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Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
En el corazón de la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford, la apasionada historiadora Diana Bishop se topa en medio de sus investigaciones con el manuscrito identificado como Ashmole 782. Descendiente de un antiguo linaje de brujas, Diana intuye que el manuscrito está relacionado de alguna manera con la magia, pero no quiere tener nada que ver con la brujería. Y después de tomar algunas notas sobre sus curiosos dibujos, lo devuelve sin perder más tiempo...
Author
Publisher
Lil' Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Introduce your little ones to the celebratory milestone of graduation and how one's family will always support dreams and goals, in both English and Spanish! Inspired by Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts, particularly the Aztec codices, this almost-textless hardcover celebrates the perseverance it takes to graduate and how family will always be there to see you from the beginning to the end--walking across the stage." -- Amazon.
63) Archangel
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A British historian, finished with a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives, is preparing to leave Russia for good, but a surprise visit from a former Soviet officer suddenly changes his mind. The officer reveals a deadly secret, one which promises to uncover Russia's most closely guarded conspiracy.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In an English cathedral city, passionate bibliophile Author Prescott works to uncover a long-lost secret about the cathedral's past, and its connection to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table ..."--
At the University of Barchester, where Arthur Prescott works as an English professor, his one respite is his time spent nestled in the Barchester Cathedral library, nurturing his secret obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2010, c2004
Language
English
Description
Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The three chapters left on O'Brian's desk at the time of his death are presented here both in printed version-including...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train...
Publisher
Historicana and The Arthur Szyk Society
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ominous threats filled the years around World War II - Nazism, the escalating plight of European Jews, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and racism. Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), the great 20th-century 'activist in art,' confronted the turbulent, hate-filled period with forceful artistic depictions caricaturing Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito as the evil architects of their regimes' destructive and inhumane policies. 'Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art' explores...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society. What would you give up to achieve your dream? When J.P. Morgan hired Belle da Costa Greene in 1905 to organize his rare book and manuscript collection, she had only her personality and a few years of experience to recommend her. Ten years later, she had shaped the famous Pierpont Morgan Library collection and was a celebrity in New York and the art...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A young American academic is summoned to Ireland to claim the contents of her grandfather's safe deposit box, in which she finds a manuscript by Ian Fleming. In a race against time, Amy must unlock the manuscript's secrets and outwit unknown assailants who will do anything to bury the truth.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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.
76) House of leaves
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane, where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility - until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story: one of creature...
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