Download or read book Pocket Posh Word Lover s Puzzle Quiz Book written by The Puzzle Society and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new theme for our best-selling Pocket Posh® series, we present one hundred puzzles created for those who love the power and beauty of words. You don't have to be a logophile (a lover of words) to enjoy this puzzle collection, but if you are one, this is the puzzle book for you—100 puzzles and quizzes themed for the love of words and the English language. Included in this collection are word searches themed to adjectives beginning with "a," common regular verbs, adjectives ending in "cious," words originally from Dutch, Latin phrases in everyday English, and so on. Also, pathfinder puzzles themed for French words used in English, idioms, poets, and names of authors are included in this collection. In addition, there are codewords that, when deciphered, spell out quotes about the power and beauty of words. Crossword, word search, anagram, codeword, word wheel, kriss kross, arroword, quizzes, and other fun puzzle types are all presented here with themes relating to our love of words and reading. This attractive, tidy package is sized for portability and is part of our best-selling series of puzzle books that feature highly stylized, embellished covers and boast 5 million copies in print. A free trial subscription to The Puzzle Society™ adds extra value.
Download or read book Pocket Posh Logic written by The Puzzle Society and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sophisticated and feminine puzzle book is small in size but big on fun and style. Pocket Posh Sudoku 3 has 100 fun puzzles. The cover features an irresistibly tactile design. It is the perfect accessories and go with everything. It is the perfect take-along; plus, this little gem slips nicely into either a purse or pocket. Fun and smart. What's not to love? * Pretty, smart. The slim design of this popular puzzle book makes is the go-to puzzle book for energetic girls. * Puzzles are a smart form of exercise. According to the American Society on Aging, 84 percent of people polled spend time daily in activities such as puzzle solving. While there isn't conclusive evidence that doing puzzles increases brain function, it certainly can't hurt!
Download or read book Pocket Posh Word Roundup 5 written by The Puzzle Society and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth in the series, this Word Roundup collection presents 100 puzzles designed with the flair of our best-selling Pocket Posh style. More than 330,000 Pocket Posh Word Roundup books have sold across the series! We present our 5th Pocket Posh Word Roundup collection for anytime fun and all-around gift giving. Word Roundup™ puzzles are even more popular than word search. Unlike traditional word searches, Word Roundup™ gives clues to the words hidden within the puzzles. The words themselves are for solvers to figure out. This attractive package is sized for portability and is part of our best-selling series of puzzle books that feature highly stylized, embellished covers and boast 5 million copies in print. A free trial subscription to The Puzzle Society™ adds extra value.
Download or read book Pocket Posh Crosswords 6 written by The Puzzle Society and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our 6th collection of Pocket Posh® crossword puzzles featuring 75 puzzles of medium-level difficulty packaged in our signature, trademarked style. The number 6 symbolizes beauty; in math, it's the first perfect number. Pocket Posh® Crosswords 6 is both beautiful and perfect for hours of puzzling fun. This portable package is part of a best-selling series featuring highly stylized, embellished covers and boasting 5 million copies in print. A free trial subscription to The Puzzle Society™ adds extra value.
Download or read book Pocket Posh Killer Sudoku 2 written by The Puzzle Society and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new collection of Killer Sudoku puzzles, the Sudoku variation that has sold over 45,000 copies in the Pocket Posh® series. Our second collection of Pocket Posh Killer Sudoku presents 100 puzzles in four difficulty levels. In addition to the rules of traditional Sudoku, the sum of the digits in each inner cage must equal the number in the top left corner of the cage. This portable package is part of a best-selling series featuring highly stylized, embellished covers and boasting 5 million copies in print. A free trial subscription to The Puzzle Society™ adds extra value.
Download or read book The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book written by Neil Somerville and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make a literary escape into the pages of a puzzle book! Are you bursting with literary knowledge that you’d like to put to the test? Or do you just want a moment’s distraction filling in a Harry Potter- or Lord of the Rings-themed crossword puzzle, looking up the names of Charles Dickens’s characters in a word search, or completing a Jane Austen sudoku puzzle? The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book offers puzzles of varying difficulty levels and literary themes that will amuse, excite, and inform. This handy, portable pocket-sized book features 120 craft conundrums that will keep you scratching your head over famous author pen names and obscure literary terms as you exercise your knowledge on Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Henry James, and James Joyce. These puzzles include: • Anagrams and cryptograms • Crosswords and word searches • Riddles and quizes • Sudoku • And many more! For all book-loving puzzle solvers or puzzle-loving book readers, The Literary Pocket Puzzle Book is the perfect avenue to unwind, or be challenged.
Download or read book Hunt A Killer The Detective s Puzzle Book written by Hunt A Killer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your crime-solving wits to the test with codes, ciphers, and mind-bending puzzles from the creators of the popular murder mystery subscription box. In Hunt A Killer: The Detective’s Puzzle Book, you’ll meet up with private eye Michelle Gray who needs you to hit the books and fine-tune your investigative skills before the next big murder case. Under her expert guidance, you’ll start with “Investigative Best Practices” before diving into a world of curious ciphers, devious riddles, and other intriguing logic puzzles all designed to take you from amateur sleuth to a top-notch lead detective. With non-narrative puzzles, you can pick up this training manual anytime you need to sharpen your skills, between episodes, or whenever you need a fun challenge. Whether you’re a Hunt A Killer member, armchair detective, or logic puzzle junkie, these deceptively difficult but always fun puzzles will have you breaking codes and cracking Hunt A Killer cases in no time. So pick up a pen, grab your magnifying glass, and get sleuthing.
Download or read book The Transit of Venus written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.
Download or read book Tree of Smoke written by Denis Johnson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Download or read book A Manual for Cleaning Women written by Lucia Berlin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016 A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place. "Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis
Download or read book Verity written by Colleen Hoover and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Download or read book I Know This Much Is True written by Wally Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-03 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Download or read book Love Dishonor Marry Die Cherish Perish written by David Rakoff and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century. David Rakoff, who died in 2012 at the age of 47, built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel, written with humour, sympathy and tenderness, proves him the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Download or read book My First Crossword Puzzle Book written by Anna Pomaska and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five charmingly illustrated puzzles, each with pictures of 4 different subjects — toy, animal, storybook characters. Helpful hints show where to write in correct letters. Numbered pictures correspond to numbers on first square of word to be spelled. Some squares filled in. Solutions.
Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Download or read book Pocket Posh Crosswords written by The Puzzle Society and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sophisticated and feminine puzzle book is small in size but big on fun and style. Pocket Posh Crosswords has 75 fun puzzles. The cover features an irresistibly tactile design. It is the perfect accessories and go with everything. It is the perfect take-along; plus, this little gem slips nicely into either a purse or pocket. This sophisticated and feminine puzzle book is small in size but big on fun and style. Pocket Posh Crosswords has 75 fun puzzles. The cover features an irresistibly tactile design. It is the perfect accessories and go with everything. It is the perfect take-along; plus, this little gem slips nicely into either a purse or pocket. Fun and smart. What's not to love? * Pretty, smart. The slim design of this popular puzzle book makes is the go-to puzzle book for energetic girls. * Puzzles are a smart form of exercise. According to the American Society on Aging, 84 percent of people polled spend time daily in activities such as puzzle solving. While there isn't conclusive evidence that doing puzzles increases brain function, it certainly can't hurt!
