Three days. A grand prize. Unlikely players. Dan is an average eighteen-year-old nerd with an irrational fear of making phone calls and a preference for spending his evenings playing tabletop games with his mom. When a friend asks for help in a city-wide scavenger hunt, Dan lets his trusted dice decide his fate. To his dismay, the roll launches him into a whirlwind adventure he's definitely not prepared for. But with a fifty-thousand-euro prize that could pay for his mother’s surgery, it's a risk worth taking. From the crypts of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, through a freezing maze at Schönbrunn Palace, to the grand Viennese ball at the National Opera, Dan and his team scour Vienna for clues hidden in historical landmarks, uncovering the city's mysteries along with each other's secrets. But when Dan faces his worst fears, can he rise to the challenge and win the contest before time runs out? Let the Hunt begin. Filled with witty banter, nerdy references, and unexpected twists, this thrilling coming of age adventure tackles themes of mental health, self-discovery, and friendship, while showing that sometimes the most memorable moments in life happen when you let go and let the dice roll. Perfect for fans of John Green and Alice Oseman.

Viennawalks by J. Sydney Jones is the classic walking guidebook of the Austrian capital from the Henry Holt Walks Series. It includes four intimate walking tours of Vienna's most historic and enchanting neighborhoods, with maps, photos, and a selected list of restaurants and shops.

Known as much for the emotional outbursts and violence of its fans as for its own stars, soccer (or football, as it is known outside the United States) is a global game. Its international controlling body, FIFA, boasts more members than the United Nations. Bill Murray traces the growth of what during pre-industrial times was called "the simplest game" through its codification in the nineteenth century to the 1994 World Cup, held for the first time in the United States. Murray weaves the sport's growth into the culture and politics of the countries where it has been taken up, analyzing its reputation as a game that has seen more riots and on-field brawls than all other types of football combined. He vividly illustrates how soccer has become the world's most popular sport, one that has resisted the interference of politicians, dictators, and profiteers and - more recently - the demands of television, through which it has spread to virtually every corner of the globe. The World's Game will be entertaining and enlightening to anyone from the most avid, knowledgeable fan to those who merely hope to learn a little about the sport.

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the W. E. B. Griffin novels comes a rollicking story of love, war, and adventure. As the author of the electrifying W. E. B. Griffin novels of the military, police, and spies and counterspies, William E. Butterworth III has been delighting readers for decades—but he has a special treat for them now. At the tender age of sixteen, Philip W. Williams III is expelled from boarding school for committing a prank, and on the train home wonders where his life will take him now. It never enters his mind that he will become a special agent of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in postwar Germany, play a key role in the defection of a Soviet officer and then work for the CIA, marry a ferocious Austrian ballet dancer, become a renowned bestselling novelist, and meet the love of his life on a hunting trip. Yet all of this, and much more, awaits him, in a raucous series of adventures that will have readers laughing, cheering, and propulsively turning the pages to discover what happens next.

This book provides everything you need to know to start playing the Vienna as White or Black. Through the use of model games for both sides, the author provides a thorough grounding in the key ideas, so that readers can quickly and confidently start ot use the Vienna in their own games.