Erin Barrett
1) Ben Franklin's Guide to Wealth: Being a 21st Century Treatise on What It Takes to Live a Rich Life
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It isn't all about the Benjamins!
A revolutionary way of looking at money and value, based on the writings of the Founding Father.
Ben Franklin's Guide to Wealth is the modern version of the treatise The Way of Wealth by Richard Saunders-one of Ben Franklin's many pseudonyms. Franklin practiced what he preached in the treatise, and it made him rich enough to have a full life, travel extensively, and follow his intellectual musings, which in turn...
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Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo are the Queen and King of trivia, relied upon by game shows including Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and game manufacturers. Millions of people read their daily newspaper column and together they've written twenty books. The sixth book in the Totally Riveting Utterly Entertaining (TRUE) Trivia Series puts a magnifying lens on the wacky world of writers. It Takes a Certain Type to Be a Writer will tell you everything you...
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Number 2 in the W.C. Privy series, this bathroom companion is chock full of jokes, stories, historical factoids, quizzes, trivia, and pop culture fun. An ecletic reading array, the book includes:
*Rules and Histories of Laughably Obscure Sports
*The Night They Invented Champagne--the Accidental History of Bubbly Wine
*I Was There! Eyewitness Accounts of Pompeii, the Chicago Fire, the Defeat of Custer, the San Francisco Earthquake
*How to Escape...
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Every little fact cat lovers could want to know about the mysterious creatures that live in their homes is contained in this collection.
For example, cats use at least a hundred different sounds to communicate and can pronounce thirteen vowel sounds and seven or eight consonant sounds; housecats typically blink twice a minute; and in ancient Egypt, the penalty for killing a cat was death!
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Here you sit, brokenhearted ...with nothing to read but the writing on the wallpaper?
Don't get flushed with despair! W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion is a book that's good for your heart — the more you read, the better you'll feel. Designed to make a porcelain throne into a seat of higher learning, it's guaranteed to make a big splash with you, your friends, and your family.
You want trivia, brain-teasers, facts, stories, or instructions...
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Distributed by Publishers Group West
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2000
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Every day, Jeeves receives millions of questions at Ask.com. From this incredible storehouse of inquiries, authors Jack Mingo and Erin Barrett have selected the most intriguing to answer in a book that is as witty and informative as the Internet butler himself.