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The official utterly addictive number-placing puzzle Here comes trouble! These all new Easy to Medium puzzles will give you a run for your money. More than just hours of entertainment, Su Doku engages your mind, improves your concentration, and helps you stay mentally fit. With 150 brand-new puzzles to complete, you''ll become a Su Doku master in no time!

An easy-to-use handbook for home-repair novices offers clear, practical instructions for performing a wide variety of common household repairs, covering the basics of painting, decorating, home security, plumbing, carpentry, and other fundamental skills. Original.

Two men photographed each other stealing thousands of dollars from gambling machines. An armed man successfully robbed a pharmacy and was captured after he boasted about it on social media. A burglar spent time cleaning the house he was robbing and even restocked some groceries before he was discovered fast asleep in the homeowner’s bed. Two drunken louts stole a penguin from an aquarium and tried to release it into a canal once they were sober (the creature was returned to the polar enclosure, unharmed). Another man attempted to hold up a bank using a cucumber as a weapon. Two fellows tried to rob a bar where the town’s police department was holding a retirement party for one of its members. For every Moriarty, there are a thousand stupid criminals who get caught in the act, or who boast about their success on social media, or whose plans are so foolish that the police have little difficulty tracking them down. Throughout history, these criminals have been easily captured; some have even died during an ill-fated escape. New criminals are apprehended every day thanks to their own genius, their exploits captured on YouTube and Instagram. The World’s Dumbest Criminals records more than one hundred of the most ridiculous, absurd and bizarre crimes that have landed on the police blotter in recent years. Hilarious and outrageous, this book will make you shake your head and perhaps second-guess your own plans to commit petty larceny.

A rejacket of the NRSV Cross Reference Bible with the Deuterocanonical books/Apocrypha The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is steadily increasing in popularity. It is highly respected among academics, including evangelicals, and popular in theological colleges, where it is preferred to the New International Version. The NRSV sensitively avoids gender exclusivity without any loss of accuracy or clarity, and retains the traditional style of referring to God as ''He'' or ''Him.'' This edition has an attractive, stylish and readable page design. It incorporates both cross references and the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, and will be an ideal edition for students and serious Bible readers.

The Ecco/Amistad Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler features excerpts from our upcoming novels and story collections: Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng Peripatetic Coffin by Ethan Rutherford Together Tea by Marjan Kamali The Son by Philipp Meyer The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer Tampa by Alissa Nutting Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda In The Son—an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land—Philipp Meyer maps the legacy of violence in the American west and presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (heralded as "wonderful" by John Irving) beautifully wrestles with the impossibility of "what could be" as a woman with nowhere left to turn undergoes radical electroshock therapy. In Together Tea, we meet a loving mother who is determined to make her daughter''s life work out: one Excel spreadsheet at a time. The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin (which Alice Sebold called "100% Grade-A storytelling") examine the ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. In the "beautifully written and epic" (Nathan Englander) Southern Cross the Dog, three childhood friends cope with the devastating aftermath of the Great Flood of 1927 in Mississippi. Visitation Street is "urban opera writ large" (Dennis Lehane); the novel explores the reactions of a blue-collar community after a teenaged girl mysteriously disappears from the banks of their rough-hewn waterfront. And in Tampa, we inhabit the mind of Celeste—a smoldering 26-year-old middle school teacher who unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of her 14-year-old student.

Introduces Indiana Jones and chronicles some of his adventures.

"If you buy one book ... for sheer fun, there''s no question it should be this one". -- San Diego Union Tribune Edward is fired of being an emu, so he decides to try being something else for a change. First he spends some time swimming with the seals. Next, he lounges with the lions. He even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may not be so bad after all. So he heads back to his pen, only to find a big surprise awaiting him .... Sheena Knowles''s upbeat, rhyming text and Rod Clement''s deliciously droll illustrations are sure to make readers laugh out loud in this whimsical picture book by the creators of Edwina the Emu.

Ten thousand quotations capturing American life and history record the words of the famous and the lesser-known on topics ranging from politics and places to entertainment and sports

This guide looks at the hotels, restaurants, shops and museums available in the city of Los Angeles. The book is laid out in the same format as the city itself so that places of interest within easy travelling distance can be determined.

This guide looks at the hotels, restaurants, shops and museums available in the city of Chicago. The book is laid out in the same format as the city itself so that places of interest within easy travelling distance can be determined.

This guide looks at the hotels, restaurants, shops and museums available in the city of Washington. The book is laid out in the same format as the city itself so that places of interest within easy travelling distance can be determined.

This guide looks at the hotels, restaurants, shops and museums available in the city of San Francisco. The book is laid out in the same format as the city itself so that places of interest within easy travelling distance can be determined.

Two friends explore various jobs and professions.