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"With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history -- and sometimes about the modern world too. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with remarkable...
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All souls trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
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English
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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
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Christine Burgin/New Directions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"The Envelope Poems is a small gift-book selection of Emily Dickinson's writings on envelope scraps. A full-color edition, The Envelope Poems presents a selection in facsimile publication of her crucially important, most experimental late work. The Envelope Poems is a selection from a larger collection, previously co-published by New Directions and Christine Burgin: Emily Dickinson's The Gorgeous Nothings, a project created by the visual artist Jen...
6) Illuminated
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August Adams thrillers volume 1
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English
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A man must deciper a centuries-old puzzle encrypted in the illuminations that adorn three rare Gutenberg bibles, a secret that could undermine major religions and change the course of Western civilization
8) The bestiary
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Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Fascinated by animals of all kinds, a young man's obsession sends him on a quest to find a medieval manuscript describing the animals that were not given passage on Noah's Ark
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Publisher Annotation: Afghanistan, 6th century AD. C. Xincheng, the Grand Master, receives a woman who is the first KIU of twenty-eight men and women who will follow what she is about to initiate. At present: Lluvia’s mother urges her to go to the beach house and follow concise instructions to find a box with a manuscript. Spain, 320pp
12) Codex
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English
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An investment banker is sent by his firm to organize a collection of rare books for a mysterious client and realizes that there may be a medieval codex hidden among the volumes that parallels a computer game's addictive virtual reality world
13) The way of kings
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Stormlight archive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
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English
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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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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Revision is a kind of writing, argues William Germano, indeed the only writing that ultimately counts. That's because only revision makes a piece of writing worth the time and attention of readers. With the wit and wisdom that distinguished his now classic guides Getting It Published and From Dissertation to Book, Germano explains how to get your writing up to the level where it matters not just to yourself but to others. Revision goes far beyond...
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Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A Harvard symbologist and a French cryptologist 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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English
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When Henry Cooper and hotel owner Grady Doyle get their hands on the never-before-seen first draft of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, which was stolen from Hemingway's young wife in 1922, they find their hunt for more of the legendary writer's lost works becoming a deadly adventure.
19) 12.21: a novel
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English
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Two weeks before December 21, 2012, a Los Angeles doctor gets a call about an urgent case, and a Guatemalan American researcher has an unwelcome visitor from the black market antiquities trade who hands her a priceless codex. Will civilization suffer the same fate as the ancient Mayans?
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