Visitors from the Red Planet and 76 Other Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries
Combining science and suspense, Dr. Crypton serves up 77 mini-mysteries that the reader can actually solve. Each story turns on a logical error, a wayward fact, or a bemusing riddle. Line drawings. 17,500 print (paper).
The Riddle of Scheherazade: And Other Amazing Puzzles, Ancient and Modern
Once again in trouble with the king and in danger of losing her head, clever Scheherazade teases the king with a selection of 225 devious mathematical and logic puzzles, including Go+a5delian brain twisters, paradoxes, metapuzzles, logic tricks, number games, and more. 10,000 first printing."
Book 11 in the Magic Tree House series (1998) A novel by Mary Pope Osborne Jack and Annie are whisked off to the vast plains of Africa, where they must solve Morgan le Fay's third magical riddle. But that's only the beginning! Once the riddle is solved, they still have to get past a pride of lions, a humongous herd of rampaging wildebeests, and one very hungry Masai warrior.
Book 12 in the Magic Tree House series (1998) A novel by Mary Pope Osborne The Magic Tree House transports Jack and Annie to the freezing Arctic. There, they must solve the final riddle to become master librarians. But it's not going to be easy--especially when they have cracking ice, a seal hunter, and a prodigious polar bear to deal with. Will they be able to solve the riddle before they get iced themselves?
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Unabridged Read by Christopher Cazenove With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.
