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Go behind the scenes of world's biggest and most exhilarating action sports showcase - Nitro Circus. Born in a garage in Utah with just a video camera and some extraordinary, dare-devil stunts, Nitro Circus has exploded to become the world’s biggest producer of action sports entertainment, including television shows and show-stopping, adrenaline-charged live events. Nitro Circus’s crew of top action-sports athletes attempt the best and boldest tricks in motocross, BMX, scooter, skating and dirt biking, including record-breaking feats and, often, epic spills – there are no limits!From biographies of top athletes and tales of the most astonishing sporting skills, to the story of how it all started, this is the tell-all, must-have guide for every action sports fan. With stunning photography and behind-the-scenes guides, you will find tips and tricks straight from the legends themselves, including founder and action sports legend Travis Pastrana. So sit back and immerse yourself in the world's most exhilarating, extreme, show-stopping sports!

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Driven by Alison Teal’s unique life experiences, this book features her firsthand accounts of adventure in well-known locations, like the Taj Mahal, to far-off places, like the Lost Island of the Fire Walkers. Travel the world through unbelievable photography and get to know this Female Indiana Jones through stories close to her heart, like those from her Home Sweet Grass Shack in Hawaii and of her conservation efforts in the Maldives.

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Robert Leroy Ripley was an American cartoonist who created and developed the world-famous Ripley's Believe It or Not! cartoon strip in the years after the First World War. He travelled the globe in search of unusual objects and stories, and built up an extraordinary collection of everything from shrunken heads to dinosaur eggs and iron maidens. These are now exhibited in Ripley museums around the world. The Ripley's Believe It or Not! is an annual international top-ten bestseller.

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Ripley's Believe It or Not! transports readers of all ages to a world beyond imagination - where truth is stranger than fiction!Every turn of the page reveals all-new and all-true stories from around the globe - an artist who paints with cow poop, a disappearing waterfall, whales that hunt with bubbles, and hundreds more. Packed with astounding facts, hair-raising stories and stunning photography, this all-new edition of Ripley's is every curious reader's ticket to the extraordinary. No Christmas is complete without it.

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Ripley’s has spent 100 years compiling strange-but-true facts from around the world. Now, the most extraordinary stories from the last century are brought together in a single colourful volume.Featured Believe It Or Not stories include:· The chicken that lived for months without its head· The man who swallowed seven swords at once· The jockey who died while riding his horse – but won the race anywayWith spectacular photos throughout, 100 Best Believe It Or Not Stories is a must-have for any Ripley’s fan.Incredibly hard to believe. Undeniably true!

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Ripley’s Time Warp reveals the most bizarre parallel events in world history. Drawing on remarkable tales from around the globe, Time Warp uncovers incredible moments that you’d never believe happened at the same time. Did you know . . . · Nintendo was founded in 1889: the same year the Eiffel Tower was built? · The last guillotining in France was in 1977: the same year the first Star Wars movie was released?· The world’s oldest light bulb has been on since 1901: the same year Australia was founded?An enthralling dive into the most mind-boggling moments in world history, Time Warp shows that sometimes past and present collide in the most unexpected ways . . .

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The sequel to Ripley Jones''s unforgettable YA thriller Missing Clarissa, The Other Lola is about what happens when the people you love the most are the people you can trust the least. In the months after Cam and Blair broke their small hometown's legendary missing-girl story and catapulted to accidental fame, they vowed never to do it again. No more mysteries, no more podcasts, and no more sticking their heads where they don't belong.Until Mattie Brosillard, a freshman at their high school, shows up on their doorstep, begging Cam and Blair for help. Mattie''s sister Lola disappeared mysteriously five years ago. No trace of her was ever found. Now, she''s back--but Mattie is convinced the girl who returned is an impostor. Nobody believes Mattie''s wild story--not Mattie''s brother, not Mattie''s mother, and not even Cam and Blair. But something is definitely wrong in the Brosillard family. And Blair has her own reasons for wanting to know what r

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The sequel to Ripley Jones''s unforgettable YA thriller Missing Clarissa, The Other Lola is about what happens when the people you love the most are the people you can trust the least. In the months after Cam and Blair broke their small hometown's legendary missing-girl story and catapulted to accidental fame, they vowed never to do it again. No more mysteries, no more podcasts, and no more sticking their heads where they don't belong.Until Mattie Brosillard, a freshman at their high school, shows up on their doorstep, begging Cam and Blair for help. Mattie''s sister Lola disappeared mysteriously five years ago. No trace of her was ever found. Now, she''s back--but Mattie is convinced the girl who returned is an impostor. Nobody believes Mattie''s wild story--not Mattie''s brother, not Mattie''s mother, and not even Cam and Blair. But something is definitely wrong in the Brosillard family. And Blair has her own reasons for wanting to know what r

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Perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa is a gripping novel about two friends who start a true crime podcast-with dangerous consequences.In August of 1999, dazzlingly popular cheerleader Clarissa Campbell disappears from a party in the woods outside the rural town of Oreville, Washington and is never seen again. The police question her friends, teachers, and the adults who knew her-who all have something to hide. And thanks to Clarissa's beauty, the mystery captures the attention of the nation. But with no leads and no body, the case soon grows cold. Despite the efforts of internet sleuths and true-crime aficionados, Clarissa is never found-dead or alive.Over twenty years later, Oreville high-school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast, determined to unravel the story of what-or who-happened to this rural urban legend. In the process they uncover a nest of dirty small-tow

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In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through all the years his closest friend is Easy, an escaped black slave who took refuge in his father’s house. Everything Converse values most is gradually lost to time, including the family-owned soapstone quarry. The Quarry invites readers to escape into private lives worth caring about—and to feel the national history that they could not escape. Originally published in 1947 and considered one of Mildred Walker’s richest novels, The Quarry is introduced by Ripley Hugo, Walker’s daughter. Hugo edited, with James Welch, The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet’s Autobiography by Richard Hugo.

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