Wednesday, February 13, 2019

You Can Tell a Book by Its Cover, Not

So, after a bad week, I have finally gotten to the final week of this puzzle series.  As mentioned previously, the theme for this week is books.  Unlike last year's puzzle (click here to check it out), this time around I will be focusing on some of last year's  biggest titles.  Furthermore, I have increased the total number of clues, partially due to the fact that I am a book store owner (at least for the next few weeks).  There's also the shear amount of possible title to go through.  During the average week, only three to five movies are opened in wider release, eight to ten new series debut across all platforms, and twenty to twenty-five major artists have new albums, with an average of eight to twelve singles debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.  In contrast, over forty new hardcover books are published each week, fiction and nonfiction.  Add in children's titles, and the numbers increase.  If you include original paperback books, then the totals skyrocket.  New books clearly outpace other media.  Therefore, more clues.  For example, if the clue was Pre-teen Educational Center:  Created for the Performance of Heavy Metal Music, your answer would be Middle School:  Born to Rock, the latest children's title by James Patterson with Chris Tibbets (due out Monday, February 18).  See how many you can identify.  It's a mix of fiction and non-fiction,with a few children's books.  (Hint:  I've read five of them, and reviewed them on the Booknotes Facebook page.). Answers appear at the bottom of the page.


  1. Devoid of Light yet from the Absence of Life
  2. Ferrous Auric Metal
  3. Informed about through Tutoring
  4. Non-daylight Passings
  5. Unintentional Victorious Ones
  6. Offspring Comprised from Plasmic Fluids/Osseous Materials
  7. Bramble Fruit Pastry Originally from Vienna Homicide
  8. Fractured Reflective Glass Surface
  9. Subterranean Location for Petrified Remains
  10. Said Person's Ocular Organs Are Trained towards That One
  11. Contorted Predator's Mark
  12. One Particular Misaligned Ascender Appliance
  13. One Greater Loyalty towards Some Value
  14. Difficult Problems of Brother of Artemis:  Puzzling Diverting Pathways Aflame
  15. Daylight Period of Minor Changes
  16. One Not of the Rest of Us
  17. Disruption of Fluid Motility
  18. Small Home near Large Expanse of Salt Water
  19. That Adult Female as Opposed to This One
  20. Group Dedicated to Nefarious Purposes, Specifically Calcified Human Remains
  21. Herpetological Similarity of the Legless Variety
  22. Tenebrous Manifestations the Perambulate
  23. Utter Disgust
  24. Unlit Oceanic Movements Increasing
  25. Chronological Dimension's Newly Installed Being
  26. Plasma Dedicated Rite
  27. Gloomy Religiously Special Twilight Period
  28. Journal Entries from One Young Weakling: Period of Snow Evaporation or Emotional Release
  29. Each Particular Inhalation
  30. Atlas Entry for Sunlit Hours
  31. Period of Defining Moments
  32. Left Exposed to the Elements
  33. Process of Changing to Present Condition
  34. Energetic Expression of Heat with Liquid Associated with Life
  35. Obverse Side of a Coin Equates to That Person's Victory
  36. Controller for That Male's Future
  37. Incredibly Vast Pathway with Redemptive Quality as Destination
  38. Worldwide in Scope

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ANSWERS
  1. Dark in Death by J. D. Robb
  2. Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
  3. Educated by Tara Westover
  4. Night Moves by Jonathan Kellerman
  5. Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel
  6. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
  7. Raspberry Danish Murder by Joanne Fluke
  8. Shattered Mirror by Iris Johansen
  9. Cave of Bones by Anne Hillerman
  10. I've Got My Eyes on You by Mary Higgins Clark
  11. Twisted Prey by John Sanford
  12. The Crooked Staircase by Dean Koontz
  13. A Higher Loyalty by James Commey
  14. The Trials of Apollo:  The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan
  15. Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
  16. The Outsider by Stephen King
  17. Turbulence by Stuart Woods
  18. Cottage by the Sea by Debbie Macomber
  19. The Other Woman by Daniel Silva
  20. A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs
  21. Serpentine by Laurel K. Hamilton
  22. Walking Shadows by Faye Kellerman
  23. Contempt by Ken Starr
  24. Dark Tide Rising by Anne Perry
  25. Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness
  26. Blood Communion by Anne Rice
  27. Dark Sacred Night by Micheal Connelly
  28. Diary of a Wimpy Kid:  The Meltdown by Jeff Kinney
  29. Every Breathe by Nicholas Sparks
  30. A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
  31. The Reckoning by John Grisham
  32. Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
  33. Becoming by Michelle Obama
  34. Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin
  35. Heads You Win by Jeffrey Archer
  36. Master of His Fate by Barbara Taylor Bradford
  37. Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci
  38. Pandemic by Robin Cook

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