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The marvelously compelling biography of Robert Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities.

Features bizarre facts, photographs, crazy stories, and amazing records, interviews and fun features that will make readers fascinated by how unbelievable the truth can be about total obsession.

A mindless, savage, and merciless alien is attacking the crew of an intergalactic freighter, and it must be stopped before they are all killed.

The fifth of Highsmith's "Ripley" novels finds the hero living the good life in the French countryside. His tranquillity is disturbed when an obnoxious American couple move into the village.

Ripley is recovering from her first encounter with the deadly alien. Her account of that event is received with skepticism, but transmissions from a colony later established on the Alien's planet abruptly cease. Burke, an up-and-coming company man, talks Ripley into going back with a squad of colonial marines. Of course the Marines do not take her warnings seriously either, until they come face-to-face with the awesome alien spawn.

Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly...

Hundreds of full-color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs complement an entertaining look at human oddities, exotic artifacts, bizarre events, unusual inventions, natural wonders, and extraordinary human achievements.

This fascinating facsimile diary offers a first-hand account of the famous intrepid Robert Ripley's travels to exotic corners of the globe during the 1930's, in search of the weird and the wonderful. Complete with Ripley's drawings, cartoons and memorabilia. Three-dimensional pockets, envelopes, doors, pouches, pop-ups, mini books and surprises appear on every page.--From publisher's web site.

"Enter a world of shrunken heads, mystic holy men, shriveled aliens, and bizarre relics in the delightfully odd tale of Robert Ripley. Born in California, Ripley began his career as a sports cartoonist. He went on to chronicle global records and oddities in his weekly column, Believe It Or Not! After publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst took an interest in the column, it became a syndicated global success. Ripley spent his life traveling to more...

The complete story of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley's recurring battles with members of a parasitical extraterrestrial species.