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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The much-acclaimed BookTok sensation, Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six--now newly revised and edited with additional content. The tag #theatlassix has millions of views on TikTok. A dark academic debut fantasy with an established cult following that reads like THE SECRET HISTORY meets THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY. The first in an explosive trilogy The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Set in the 23rd century, "The glass bead game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master...
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 8
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.
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Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the fourth novel in the Babylon Rising series, biblical archaeologist Michael Murphy stumbles upon clues to an ancient evil as he follows a trail to the long-lost temple of Dagon, the deadly Philistine deity that is half-human and half-fish.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchments-a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican Library in the 1500s, the letter was assumed to be lost forever. Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm his findings with several other experts. But he also confides in a family friend his suspicion that someone he once trusted wants to sell the parchment and cash in. Within...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he's real, and second, because she's a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she's beguiled and makes a wish that surprises...
Author
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Prickly Virginia Lawrence, a preeminent scholar of Vineyard history, is also a notorious recluse. Therefore, the island is abuzz when Priscilla manages to book a library lecture with the local eccentric. However, on the evening of the event, Virginia is a no-show and nowhere to be found, and the valuable museum artifacts in her possession are now missing as well. As Priscilla delves into the mystery of Virginia's ill-timed disappearance, a seemingly...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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"Maimonides lived in tumultuous times, at the peak of the Reconquista in Spain and the Crusades in Palestine. His monumental compendium of Jewish law, the Mishneh Tarah, became a basis of all subsequent Jewish legal codes and brought him recognition as one of the foremost lawgivers. In Egypt, his training as a physician earned him a place in the entourage of the great Sultan Saladin, and he wrote medical works in Arabic that were translated into Hebrew...
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Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Cada década, tan solo los seis magos con más talento son seleccionados para su iniciación. Y estos son los escogidos para la última ronda: Libby Rhodes y Nico de Varona, mitades involuntarias de un todo insondable, que ejercen un sorprendente control sobre todo elemento del plano físico. Reina Mori, naturalista, capaz de intuir el lenguaje de la vida misma. Parisa Kamali, una telépata que puede atravesar las profundidades del subconsciente y...
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Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
Biblical scholar Michael Murphy searches for the Lost Temple of Dagon and the dark secrets of the strange god once worshipped by the ancient Philistines. He explores one of the most carefully guarded Biblical prophecies, a prophecy of false miracles and false messiahs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Babylon Rising introduces a terrific new hero for our time. Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy, but not the sedate and tweedy kind. Murphy is a field archaeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery is his most amazing--but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavation and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of the greatest evil. For...
16) My kind of earl
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jane Pickerington never intended to start a brawl in a brothel. She only wanted to research her book. Yet when her simple study of scoundrels goes awry, she finds herself coming to the rescue of a dark, enigmatic stranger... who turns out to be far more than an average rake out for a night of pleasure. He's positively wild! Only the most feral and cunning could have survived foundling homes and work houses. Orphaned as an infant, Raven never had...
Author
Series
Cavanaughs volume 3
Publisher
Savdek Management Proprietary Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Stacie--Lady Eustacia Cavanaugh--is adamant marriage is not for her. Haunted by her parents' unhappy union, Stacie believes that, for her, marriage is an unacceptable risk. Wealthy and well-born, she needs for nothing, and with marriage off the table, to give her life purpose, she embarks on a plan to further the careers of emerging local musicians by introducing them to the ton via a series of musical evenings. Yet despite her noble status, Stacie...
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Language
English
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Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless...
19) The Sherlockian
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of a young American anti-apartheid activist and Fulbright scholar who was murdered by black residents of Cape Town, who ultimately were granted amnesty and worked with the woman's parents to create an educational foundation for justice.
The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa: The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, 1993, during the final, fiery days of apartheid...
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