and supernatural : curious tales of fascinating people. places and things / by Browne, Mike,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Strange, Spooky and Supernatural is divided into three sections and recounts stories of unusual and enigmatic people, places and things. The first section explores strange people in history, including the death of escape artist and occult debunker Harry Houdini; BC resident Taylor Grainger, who left a note saying he was leaving on a spaceship and disappeared; and a man known only as Jerome, who was discovered on a Nova Scotia beach in 1863 and was unable to communicate anything about his past. The second section, about strange places, embarks on a journey around the world, touching down in locations cloaked in mystery and steeped in spine-chilling stories of hauntings, unexplained deaths and lost civilizations. This chapter includes stories about the Borley Rectory, which has been labelled the most haunted house in England; Nahanni National Park in the Northwest Territories, which is referred to by many as "the Valley of Headless Men"; and the unexplained occurrences at Old MacDonald's Farm in Caledonia Mills, Nova Scotia. In the final section, Browne explores mysterious things including the Van Meter Visitor, an unidentified nocturnal creature that terrorized citizens of the small town of Van Meter, Iowa, in 1903; the Vampire of Highgate Cemetery, an entity that allegedly haunted the famous cemetery in London during the 1970s; and the Philip Experiment, a 1970s-era parapsychological experiment conducted in Toronto. Strange, Spooky and Supernatural includes a foreword by paranormal researcher Morgan Knudsen, who is also a co-host of the podcast Supernatural Circumstances."--- Subjects: Curiosities and wonders.;
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- Circus of wonders : a novel / by Macneal, Elizabeth,1988-author.;
"An atmospheric and spectacular novel where one woman's life is transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Betrayal; Birthmarks; Circus performers; Friendship; Interpersonal relations; Kidnapping victims; Man-woman relationships; Young women;
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- The wonder of butterflies / by Bauman, Amy; Norsgaard, E. Jaediker;
Text and photographs introduce these creatures whose life cycles span the changes from egg to adult butterfly.- Subjects: Butterflies;
- © c2000., Gareth Stevens,
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- It's a wonderful life [videorecording (DVD)] / by Capra, Frank,1897-1991; Stewart, James,1908-1997; Reed, Donna,1921-1986; Barrymore, Lionel,1878-1954;
Photography, Joseph Walker ... [et al.] ; sound, Richard Van Hessen [et al.] ; costumes, Edward Stevenson ; editor, William Hornbeck ; art director, Jack Okey ; music, Dimitri Tiomkin ; original story, Philip Van Doren Stern.James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Gloria Grahame.A man is prevented from committing suicide by an elderly angel, who takes him back through his life to see what good he has done, and how the world would be if he had not been born.CHV rating: G.Not rated.DVD dolby digital mono.- Subjects: Angels; Christmas films; Fantasy films; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
- © [2006], Paramount,
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- One-dish wonders : 150 fresh takes on the classic casserole / by Bonvissuto, Danny S.; Dujardin, Hélène.; Protasio, Victor.;
LSC- Subjects: Casserole cooking.; Cooking, American; Cookbooks.;
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- The wonders we seek : thirty incredible Muslims who helped shape the world / by Faruqi, Saadia.; Mumtaz, Aneesa.; Khan, Saffa.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.Ages 8-12.LSC- Subjects: Muslims;
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Strange but true : the world's weirdest wonders. --
LSC- Subjects: Curiosities and wonders.;
- © c2008., Life Books,
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Wonder Go Travel Magazine
Mode of access: Internet.- Subjects: Travel & Culture;
- © , Wonder Go Travel Magazine
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- Miracles and wonder : the historical mystery of Jesus / by Pagels, Elaine H.,1943-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world. Over the past two thousand years, countless personalities have been projected onto the enigma we know as Jesus: a first-century rabbi, capable of miraculous healing, or a magician faking cures; a Prophet, or a deluded visionary; a heretical Jew, or God in human form. In this groundbreaking work of accessible scholarship, Princeton University professor and bestselling author Elaine Pagels explores a wide range of sources -- including the Bible, the earliest reports of Jesus's life, and the secret "gnostic gospels," discovered in the 20th century -- to break down these contradictions and paint a richer and more complex portrait of Jesus in his own time than ever before. As Christians became the largest community of any religious tradition in the world, Pagels argues, people have constructed and reconstructed Jesus through the lens of imagination, his image shaped by the social, political, and economic challenges of their own time. But the most fascinating years of all were the early ones when a young Jewish man with a scanty following, executed humiliatingly as an insurrectionist, was transformed by his followers into the Jesus of Christianity. Powerfully written and drawing on decades of research, Miracles and Wonder is an essential history for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of Jesus and his monumental afterlife"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Jesus Christ;
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- Ordinary wonder tales : essays / by Urquhart, Emily,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine--and reveals the magic in the everyday. "I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories," writes Emily Urquhart. "I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories." In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals the truths that underlie our imaginings: what we see in our heads when we read, how the sight of a ghost can heal, how the entrance to the underworld can be glimpsed in an oil painting or a winter storm--or the onset of a loved one's dementia. In essays on death and dying, pregnancy and prenatal genetics, radioactivity, chimeras, cottagers, and plague, Ordinary Wonder Tales reveals the essential truth: if you let yourself look closely, there is magic in the everyday."--- Subjects: Essays.;
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