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From puzzlemaster and New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz comes sudoku, the new "wordless crossword" puzzle that's taking the world by storm! Once you start, you won't want to stop. These addictive puzzles are easy to explain - just fill the grid with numbers according to the few simple rules - but incredibly fun and engaging to complete.This brand-new collection features original sudoku ranging from effortlessly easy to devilishly difficult, along with an introduction from Will Shortz that explains these fascinating puzzles and how to solve them. If you're a crossword fan, a fan of logic puzzles, or just a puzzle lover in general, you will be engrossed and delighted with sudoku!Contains 100 puzzles

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In his runaway bestseller NEVER BE LIED TO AGAIN, Dr David Lieberman broke new ground with his insights on the way people communicate. Now he revolutionises interpersonal relationships with GET ANYONE TO DO ANYTHING, another phenomenal New York Times bestseller. Lieberman is a master at exploring the human psyche. With this intriguing, provocative book, he explains how to read people, how to avoid being manipulated and how to get the upper hand in every situation.

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An account of the adventures of a big-game hunter offers glimpses of man-eating leopards, fear-maddened elephants, charging buffalo, cunning hyenas, and other great killers of the African bush country.

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This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book from Susan J Napier, Anime from Akira to Howl''s Moving Castle, is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime. Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki''s Spirited Away. It confirmed that anime is more than just children''s cartoons, often portraying important social and cultural themes. With new chapters on Spirited Away and other recent releases, including Howl''s Moving Castle-- which broke records in Japan--this edition will be the authoritative source on anime for an exploding market of viewers who want to know more.

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An NBC Dateline producer''s cinematic account of his two-decade journey navigating the broken criminal justice system to help free six innocent menIn 2002, Dan Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's Dateline, received a tip from a Bronx homicide detective that two men were serving twenty-five years to life in prison for a 1990 murder they did not commit.Haunted by what the detective had told him, Slepian began an investigation of the case that eventually resulted in freedom for the two men and launched Slepian on a two-decade personal and professional journey into a deeply flawed justice system fiercely resistant to rectifyingor even acknowledgingits mistakes and their consequences.The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice is Slepian's account of challenging that system. The story follows Slepian on years of prison visits, court hearings, and street reporting that led to a seri

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Serious solvers know that the puzzles in The New York Times get harder as the week goes on. From an easy Monday to a downright difficult Friday puzzle, this brand new collection is sure to challenge you with each passing day. See how far you can get! Features: - 50 puzzles from Monday (easy) to Friday (tough!) - Covered spiral binding for convenient, lay-flat solving - Edited by the #1 name in crosswords, Will Shortz

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When the going gets tough, pick up a crossword puzzle! The Friday and Saturday New York Times crosswords are the hardest of the week, and this collection has a value-packed 200 puzzles. If you crave a challenge, you've met your match. Features: - 200 Friday and Saturday puzzles from The New York Times - Puzzles edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Convenient portable paperback size for on-the-go solving

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A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time.What Michael Lewis did for baseball in Moneyball, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden do brilliantly for the world of ransomware and hackers. Cinematic, big in scope, and meticulously reported, this book is impossible to put down. Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse SoldiersScattered across the world, an elite team of code crackers is working tirelessly to thwart the defining cyber scourge of our time. You've probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, or simply cherish your digital data, you may be painfully familiar with the team's sworn enemy: ransomware. Again and again, an unlikely band of misfits, mostly self-taught and often struggling to make ends meet, have outwitted the underworld of hackers wh

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L. M. Sagas''s debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes''s Divide series with Firefly. It features a fierce, messy, chaotic space family, vibrant worlds, and an exploration of the many ways to beand not to behuman.Most Anticipated Books of 2024Goodreads, Polygon, The Nerd DailyBest SFF Novels of 2024 (so far)BookpageThere are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union''s labor''s leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone''s hands above the table. It ain''t easy.Branded a Guild deserter, Jal accidentally lands a ride on a Guild ship. Helmed by an AI, with a ship''s engineer/medic who doesn''t see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a don''t make me shoot you XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is a little . . . different.They''re also in over their heads. Responding to a distr

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A gorgeous book with scares enough for the brave at heart and heart enough for everyone. I loved every page. Lora Senf, author of The ClackityIn this spooky middle grade novel perfect for fans of Small Spaces, Doll Bones, and V. E. Schwab, a young girl's deepest fears take on terrifying new life when she confronts a supernatural foe who can manipulate her nightmares.Penny Hope used to be brave, but that was before she met the Fear Maker. Years later, he still haunts her dreamsa tall, thin man with red eyes, in a haunted house in the woods, who devours human souls and leaves his victims'' eyes hollow and empty. Penny's beloved grandma tells her to write down these nightmares as poems in her notebook. But then Penny starts seeing blank-eyed people in the waking world, too. She's the only one who notices.As more people around her fall prey to the Fear Maker, Penny must gather her courage once and for all to save the souls of t

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In the face of hardship, two women learn how to rise up again under the bright side of the stars in A Certain Kind of Starlight, the next book from USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber, the queen of magical small-town charm (Amy E. Reichert)Everyone knows that Addie Fullbright can't keep a secret. Yet, twelve years ago, as her best friend lay dying, she entrusted Addie with the biggest secret of all. One so shattering that Addie felt she had to leave her hometown of Starlight, Alabama, to keep from revealing a devastating truth to someone she cares for deeply. Now she's living a lonely life, keeping everyone at a distance, not only to protect the secret but also her heart from the pain of losing someone else. But when her beloved aunt, the woman who helped raise her, gets a shocking diagnosis and asks her to come back to Starlight to help run the family bakery, Addie knows it's finally time to go home again. Tessa Jane Wingrove-Fullbright

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13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL.The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this time, the white guy dies first. Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and rich kids who got bored. Friendly cannibals, impossible slashers, and the dead who don't stay dead....A museum curator who despises diasporic inaccuracies. A sweet girl and her diary of happy thoughts. An old house that just wants friends forever.... These stories are filled with ancient terrors and modern villains, but go ahead, go into the basement, step onto the old plantation, and open the magician's mystery box because this time, the white guy dies first.Edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker, including stories from bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming contributors: Adiba Jaigirdar, Alexis Henderson, Chloe Gong, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, H. E. Edgmon, Kalynn B

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