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An award-winning sportswriter takes you inside a year with the nation’s top high school chess team. With strict admission standards and a progressive curriculum, Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New York’s public-education success stories, serving a diverse neighborhood of immigrants and minorities and ranking among the nation’s best high schools. At Murrow, there are no sports teams, and the closest thing to jocks are found on the school’s powerhouse chess team, which annually competes for the national championship. In The Kings of New York sportswriter Michael Weinreb follows the members of the Murrow chess team through an entire season, from cash games in Washington Square Park to city and state tournaments to the SuperNationals in Nashville, where this eclectic bunch competes against private schoolers and suburbanites. Along the way, Weinreb brings to life a number of colorful characters: the Yale-educated calculus teacher (and former semipro hockey player) who guides the savants while struggling to find funding for his team; an aspiring rapper and tournament hustler who plays with cutthroat instinct; the team’s lone girl, a shy Ukrainian immigrant; the Puerto Rican teen from the rough neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant who plays an ingenious opening gambit named the Orangutan; and the Lithuanian immigrant and team star whose chess rating is climbing toward grandmaster status. In the bestselling tradition of such books as Word Freak and Friday Night Lights, The Kings of New York is a riveting look inside the world of competitive chess and an inspiring profile of young genius. more...

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The latest in Lynette Long's popular series of fun activity books covering essential math skills for kids aged 8-12 that covers everything kids aged 8-12 need to know to master measurement. more...

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The world's first e-book crossword puzzle dictionary! The most comprehensive, authoritative, useful crossword dictionary ever published. Compiled by crossword professionals with over thirty years of combined experience, The Million Word Crossword Dictionary not only doubles the number of answers previously available, but also bases each answer on actual clues and language from America's most popular crosswords. With more than 1,000,000 answers, this volume contains more than twice as many answers as any other crossword dictionary. More important, it is the first crossword dictionary ever to comprehensively cover the clues and answers that actually appear in today's most popular crosswords, including contemporary slang, phrases, and brand names. Featuring an introduction by New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, The Million Word Crossword Dictionary makes every other crossword dictionary obsolete. more...

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Chris Moneymaker was just a regular guy working as an accountant in Tennessee, who enjoyed playing online poker and winning. On a fluke he decided to enter the World Series of Poker, paid the $40 application fee, and, with only three years’ experience playing the game, won it all: $2.5 million. Merging Chris’ amazing story with actual tools to help the average joe become a poker star, this is the must-have poker book for online dreamers and budding young amateurs alike. more...

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