Download or read book The Fabulous 1950 s Themed Crossword Puzzles written by Miranda Powell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fabulous 1950's is a Themed Crossword Puzzle Book all about the United States culture of the Fifties. Over 95% of the clues are about the puzzle theme. Grid style is just like the cover. Also including: 50's Trivia World Facts "Doo-Wop" Quiz Iconic 1950's Print Ads Over 1000 Crossword-Style Clues Immerse yourself in the 1950's with these 50 themed crosswords.. Go back in time to the days of Elvis, Rock 'n Roll, Hula Hoops, Cars with Fins and Leave it to Beaver. They were called the "boomer" years. The economy boomed, marriages boomed, there was a housing boom and the birth rate boomed. TV was in its infancy and optimism was everywhere. Some of the puzzle titles are: TV Shows of the 1950's Celebrities Born in the 1950's Favorite Candy Snacks Cars, Cars, Cars All About Elvis American Bandstand Those Scary 50's Movies Leave It to Beaver 1950's Pot Luck #1 Game Shows and more! Relax, unwind and have fun solving these entertaining puzzles.

Download or read book The Big Book of TV Guide Crosswords 2 written by TV Guide Editors and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 1993-07-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 250 favorite TV Guide crossword puzzles, this colossal collection is guaranteed to provide hours of mind-puzzling fun.

Download or read book Genius Level Sudoku written by Nikoli Publishing and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extra tricky. Extra tough. It's the sudoku collection that's not for the faint of heart. If you're craving the challenge, sharpen your pencil and pit your wits against the Japanese puzzle-makers at the top of their game. In each of these more than 300 handcrafted puzzles, ranked by difficulty from expert to x-treme to ultimate, every move is an adventure, a one-on-one challenge with a grandmaster who delights in elegance, symmetry, and building in the occasional roadblock. But keep going. You'll solve it eventually... you genius! Can't get enough? Look for: The Original Sudoku The Original Sudoku Book 2 More Original Sudoku X-treme Sudoku Expert Sudoku The Original Sudoku Page-a-Day Calendar

Download or read book Word written by Natan Last and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created by Natan Last, a senior at Brown University, three-time intern with Will Shortz, and in 2008 the youngest person to have a puzzle published in the Sunday New York Times, Word kicks the crossword puzzle squarely into the 21st century for a new generation of puzzle-lovers, replacing fusty crossword-ese with hip cultural references, modern wordplay, and a lively mix of high-and low-brow pop trivia. A Word puzzle begins with the shared knowledge of a literate but not-so-reverent generation, and celebrates the knowingness with a deft touch. Your parents' crosswords make solvers feel smart. Word puzzles make solvers feel smart and cool, getting the references to The Daily Show, Mario Brothers, the Goo Goo Dolls, and a hefty dose of nostalgia (the name of the motel in Psycho). But they also know the core curriculum: Charlotte Bronte's Jane, Roman generals, Berlioz and von Bismarck, Homer—and not just Homer Simpson. The puzzles are constructed with all the smarts of a daily Times crossword: themes, interconnected clues, titles that unlock the overall puzzle (solve all the clues and the circle letters will spell out a famous name at Hogwarts). Assisting Mr. Last is a group of five more top “under 25” constructors, all of whom have published puzzles in The New York Times.

Download or read book Brain Games 3 In 1 Word Search Sudoku Crosswords written by Brain Games and published by Brain Games. This book was released on 2020-08-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenge yourself in three different ways with this 3-in-1 book that includes word search, sudoku, and crossword puzzles. More than 100 puzzles to work through. Includes puzzles in a range of difficulty levels. Spiral binding allows the book to lay flat for comfortable puzzle solving. Answers in the back. 192 pages

Download or read book Stoner written by John Williams and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--

Download or read book What We Talk About When We Talk About Books written by Leah Price and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions. The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. In encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, 2020

Download or read book A Week at the Airport written by Alain De Botton and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and The Art of Travel spends a week at an airport in a wittily intriguing meditation on the "non-place" that he believes is the centre of our civilization. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever writer-in-residence. Given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around one of the world's busiest airports, he met travellers from all over the globe, and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots, and senior executives to the airport chaplain. Based on these conversations he has produced this extraordinary meditation on the nature of travel, work, relationships, and our daily lives. Working with the renowned documentary photographer Richard Baker, he explores the magical and the mundane, and the interactions of travellers and workers all over this familiar but mysterious "non-place," which by definition we are eager to leave. Taking the reader through departures, "air-side," and the arrivals hall, de Botton shows with his usual combination of wit and wisdom that spending time in an airport can be more revealing than we might think.

Download or read book The Laughing Monsters written by Denis Johnson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Johnson's New York Times bestseller, The Laughing Monsters, is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies at the back of it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland—but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others. Their journey through a land abandoned by the future leads Nair, Adriko, and Davidia to meet themselves not in a new light, but rather in a new darkness.

