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Stranger than Fiction

Kathy Phillips
Adult Services, Central Library

I love reading non-fiction. As a librarian, I admire the amount of research an author must undertake to write a book on any subject. As a reader, I am riveted by the wide variety of weirdness to be uncovered and encountered.

I mean, you just can’t make up this stuff!

Area 51 : an uncensored history of America's top secret military base
by Jacobsen, Annie.

Length: xv, 523 p. :

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Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., New York : 2011.
by Jacobsen, Annie.

Length: xv, 523 p. :

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Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., New York : 2011.
Birdology : adventures with a pack of hens, a peck of pigeons, cantankerous crows, fierce falcons, hip hop parrots, baby hummingbirds, and one murderously big living dinosaur
by Montgomery, Sy.

Length: vii, 260 p. :

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Publisher: Free Press, New York, NY : c2010.
by Montgomery, Sy.

Length: vii, 260 p. :

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Publisher: Free Press, New York, NY : c2010.
Destiny of the republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president
by Millard, Candice.

Length: x, 339 p. :

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Publisher: Doubleday, New York : c2011.
by Millard, Candice.

Length: x, 339 p. :

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Publisher: Doubleday, New York : c2011.
How to build a dinosaur : extinction doesn't have to be forever
by Horner, John R.

Length: viii, 246 p. :

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Publisher: Dutton, New York : c2009.
by Horner, John R.

Length: viii, 246 p. :

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Publisher: Dutton, New York : c2009.
Moby-duck : the true story of 28,800 bath toys lost at sea, and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fools, including the author, who went in search of them
by Hohn, Donovan.

Length: 402 p. :

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Publisher: Viking, New York, N.Y. : 2011.
by Hohn, Donovan.

Length: 402 p. :

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Publisher: Viking, New York, N.Y. : 2011.
Musicophilia : tales of music and the brain
by Sacks, Oliver W.

Length: xiv, 381 p. ;

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York : 2007.
by Sacks, Oliver W.

Length: xiv, 381 p. ;

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York : 2007.
The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
by Larson, Erik.

Length: xi, 447 p. :

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Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York : c2003.
by Larson, Erik.

Length: xi, 447 p. :

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Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York : c2003.
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
by Skloot, Rebecca

Length: x, 369 p. :

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Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York : c2010.
by Skloot, Rebecca

Length: x, 369 p. :

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Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York : c2010.
The psychopath test : a journey through the madness industry
by Ronson, Jon

Length: 275 p. :

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Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York : c2011.
by Ronson, Jon

Length: 275 p. :

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Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York : c2011.
Wicked bugs : the louse that conquered Napoleon's army & other diabolical insects
by Stewart, Amy.

Length: xiii, 271 p. :

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Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C. : 2011.
by Stewart, Amy.

Length: xiii, 271 p. :

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Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C. : 2011.
Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities
by Stewart, Amy.

Length: xvii, 235 p. :

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Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C. : 2009.
by Stewart, Amy.

Length: xvii, 235 p. :

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Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C. : 2009.