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A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key. A simple version of such a cipher would use a specific book as the key, and would replace each word of the plaintext by a number that gives the position where that word occurs in that book.
Critical reception for Sway has been predominantly positive, [4] [5] and the book has received praise from the Richmond Times Dispatch. [6] Publishers Weekly and the School Library Journal both gave favorable reviews, [7] and the School Library Journal wrote that the work was an "engaging story that will stay with readers long past the final page."
This is how the printer's key may appear in the first print run of a book. In this common example numbers are removed with subsequent printings, so if "1" is seen then the book is the first printing of that edition. If it is the second printing then the "1" is removed, meaning that the lowest number seen will be "2". [3]
In the Nintendo DS game Another Code, a key is found inside a hollow book. In the PC and NES game Shadowgate , a key is found in a hollowed out book. The player must learn to open the book without removing it, because by moving the book, a switch is set off that drops the player into a pit.
He was the author of several novels, a memoir, song lyrics, children's books, plays, countless songs and more than 20 books. "The Weary Blues" takes place at an old Harlem bar on Lenox Avenue. There is a piano player playing the blues. As he plays, the speaker observes his body movement and the tone of his voice.
The Client is a 1993 legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham.It is Grisham's fourth novel and follows the story of an 11-year-old boy, Mark Sway, who becomes entangled in a mob-related legal case after witnessing the suicide of a lawyer who knows the location of a murdered U.S. senator’s body.
Monograph – a book on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, usually by a single author; Networked book or Open book – a book that is written, edited, and read in a networked environment (such as Wikipedia) Novelization – a book that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, comic strip or ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...