Aury Wallington
Heroes: Saving Charlie "Save the cheerleader, save the world" are the defining words of Heroes, the phenomenal series that has transformed television drama. They are also the cryptic marching orders for the show's cross section of ordinary ... [... more]
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Dayna Dunbar
Aletta Honor's psychic gift for reading people's futures seems to have vanished overnight. What is curious is that the disappearance coincided with a mysterious visit from a Native American who came bearing an eagle feather and a cryptic message. ... [... more]
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Justin Richards
Matt Stribling is stuck spending another holiday with his brilliant yet scatterbrained archaeologist father. When Matt arrives to find the place turned upside down and his father missing, he's not immediately worried. But a cryptic message and ... [... more]
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Richard Gwyn
Lucas, a musician and translator, comes home one day to find a cryptic postcard on his doorstep. This postcard sets in motion a series of bizarre, seemingly interconnected events, leading Lucas and his girlfriend, Nuria, to be kidnapped by a ... [... more]
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Charlie Higson
This is no ordinary weekend. But then, James Bond is no ordinary boy. . . . In a north London cemetery, a professor is kidnapped at gunpoint. Then, a suspicious letter crammed with cryptic clues arrives at Eton. To decipher the deadly mystery, ... [... more]
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Martin Buber
This edition, bringing together Volumes One and Two of Buber's classic work, contains marvelous tales - terse, vigorous, often cryptic - of the Hasidic masters. Tales of the Hasidim Martin Buber On Judaism [... more]
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Steven Daly
At last! An A-to-Z reference guide for readers who want to learn the cryptic language of Rock Snobs, those arcana-obsessed people who speak of "Rickenbacker guitars" and "Gram Parsons." We've all been there--trapped in a conversation [... more]
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Random House Guide to Cryptic Crosswords: How to Solve ...
 how-to: Cox and Rathvon are the best in the biz at cryptic crosswords, and this is an excellent introduction to their work. They have written a very clear and helpful explanation for how cluing works in cryptics, and also a variety of puzzles to practice [... more]
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101 Cryptic Crosswords: From the New Yorker
Welcome collection of small cryptics: The "New Yorker" ran slender puzzle column for a couple of years in a marvelous attempt to introduce cryptic crosswords to a larger US audience. These 8 x 10 barred diagrams were composed by many of the [... more]
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Atlantic Monthly Cryptic Crosswords, The
Lacking any wit or humor.: This collection of cryptics depends on its inventiveness in the unique structures that the creators have developed for each puzzle. However, this hardly makes up for the forced and unimaginative definitions offered which, after [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Random House Guide to Cryptic Crosswords
how-to: Cox and Rathvon are the best in the biz at cryptic crosswords, and this is an excellent introduction to their work. They have written a very clear and helpful explanation for how cluing works in cryptics, and also a variety of puzzles to practice [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Hidden Code of Cryptic Crosswords
Awkward: This book is rather muddled. In an attempt to explicate the workings of the cryptic clue, the author has invented a bewildering variety of terms (e.g. olapsek, parabrebit) that makes the text more confusing than the clues themselves. Poor [... more]
CDN$15.95
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