Author: The New York Times
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9781250803443
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The New York Times Crosswords: Sophisticated puzzles for everyone With 100 easy-to-hard puzzles in a smart, striking design, the Blue and Yellow edition of The New York Times Classic Crossword Puzzles is the perfect gift or keepsake for any crossword lover. Its sturdy, journal-style packaging with ribbon marker and removable jacket means you can solve in style wherever you go. Features: - High-quality paper allows you to solve with pen or pencil. - Cloth ribbon marker helps you keep your place so you can easily return to the puzzle you're working on. - Removable cover band leaves a discreet and sophisticated hardcover book. - All puzzles originally printed in The New York Times and edited by Will Shortz, the top two names in crosswords.
Author: The New York Times
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312361228
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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The biggest, best collection of Sunday crosswords ever published!
Author: The New York Times
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 031254619X
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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New York Times crossword solvers have always had style and here's the book to prove it. This petite puzzle book, the size and weight of an address book, is perfect for slipping into your purse or briefcase. Features: *100 easy puzzles *Elastic binding strap *Puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Author: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316317691
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This breathtaking, full-color illustrated fantasy is inspired by Chinese folklore, and is a companion to the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most thrilling tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller. Everyone knows that the Emperor wants something called the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night. Determined to have her grandmother returned, Pinmei embarks on a journey to find the Luminous Stone alongside her friend Yishan, a mysterious boy who seems to have his own secrets to hide. Together, the two must face obstacles usually found only in legends to find the Luminous Stone and save Pinmei's grandmother--before it's too late. A fast-paced adventure that is extraordinarily written and beautifully illustrated, When the Sea Turned to Silver is a masterpiece companion novel to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Starry River of the Sky.
Author: The New York Times
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312654316
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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This collection contains 50 Sunday puzzles from the pages of "The New York Times."
Author: David Goodman
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 9789813235205
Category : Mathematical recreations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"The Tangram is one of the most ancient puzzles in the world, focused on deciphering silhouettes composed with the seven pieces. This book presents a collection of totally different types of puzzles. The puzzles we present here use the pieces as building blocks only, and present many versatile challenges, from all types of recreational mathematics fields. For example, here you will find symmetry puzzles, cover-up puzzles and even a Poker-related puzzle. In several puzzles we will use not all seven pieces but a subset of them, and there are also puzzles for which you will need to join all pieces from two Tangram sets. From the moment we changed the rules (using the seven pieces to decipher silhouettes) we felt that the sky is the limit! There is something magical and enchanting in those seven pieces that enabled us to find many puzzles and challenges! Almost all the puzzles presented are new, unique and original. Some are based on classic puzzles, as well as more modern ones, modified and presented with using the set of Tangram pieces"--
Author: Anne Brown
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402705823
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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They look like crosswords, but don't be fooled. Acrostics, those two-tiered word games, provide double the fun. First figure out the answers to semantic clues as in a crossword. But, the challenge of these forty puzzles doesn't stop there. Use your answers to transform the empty grid into a literary passage. Definitions, answers, and quotes draw on your knowledge of classic masters like Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Poe and assess your pop culture prowess with references to Julia Roberts, Rawhide, and NHL Stanley Cup winners. Dust the cobwebs from your brain and find out how much you really know about music, history, geography, and even mythology. Break free from the standard word puzzle and tackle the twofold challenge of acrostics for an enlightening change of pace.
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Author: Marie Arana
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501105019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). “Meticulously researched, [this] book’s greatest strengths are the power of its epic narrative, the beauty of its prose, and its rich portrayals of character…Marvelous” (The Washington Post). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation on earth. Like her late husband, she works the gold mines much as the Indians were forced to do at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Illiteracy, malnutrition, and disease reign as they did five hundred years ago. And now, just as then, a miner’s survival depends on a vast global market whose fluctuations are controlled in faraway places. Carlos Buergos is a Cuban who fought in the civil war in Angola and now lives in a quiet community outside New Orleans. He was among hundreds of criminals Cuba expelled to the US in 1980. His story echoes the violence that has coursed through the Americas since before Columbus to the crushing savagery of the Spanish Conquest, and from 19th- and 20th-century wars and revolutions to the military crackdowns that convulse Latin America to this day. Xavier Albó is a Jesuit priest from Barcelona who emigrated to Bolivia, where he works among the indigenous people. He considers himself an Indian in head and heart and, for this, is well known in his adopted country. Although his aim is to learn rather than proselytize, he is an inheritor of a checkered past, where priests marched alongside conquistadors, converting the natives to Christianity, often forcibly, in the effort to win the New World. Ever since, the Catholic Church has played a central role in the political life of Latin America—sometimes for good, sometimes not. In this “timely and excellent volume” (NPR) Marie Arana seamlessly weaves these stories with the history of the past millennium to explain three enduring themes that have defined Latin America since pre-Columbian times: the foreign greed for its mineral riches, an ingrained propensity to violence, and the abiding power of religion. Silver, Sword, and Stone combines “learned historical analysis with in-depth reporting and political commentary...[and] an informed and authoritative voice, one that deserves a wide audience” (The New York Times Book Review).
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Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN: 1586853244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Includes 12 easy-to-assemble punch-out train cars that are modeled after the historic trains in the collection of the New York Transit Museum.
