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12 Books from the Smelly Shelf

1 The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (Joseph Jenkins)
2 Starting With Ducks (Katie Thear)
3 Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist (Z Erzinclioglu)
4 The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis (Stephen Halliday)
5 Secretary of State’s Guidance (196) Production of Natural [...]

Sixty six letter words that repeat themselves

1 motmot (tropical bird)
2 cancan (French dance)
3 dumdum (soft-nosed bullet)
4 bye-bye (form of goodbye)
5 zoozoo (a dove or pigeon, sometimes zouzou)
6 haw-haw (a ha-ha, a fenced ditch)
7 chichi (self-consciously stylish)
8 akeake (type of tree)
9 valval (relating to a valve)
10 grigri (African amulet)
11 tzatza (Black Sea fish)
12 humhum (cotton cloth)
13 mulmul (muslin cloth)
14 boo-boo (a blunder [...]

Top 20 Geek Novels

1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell
3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer — William Gibson
6. Dune — Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot — Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation — Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs [...]

6 Guilt-Free Pleasures to Read at the Beach

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS SARA GRUEN JACOB JANKOWSKI has never had fantasies about joining the circus. But when his parents die suddenly, he freaks out, drops out of vet school, hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What [...]