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I'll be posting Patrick Jordan's monthly book calendar here. If you know of other books coming out, fill us in. Also, if you really like a book and highly recommend it, let us know about it here.

[Thomps2525]

Are we allowed to mention a website if the mention constitutes free advertising? Oh, what the heck---it's Christmastime. I'll take a chance. Barnes & Noble is offering 52 different crossword puzzle books. They're "buy two, get one free" and there is no shipping charge on orders of at least $25. No dates are shown but I'm guessing this sale is good only through Christmas.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/books-sale-book-deals/379003624/

[Thomps2525]

I've often commented on the clever themes and clever clues in Merl Reagle's Sunday Crosswords which appear in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. Since it's called a "Sunday Crossword," it makes perfect sense that it would appear on Sunday, right? Anyway, his puzzles have been released in several volumes of books titled---of course---Sunday Crosswords. One hundred twenty of those puzzles have been repackaged in two new books titled The Best Of Sunday Crosswords., Volume 1 was released on October 1, 2014, and Volume 2 came out on April 1, 2015.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Merl-Reagles-Sunday-Crosswords/dp/0989782514/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1429834673&sr=8-14&keywords=crossword+books

[Thomps2525]

Four months after commenting on two books of Merl Reagle's Sunday crosswords, I now have to report the sad news that Reagle died August 22, two days after being diagnosed with acute pancreatitis and slipping into a coma. He was 65. Another collection of his puzzles, Merl Reagle's 100th Anniversary Crossword Book, was published in 2013, a hundred years after the first crossword puzzle appeared in the New York World:

http://www.amazon.com/Merl-Reagles-100th-Anniversary-Crossword/dp/0989782506