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Author
Series
All souls trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Discovering a magical manuscript in Oxford's library, scholar Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage, inadvertently unleashes a fantastical underworld of daemons, witches, and vampires whose activities center around an enchanted treasure.
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Rarities Unlimited volume 1
Language
English
Description
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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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 632 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history--and about the modern world, too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 401 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The discovery made front-page news around the world - if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the celibate, all-male priesthood, but the entire the 2,000-year...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cathy Bonidan's The Lost Manuscript is a charming epistolary novel about the love of books and magical ability they have to bring people together. Sometimes a book has the power to change your life... When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in...
Author
Series
Bestseller) volume 1162/3
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
651 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A codex written in a strange alphabet, called the Rossignoli Codex, is stolen from the National Library of France, in Paris, and Tirso and Agent Lacombe are on the case. Tirso discovers that the thieves' "modus operandi" is suspiciously similar to the methods used by the National Searchers Corps, and that the codex is the manuscript Tirso found when he was looking for King Solomon's Table. This time, it is not only the survival of the Searchers Corps...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As November's autumnal hues fall over the Shakespearean hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, Jules and her team at Torte are putting the finishing touches on an authentic Elizabethan feast for the opening gala of a new museum exhibit at Southern Oregon University. The unveiling of the Bard's lost manuscript, Double Falsehood, will be celebrated with silky chocolate showpieces, lardy cakes, frangipane tarts, and jellies with chestnut cream. But on the big evening,...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Fully revised and updated edition.
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of the four Gospels. This new official guide, by the former Keeper of Manuscripts at Trinity College Library, Dublin, provides fascinating insights inot the Book of Kells, revealing the astounding detail and richness of one of the greatest works of medieval art. The illustrations in the guide include reproductions of complete pages, and details that allow one to marvel...
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxiv, 312 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Joseph Conrad once said of his friend Henry James, As is meet for a man of his descent and tradition, Mr. James is the historian of fine consciences. As it turns out, James was also incredibly gifted at writing exceptional ghost stories. This collection including, The Beast in the Jungle and The Jolly Corner, features James's finest supernatural tales, along with criticism, a discussion of the legacies of James's writing, and provocative study questions....
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an examination of the papyrus plant, looking at the important role it played in ancient Egyptian culture as a source of paper, as well as its unique properties that could help combat ecological and social problems in the modern world.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how ancient scribes erroneously or deliberately changed New Testament stories in the face of period cultural, theological, and political disputes, explaining how numerous Christian beliefs are based on altered texts.
Author
Series
R. J. MacCready novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready journeys to post-World War II Tibet to search for a legendary creature that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future.
16) The riddle
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In order for reporter Mike Sullivan to stop a cunning killer, he must first solve a murder hidden within a newly discovered Charles Dickens manuscript.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 46 min., 46 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Lindisfarne gospels is the greatest of Anglo-Saxon treasures and one of the world's great works of art. It is a volume of the four Gospels, in Latin, created in the early eighth century, with gloriously, riotously decorated illuminations. Drawing on significant new research, The world of the Lindisfarne gospels takes a close look at this extraordinary manuscript and the historical and religious contexts in which it was created. The world of the...
18) Fire the depths
Author
Series
Max Tilt volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Max Tilt discovers an unpublished manuscript by Jules Verne and sets out to find the treasure it describes. But Max and his friend Alex aren't the only ones who know about the treasure...
When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt happens upon his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he doesn't realize that he's found the answers to all his problems. And Max has a lot of problems--his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Berlin, September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and anti-Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot, charting his relationship with his agent, friend, and sometimes lover, an Irishman named Frank Pike. In De Groot's narrative, Pike is a charismatic IRA fighter sprung from prison...
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
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