Strange Laws

First published in 2022 ‘IT’S THE LAW! The Little Book of Bizarre, Strange, Unusual, and Weird Laws from Around the World’ contains 458 unique entries from 66 countries. When travelling carry this little book wherever you go to help reduce the chances of being culturally insensitive, causing personal embarrassment, annoying the local population, being arrested, or even to avoid being fined or imprisoned. It is also perfect for using some of the entries as conversation starters, or for intriguing questions in a trivia quiz… such as: Where are you forbidden from dying? Where are ...

In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, the ESPN baseball writer and author of the acclaimed Smart Baseball, offers an era-spanning dissection of some of the best and worst decisions in modern baseball, explaining what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how their legacy has shaped the game....

Led to an isolated Appalachian Mountain town by a trail of disturbing murders, FBI special agent Violet Rainwater’s determined to catch a serial killer with a twisted agenda. With locals refusing to reveal their secrets, Violet’s only ally is Detective John Orlando. But even John has an ulterior motive—he’s convinced this case is connected to his wife’s murder.

If you can imagine it, somewhere there’s probably a law against it. Laugh out loud over some of Canada’s strangest laws - but not too loudly, or you might get a ticket: until 2002 in BC, you couldn’t stand up while having a drink in a restaurant; in Halifax, cabbies are required to wear socks; you’re not allowed to dogsled on the sidewalks in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; and much more.

In this story from the novel, “SuperHero – Retirement”, when a recently retired SuperHero in his Alternative Identity meets his daughter’s father-in-law to be sparks fly.

Hezekiah Daly, the "Comanche Killer," had spent his younger days heaping revenge upon the Comanches. After he rescued a young girl, Rebecca, and her brother after the Comanches had killed their parents in a raid, he changed his ways. He learned to love both of them and decided to marry Rebecca. The three of them traveled to northwest Nebraska to start a horse ranch. But trouble seem to be everywhere in the West. Money problems, a fight over the land, finding the horses to start the ranch and worse of all, a wolf that stalks the family. The wolf was wounded by Hezekiah. It was already a man ...

"The Strange One": The mind of a killer can be a complicated one. Watch as a murderer in the making struggles between his instincts to survive and his more rational side. Step into the thoughts of a man who thought he was just like you - that is, before...the incident.