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Crisscross: A Repairman Jack Novel (Repairman Jack)
Repairman Jack is back! An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut in The Tomb. Jack can fix any problem, supernatural or otherwise, for a price. Now, in his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once. The first involves a nun being blackmailed by someone who has photos of her she doesn't want made public. What's in those photos, she won't say, but with her meager savings just about exhausted, she hires Jack to help her. The second seems straightforward enough, as an elderly woman hires Jack to find her missing son. But to locate his quarry, Jack must infiltrate the inner reaches of the Dormentalist Church, a secretive, globe-spanning cult whose members include some of the biggest and most powerful names in entertainment, sports, and politics. Ruthless in its pursuit of critics and enemies, the Church hides a sinister agenda known only to its ruling elite. But Jack can be ruthless, too, going to darker lengths than ever before as he crisscrosses the two fix-it jobs to settle the deadliest of scores! .
Price: $3.88
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Sit & Solve Crisscross Puzzles (Sit & Solve Series)
"Books for the smallest room in the house... "That generate BIG sales It's clear--people everywhere are sitting and solving! That's why more than 110,000 copies of this amazing series have jumped out of stores. With their amusing shape, great content, and price, these compilations are a must-have on every puzzler's shelf. And the quality of the problems, games, and trickery is superb and fabulously diverse. Go for great word searches, stimulating criss-cross puzzles, brilliant brainteasers; cunning logic games, cannily challenging IQ Tests, mysterious mathamatricks, and lots more..
Price: $0.30
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Crisscross Puzzles for Kids (Mensa)
The author of Science Puzzles for Young Einsteins (40,000 sold) serves up another helping of puzzle fun for kids. And children will really enjoy these, because it doesn't take a huge vocabulary to complete a crisscross. Solvers just have to figure out how to fit all the words listed on the page into the correct space on the grid, based on length and crossing letters. (There are plenty of hints to guide newcomers, too.) Kids will love doing these puzzles with great subjects like "At the Beach," "Baseball Terms," "Birthday Party," "Halloween Costumes," "Music," and many more. .
Price: $2.46
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The Grid Book
Emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to Mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. And yet, as Hannah Higgins makes clear in this wide-ranging and revelatory book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity; it is the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, moveable type, the manufactured box, and the net. Charting the evolution of each grid, from the Paleolithic brick of ancient Mesopotamia through the virtual connections of the Internet, Higgins demonstrates that once a grid is invented, it may bend, crumble, or shatter, but its organizing principle never disappears. The appearance of each grid was a watershed event. Brick, tablet, and city gridiron made possible sturdy housing, the standardization of language, and urban development. Maps, musical notation, financial ledgers, and moveable type promoted the organization of space, music, and time, international trade, and mass literacy. The screen of perspective painting heralded the science of the modern period, classical mechanics, and the screen arts, while the standardization of space made possible by the manufactured box suggested the purified box forms of industrial architecture and visual art. The net, the most ancient grid, made its first appearance in Stone Age Finland; today, the loose but clearly articulated networks of the World Wide Web suggest that we are witnessing the emergence of a grid of unprecedented proportions--one so powerful that is reshaping the world, as grids do, in its image..
Price: $16.47
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