Is any family normal? This is a very funny and very real story of domestic mayhem, of a family in melt-down, of the barely organized chaos, of sibling warfare, not to mention the diplomatic breakdown between parents.

King of the Castle

Plimmer, Martin

Parenting & Relationships

Ebury Press

Ever wonder what the odds are of being struck by lightning? Or winning the lottery? Or meeting someone from Timbuktu with the same middle name as you? BEYOND COINCIDENCE recounts and analyzes over 200 amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of: Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon from her back yard. It lands 140 miles away in the backyard of another Laura Buxton, also age ten. Two sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both sisters are killed. A British cavalry officer was fighting in the last year of World War One when he was knocked off his horse by a flash of lightning. He was paralyzed from the waist down. The man moved to Vancouver, Canada where, six years later, while fishing in a river, lightning struck him again, paralyzing his right side. Two years later, he was sufficiently recovered to take walks in a local park when, in 1930, lightning sought him out again, this time permanently paralyzing him. He died soon after. Four years later, lightning destroyed his tomb.

Beyond Coincidence: Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery and Mathematics Behind Them

Religion & Spirituality

King, Brian

Occult & Paranormal

Thomas Dunne Books

Beyond Coincidence recounts and analyzes more than two hundred amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of:
Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon from her backyard. It lands 140 miles away in the backyard of another Laura Buxton, also age ten. 
Two sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both sisters are killed. 
The winning number in the evening drawing of the New York Lottery three-digit "numbers" game on September 11, 2002 is 9-1-1. 
From magic and religion to subatomic particles and the laws of probability, Beyond Coincidence deeply explores the roots of luck, odds, and circumstance while telling amazing stories that will have you shaking your head.

Beyond Coincidence: Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery Behind Them

Reference

St. Martin's: Griffin

Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden. It lands 140 miles away in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten. Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence? 
Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being granted an insight into a hyper-connected universe whose ubiquitous web-like workings we can only dimly discern? 
Beyond Coincidence is a celebration of the universe’s most beguiling phenomenon, containing more than 250 amazing stories of coincidence. From sympathetic magic to the science of probability, from the vicissitudes of gamblers to the mysterious communions of subatomic particles, this book chases coincidence in all its many guises, analysing how it affects every aspect of our lives and why it means so much to even the most sceptical of us. 
‘A first-rate book’ The Observer 
‘Guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine’ Good Book Guide 
‘Extraordinary stories’ Daily Mail

Beyond Coincidence

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Icon Books

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Plimmer, Martin. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Plimmer, Martin