Move over, Scrooge. Get out of town, Grinch. Off the shelf, elf! There's a new Christmas tradition in town, but he's been around for centuries. The Krampus keeps the Naughty list, and woe betide anyone whose name he reads. Read a new poem in the tradition of Clement C. Moore's Night Before Christmas, and then sing one of the songbook of Krampus carols in this colorfully illustrated soon-to-be-classic holiday volume.

Night of the Krampus

Humor & Entertainment

Lake, Matt

Humor

questionable.info

Even if the web is all a mystery to you, you can explore its limitless possibilities, starting with what's most interesting. First, stop on the "What Now?" cruise: E-mail. Contact friends, join discussion groups with your favorite interests, play in live-action chat rooms. Research the phone numbers of lost loves, locate your name in the papers, genealogies, health and medical info, the latest news, and expert advice for your personal life, career, and hobbies. You can shop the universe with a secure credit card to reserve airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, concert tickets. Try banking and paying bills online. Listen to any radio station in the world, watch live views of almost anything, and filter the web for your kids.

I'm on the Internet, Now What?!: E-Mail/ Shopping Online/ Surfing And Chatting (Now What?! Series)

Computers & Technology

Lake, Matthew

Networking & Cloud Computing

Silver Lining

First stop on the Internet highway: E-mail. Contact friends, join discussion groups with your favorite interests, play in live-action chat rooms. Research the phone numbers of lost loves, locate your name in the papers, consult genealogies, gain health and medical info, the latest news, and find expert advice for your personal life, career, and hobbies. You can shop the universe with a secure credit card to reserve airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, and concert tickets. Try banking and paying bills online. Listen to any radio station in the world, watch live views of almost anything, and filter the Web for your kids.

Barnes and Noble Basics Using the Internet: An Easy, Smart Guide to Being Online (Barnes & Noble Basics)

James, Matthew

Art Through the Eyes of Mad Poets: An Ekphrastic Poetry Collection

Literature & Fiction

Crooker, Barbara

Society, Mad Poets

Anderson, Nathalie

Sholevar, Fereshteh

Greenblatt, Raymond

Forrester, Sibelan

Nocella, Camille

Laub, Amy E.

Poetry

Independently published

This 269 page book is filled with dozens of photos, color and black/white and also some illustrations. The chapters are broken down into the following categories: Local Legends and Lore, Ancient Mysteries, Fabled People and Places, Unexplained Phenomenon, Bizarre Beasts, Local Heroes and Villians, Personalized Properties, Roadside Oddities, Roads Less Traveled, Quaker State Ghosts, Cemetery Safari, and Abandoned Places all located in Pennsylvania.

Weird Pennsylvania: Your Travel Guide to Pennsylvania's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Sterling

Focusing on the bizarre, a collection of entertaining, illustrated travel guides features a host of oddball curiosities, ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions that can be found throughout the United States and around the globe.

Weird England: Your Travel Guide to England's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Travel

Moran, Mark

Sceurman, Mark

Europe

Union Square & Co.

What's WEIRD around here?
Best Travel Series of The Year 2006”Booklist 
That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for yearsand their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon, Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread throughout the U.S.! Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture: it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions. What’s NOT shockingly odd here: that every previously published Weird book has become a bestseller in its region.

Weird U.S. The ODDyssey Continues: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

United States

Now, for the first time ever, kids can join America's most beloved WEIRD hunters on an unforgettable cross-country journey-and experience all the fun and discovery for themselves! Camera and notebooks again in hand, the two Marks introduce brave young explorers to bizarre objects and strange sites across our land, from UFO museums and the world's largest cow to cursed roads and a house that looks like a mushroom.

Weird U.S.: A Freaky Field Trip Through the 50 States

Children's Books

Fairbanks, Randy

Geography & Cultures

Take a wild and wacky magical history tour! Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran--whose Weird series has sold more than a million copies--show kids the stranger side of America's past. They uncover abandoned places and haunted spaces, dig up ancient mysteries, shine a light on secret societies, and tell some spine-tingling cemetery stories. So, forget presidents, wars, treaties, and other important things; this entertaining compilation gives you America's first (and only) self-proclaimed emperor, Abigail Adams' ghost at the White House, aliens attacking New Jersey, and more!

Weird History: A Twisted Tour of America's Bizarre Past

History

Union Square Kids

What's WEIRD about science? How about two-headed cows, animals with ears on their knees, crop circles, frogs falling from the sky, and scientists from the planet Venus? It's all here--and more--as this continuation of the much-loved series takes kids on a scientific ride to the wacky side. With two members of America's popular Weird hunter team at the helm, budding mad scientists will enjoy a wacky cross-country journey they'll never forget.

Weird Science: Mad Marvels from the Way-Out World

Science, Nature & How It Works

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