The Baffle Book

The Baffle Book
Author: Lassiter Wren
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1928
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN:

The Baffle Book

The Baffle Book
Author: Lassiter Wren
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781567923193

Includes fifteen detective puzzles, the unravelling of which requires you to develop your latent powers of observation and deduction. In words, charts, and diagrams, this work puts you at the crime scene and presents you with the facts established by the police.

Brain Bafflers

Brain Bafflers
Author: Robert Steinwachs
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1993
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806987873

Get ready for more than 250 ways to baffle and befuddle your mind. Everything is fair game: your name, your friends and family, numbers and words!

Baffle That Bully!

Baffle That Bully!
Author: Chase Anichini
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2013-01-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781480094949

Meet Scarlett Jones - a third grader who went from bullying victim to victor over her bullies. And how did she do this? By turning her encounters with bullies into a game! Now, she wants to teach you how to play. "Baffle That Bully!" is a way of maintaining your cool while distracting bullies, throwing them off their game, and putting them in a game where you make the rules. The result: bullies decide for themselves to leave you alone, because it's no longer fun to pick on you. But the book is about more than overcoming bullying. It's also about being the keeper of your own feelings and not letting other people bring you down, no matter how hard they try. It's about believing in yourself. "Baffle That Bully!" was written by a family to help other families. Co-written by 9-year-old Chase Anichini, who was the target of emotional bullying for 2 years, and her mother Amy Jones Anichini, "Baffle That Bully!" teaches your child how to stay calm when others are trying their best to upset him/her. Chase's story and characters - some bullying targets and some bullies - are brought to life through the beautiful illustrations of her 12-year-old sister Jordan Anichini. Scarlett introduces 3 steps to playing "Baffle That Bully!" for your child to follow every single time someone is "mean" to him/her. Then she walks your child through several situations ("The Bully Encounters of Scarlett the Baffler") and explains how she applied the 3 steps to remain calm while throwing the bullies off of their well-rehearsed tactics. Scarlett demonstrates how to successfully Baffle YOUR Bully. When your child learns how to "Baffle That Bully!", he/she will not only distract the bully from their well-rehearsed tactics but will also gain confidence. That self-confidence and sense of self-esteem could help your child handle just about any unpleasant situation.

Saving History

Saving History
Author: Lauren R. Kerby
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-02-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 146965590X

Millions of tourists visit Washington, D.C., every year, but for some the experience is about much more than sightseeing. Lauren R. Kerby's lively book takes readers onto tour buses and explores the world of Christian heritage tourism. These expeditions visit the same attractions as their secular counterparts—Capitol Hill, the Washington Monument, the war memorials, and much more—but the white evangelicals who flock to the tours are searching for evidence that America was founded as a Christian nation. The tours preach a historical jeremiad that resonates far beyond Washington. White evangelicals across the United States tell stories of the nation's Christian origins, its subsequent fall into moral and spiritual corruption, and its need for repentance and return to founding principles. This vision of American history, Kerby finds, is white evangelicals' most powerful political resource—it allows them to shapeshift between the roles of faithful patriots and persecuted outsiders. In an era when white evangelicals' political commitments baffle many observers, this book offers a key for understanding how they continually reimagine the American story and their own place in it.

Oddities

Oddities
Author: Rupert Thomas Gould
Publisher: London : P. Allan
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1928
Genre: Curiosities and wonders
ISBN:

A Comedian's Prayer Book

A Comedian's Prayer Book
Author: Frank Skinner
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2021-04-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1529368979

A Comedian's Prayer Book. The title is a worry, isn't it?... God is a tough audience as far as audible response is concerned, but at least you don't have to explain the references. In this collection of prayers, much-loved comedian, broadcaster and radio host Frank Skinner has tried to retain the bare candour of the rehearsal-room improvisation - to show what faith feels like, from the inside - but infused it with all the production values required to make it a passable public entertainment. In it are his convictions, his questions, his fears, his doubts, his elations - all presented in an eavesdropper-friendly form. Hell, Judgement, atheism, money, faith and the X-Men all feature: it's a bit like reading the Bible, except you only get one side of the conversation, and all the jokes are left in.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous
Author: Bill W.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0698176936

A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.

Inside Story

Inside Story
Author: Martin Amis
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593318307

An autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die—from “the Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction” (The Daily Telegraph). “[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction ... Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amis's closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amis's wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps—an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. Other figures competing as Amis's main influencers are his literary fathers—Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin—and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, he winds up surveying the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first—and considers what all of this has taught him about how to live and how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life—and to the people in his life—that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world.