The Skeleton Crew


Book Description

In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and accident victims, separated from their names, are being adopted by the bizarre online world of amateur sleuths. It's DIY CSI. The web sleuths pore over facial reconstructions (a sort of Facebook for the dead) and other online clues as they vie to solve cold cases and tally up personal scorecards of dead bodies. The Skeleton Crew delves into the macabre underside of the Internet, the fleeting nature of identity, and how even the most ordinary citizen with a laptop and a knack for puzzles can reinvent herself as a web sleuth.




The Skeleton


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For fans of dystopian action adventure, a small group of survivors make their way across a changed planet. The carnivore plague has engulfed the earth, any who eat meat are consumed by it, transforming into mindless savages who only want to eat more and more. Only the mysterious Skeleton and his gang of vicious vegetarians have survived and have a chance to find a cure... if they don't become dinner first.




The Search for WondLa


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Eva Nine was raised by the robot Muthr. But when a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary she called home, twelve-year-old Eva is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her. She knows that other humans exist because of a very special item she treasures ~ a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl, an adult, and a robot along with the strange word "WondLa". Tony DiTerlizzi honours traditional children's literature in this totally original space age adventure: one that is as complex as an alien planet, but as simple as a child's wish for a place to belong.




Built on Bones


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The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why. Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in Built on Bones. Using research on skeletal remains from around the world, this book explores the history of humanity's experiment with the metropolis, and looks at why our ancestors chose city life, and why they have largely stuck to it. It explains the diseases, the deaths and the many other misadventures that we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the metropolitan past, and as the world becomes increasingly urbanised, what we can look forward to in the future. Telling the tale of shifts in human growth and health that have occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a largely settled species. Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our recent evolution.




Super Science Crosswords


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Children will learn about plants, animals and other science subjects through the use of crossword puzzles.




Skeleton Crew


Book Description

Skeleton Crew is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers "Zzz " The three skeletons enjoy a holiday on-board their little boat. But one night - "Yo-ho-ho" - the pirates come and put them out to sea on a tiny raft, launching them on an oceanful of new adventures. 'By far our best writer for the young' - Daily Telegraph Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books, including Peepo , Each Peach Pear Plum and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning The Jolly Postman. Other titles in the Funnybones series include Funnybones, The Ghost Train, The Black Cat, The Pet Shop, Bumps in the Night, Dinosaur Dreams, Mystery Tour, Give the Dog a Bone and A Brilliant Bone Rattling Collection, all of which are available from Puffin.




Ultimate Crossword Mix


Book Description

The Ultimate Crossword Mix contains an astonishing range of over 30 types of crossword variant, from the most common of all crosswords - the quick crossword - through to other familiar favourites such as the general knowledge and cryptic crossword, together with a mix of quirky and entertaining variants that are rarely seen in print or brand new for this remarkably diverse collection. All of which makes it a must for crossword fans and puzzle enthusiasts generally. The book contains over 100 puzzles in total spread across the different types. Every time a new crossword variant is introduced, a clear explanation of what the puzzle type is and how to play it is given. Depending on the puzzle type the introduction might be short and snappy or much more detailed - the cryptic crosswords have an introduction several pages long in order to explain the various different clue types you might encounter. Solutions for every puzzle are included at the back of the book, together with further explanations as necessary (all cryptic crossword answers are explained in addition to simply being presented with the solution grids). Crossword puzzle types and variants you'll encounter in The Ultimate Crossword Mix include the following: - Quick crossword - General knowledge crossword - Cryptic crossword - Skeleton crossword - Arrow word - Code word - A-Z puzzle - Themed crossword - Anagram crossword - Missing vowel crossword ... and many more! We hope this unique collection will provide you with many, many hours of satisfaction and crosswording fun!




Yorick and Bones


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Hear ye, hear ye! Father-daughter duo Jeremy and Hermione Tankard are pleased to introduce the first book in a rib-tickling, heartfelt full-color graphic novel series perfect for fans of Bird & Squirrel! Yorick is a skeleton who was just dug up after a few hundred years of sleep. He speaks like it too. “Forsooth, my joy, I barely can contain!” Bones is the hungry dog who did the digging. Though he cannot speak, he can chomp. What will become of these two unlikely companions? Will Yorick ever find the friend he seeks? Will Bones ever find a tasty treat that does not talk back? The course of true friendship never did run smooth.




The New York Times Monday Crossword Puzzle Omnibus


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Monday might not be your favorite day to head to the office but if you're a crossword solver who enjoys the Times's easiest puzzles, you can't wait for Monday to roll around. This first volume of our new series collects all your favorite start-of-the week puzzles in one huge omnibus. Features: - 200 easy Monday crosswords - Big omnibus volume is a great value for solvers - The New York Times-the #1 brand name in crosswords - Edited by Will Shortz: the celebrity of U.S. crossword puzzling




SHADOWBOX Logical Crossword Puzzles


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Shadowbox is a new breed of crossword puzzle, the progeny of Fill-In crosswords and Skeleton crosswords. Faced with a seemingly random arrangement of grey and white squares and a list of words, you must bring order to the chaos and construct a perfectly symmetrical crossword. Shadowbox puzzles require neither knowledge nor guesswork, as every puzzle can be solved purely by logical deduction. Shadowbox puzzles are an entertaining and addictive new variation on the crossword tradition.