Download or read book The Man Who Loved Children written by Christina Stead and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”

Download or read book Cryptograms Puzzle Books for Adults written by Puzzle King Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Large Print Cryptogram Puzzle Book for Adults is a fun way for teens, adults, or seniors to sharpen their minds and test their logic skills. Including 400 Cryptoquotes from various sources including celebrities, historic characters, and books. Additional Features: Suitable for most Levels Medium to Hard Challenge Plenty of Puzzles 400 Cryptoquote / Cryptoquip puzzles Detailed instructions on how to solve the puzzles plus some tips Perfectly Sized - 7" x 10" Large Print - 5 well-spaced Puzzles per page Solutions and Hints can be Found at the Back of the Book Premium Matte Color Cover Puzzle King Publishing: Puzzle Books for Everyone!

Download or read book Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9

Download or read book WW2 Crossword Puzzle Book written by Hero Dotus and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best WW2 crossword puzzle book is only a click away! Various types of world war 2 topics. 100X pages of exciting WW2 word puzzles. Bonus WW2 scramble puzzles with hints. Hours of history-based puzzle solving fun! Are you ready for the greatest World War II puzzle book ever devised? You're going to love this crossword book because it provides tons of historically-accurate enjoyment and fun. Get it now!

Download or read book The Children s Bach written by Helen Garner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia’s greatest writers • "It’s high time American readers knew her generous, category-defying imagination."—New York Times "The Children’s Bach is [Garner’s] masterpiece."—Public Books Set in suburban Melbourne in the early 1980s, The Children’s Bach centers on Dexter and Athena Fox, their two sons, and the insulated world they’ve built together. Despite the routine challenges of domestic life, they are largely happy. But when a friend from Dexter’s past resurfaces and introduces the couple to the city’s bohemian underground—unbound by routine and driven by desire—Athena begins to wonder if life might hold more for her, and the tenuous bonds that tie the Foxes together start to fray. A literary institution in Australia, Helen Garner’s perfectly formed novels embody the tumultuous 1970s and 1980s. Drawn on a small canvas and with a subtle musical backdrop, The Children’s Bach is “a jewel” (Ben Lerner) within Garner’s revered catalogue, a beloved work that solidified her place among the masters of modern letters, a finely etched masterpiece that weighs the burdens of commitment against the costs of liberation.

Download or read book I Remember That written by Bill O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okay boomer, are you ready to get out of your chair, challenge your mind, and have some fun in the process? If so, then open up the pages of I Remember That! - Captivating Stories, Interesting Facts and Fun Trivia for Seniors, and embark on this epic trivia challenge that was written specifically for your generation. You'll take an engaging stroll down memory lane to test just how much you remember from the biggest moments in history, pop culture, and science from the first four decades after World War II. But if you're not a boomer, don't worry, you'll also have fun playing along.If you're from a younger generation but want to learn a little about the world your parents or grandparent grew up in, then this is a good place to start. You don't have to start in the beginning and go to the end. If '70s pop culture is your thing, then you can just read that, or if you want to learn about how grandma rocked a beehive hairdo in the '60s then you can start there. There's really no right or wrong way to read I Remember That!, but just remember to have fun! In this book you will find out the answers to some of these questions:?How did the internet go from a military project to the universities in the 1980s??When did Elvis Presley perform on the Ed Sullivan Show??What ever happened to 8-track tapes? ?Who was Lewis Urry and what did he have to do with flashlights and portable radios??How and when did the Berlin Wall go up?I Remember That! is divided into four chapters for each decade, with each chapter divided into subsections of history, pop culture, and science. At the end of each subsection is a ten-question quiz that you can play with your friends and family. There is also a "Did You Know?" page at the end of each subsection that adds a few more interesting tidbits to the subject.

Download or read book The 1960 s Themed Crossword Puzzles written by Miranda Powell and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hippies, Star Trek, Twiggy, Miniskirts, Flintstones, The Beatles, Sinatra The 1960's, "A Decade of Change" is a Themed Crossword Puzzle Book all about the United States culture of the Sixties ★ Over 1000 Crossword-Style Clues ★ ★ 99% of the clues are about the puzzle's theme. Grid style is just like the cover ★ Also including: 60's Trivia World Facts Quizzes Iconic 1960's Print Ads Immerse yourself in the 1960's with these 50 themed crosswords, Quizzes and fun facts. Go back in time to the days of Woodstock, The Beatles, Love Beads, Captain Kirk, Viet Nam and JFK. This really was "a decade of change." Some of the puzzle titles are: Bond, James Bond The "Fab Four" The Flintstones "Beam Me Up" Celebrities Born in the 1960's Flower Power The Bands of Woodstock Popular Toys of the Day Cartoon's of the 60's "Far Out and Outta Sight" The Dick Van Dyke Show Game Shows The Real "Mad Men" and more! "Author Miranda Powell once again hustles up great memories of past times while providing fun and memory challenges." G.H. Relax, unwind and have fun solving these entertaining puzzles.

Download or read book Tubeteasers written by Bruce M. Nash and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1984 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: