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1) Illuminated
Author
Series
August Adams thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An archeobibliologist turned rare book scout must decipher the beautiful illuminations found on the pages of a rare Gutenberg Bible. If he doesn't, his eight-year-old son and ex-wife (who is also an archeobibliologist working at the Library of Congress) will die.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old binding, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
3) Malice House
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deciding to illustrate a disturbing, secret handwritten manuscript from her late Pulitzer Prize-winning father, aspiring artist Haven Marbury is plunged into a nightmarish world when a monstrous creature appears, forcing her to uncover dark, otherworldly family secrets to rewrite everything she thought she knew about herself.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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 2,000-year...
Author
Series
Rarities Unlimited volume 1
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[2001]
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 rages...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A collection of prophecies from before the time of Christ gives a female scientist the chance to save the world in this captivating thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of The Eight In the last week of Jesus's life, the Emperor Augustus orders the purge of all prophecies that question his divine power. Thus, in the crater of a dormant volcano, the books of the Sibylline oracle are sealed-lost to the world until the nineteenth...
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"When aspiring writer Michael Warner inherits his grandfather's venerable Charleston estate, he settles in to write his first novel. But within the confines of the stately home, he discovers an unpublished manuscript that his grandfather, a literary giant whose novels sold in the millions, had kept hidden from everyone -- but clearly intended Michael to find. As he delves deeper into the exciting tale about spies and sabotage, Michael realizes this...
10) Calligraphy alphabets for beginners: [the easy way to learn lettering and illumination techniques]
Author
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, 2000.
Language
English
Description
Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla's death. Gilbert is offered a position in New York and he convinces Anne to go with him. But big city life isn't what they expected. After her script is stolen, they travel from New York to the war effort in Europe and they eventually return to Prince Edward Island.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Biblical scholar Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages, he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. For almost 1500 years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were influenced by the cultural, theological and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick, a priceless manuscript could be one woman's key to finding her missing grandmother--and to her own second chance. It's not just Ellora Lockwood's home that's being emptied as she prepares to sell--her heart seems to be empty too. Since the mysterious disappearance of her beloved Grandma June and separating from her husband, Alex, Ellora has felt adrift. Then comes an invitation from...
14) Fire the depths
Author
Series
Max Tilt series volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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 mother is sick, his father is out of work, and his home is about to be foreclosed on. But when Max and his cousin Alex discover that Verne's last work reveals everything he wrote was fact, not fiction,...
15) Harvard Yard
Author
Series
Peter Fallon novels volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In 1942, London. Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. When a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay. Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written by Nancy Mitford. For one woman desperately in need of...
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 1
Publisher
Tor Fantasy
Pub. Date
2010.
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
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After Ingrid Erikson jeopardizes her career, she fears her future will remain irrevocably broken. But when the man who shattered her belief in happily-ever-afters offers her a sealed envelope from her late best friend, Ingrid is sent on a hunt for a hidden manuscript and must confront her past before she can find the healing she's been searching for"--
19) The codex
Author
Language
English
Description
"Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing, along with his entire collection, from his mansion in New Mexico. At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger: As a final challenge to his three sons,...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
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