Bleeding from your eyeballs? Suddenly afraid of water? Have parasites in your brain? These horrors seem like the stuff of fiction, but they are actual symptoms of real diseases. Check out a book from the following list for some more …
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Quirk Books began publishing titles in September 2002. By 2010, they were the fastest growing small publisher, according to Publisher’s Weekly. Quirk Books initially described their genre as “irreference” books, a portmanteau of irreverent and reference. Quirk later added more …
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I recently read two novels that were seemingly unrelated but that actually both had settings inspired by a similar location – Arcadia. Arcadia was a region of Ancient Greece that has been idealized in literature as a harmonious and unspoiled …
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When I was a child, I would ride my bike to the library every week and check out a biography to read. I would go straight to the section and pick a book based on the cover. I often had not …
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