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Rarities Unlimited volume 1
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The troubling message from Serena Charters's late grandmother appears in a package containing four pages of a centuries-old illuminated manuscript — a strange inheritance that hides many secrets...and has already cost many lives. Seeking answers, Serena turns to Erik North of Rarities Unlimited, a reclusive manuscript appraiser with a passion for the past. Without warning, they are thrust together into the center of a lethal firestorm that
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Robert Langdon novels volume 2
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
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Clarenceux trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
459 p. cm.
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Critically acclaimed and award-winning, but hardly bestselling-author Georgina Jackson can't get past the first chapter of her second book. When she receives an urgent email from her agent, Georgina is certain it's bad news. Shockingly, she's offered a commission to complete a newly discovered manuscript by a major nineteenth-century author. Skeptical at first about her ability to complete the manuscript, Georgina is horrified to know that the author...
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All souls trilogy volume 1
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Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her.
10) My name is Red
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xv, 417 p. : map ; 24 cm.
11) The way of kings
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Stormlight archive volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
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Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
217 pages
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When Gemma Doyle, owner of Cape Cod's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium, finds a rare and potentially valuable magazine containing the first Sherlock Homes story hidden in her shop, she and her friend, Jayne, set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body.
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 18 cm.
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Jules and her team struggle to make chocolate showpieces and an Elizabethan feast for the gala opening of a museum exhibit featuring a lost Shakespeare manuscript, but before the manuscript can be unveiled it goes missing and the security guard assigned to protect it is murdered.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 22 cm
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"Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for othersin an age where we are so often lost in our own minds"--
16) The Lucifer code
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Series
Thomas Lourds novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
368 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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Thomas Lourds ventures to Istanbul University in Turkey to examine artifacts never before seen by Western scholars. he's barely off the plane before he's kidnapped by ruthless people who leave a string of dead bodies in their wake. They want Lourds to translate coded writings that they hope will lead them to a lost scroll authored by John of Patmos--the same John who wrote the Book of Revelation in the Bible.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
307 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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A tale of self-discovery follows the experiences of a girl who is sent to live in a priory in the wake of a devastating loss, where she develops unexpected talents, reconnects with a friend, and witnesses the approach of the Great Plague.
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In medieval Ireland, Theophane's boredom with his duties as a scribe distracts the other monks, but when he is sent to the kitchens he discovers that he can make inks of many colors from plants, allowing the others to illustrate their work. Includes facts about the history of monasteries, scriptoriums, and illuminated manuscripts.
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 25 cm
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As the 19th century draws to an end, two bookaneers are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete to steal Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever.
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Sean Reilly thrillers volume 2
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To rescue kidnapped Tess Chaykin, FBI agent Sean Reilly infiltrates the Pope's massive Vatican Secret Archives of the Inquisition in search of a document known as the Fondo Templari, a secret history of the infamous Templars.
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