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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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 library, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 289 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can’t be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn’s friend and former employer. On the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration, Brooklyn finds her mentor lying in a pool of his own blood. With his final breath Abraham leaves Brooklyn with a cryptic message, “Remember...
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright returns to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class, but the program's director is a horrendous host. After the woman is murdered, Brooklyn is bound and determined to investigate -- even as the killer tries to close the book on her for good.
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend, Robin, to appraise and restore, Brooklyn Wainwright anticipates both recreating a beautiful book and spicing up her love life. But then Robin's apartment is ransacked, and the great guy she recently met is murdered in her bed. Now Robin is the #1 suspect. Obviously, exploring the Kama Sutra's bliss will have to wait until after Brooklyn finds the killer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Murder is easy -- on paper. Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is attending the world-renowned Book Fair when her ex Kyle shows up with a bombshell. He has an original copy of a scandalous text that could change history -- and humiliate the beloved British monarchy. When Kyle turns up dead, the police are convinced Brooklyn's the culprit. But with an entire convention of suspects, Brooklyn's conducting her own investigation to find out if...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Covington Library is hosting an exhibit featuring John James Audubon's Birds of America. During the gala celebrating the book, Brooklyn is approached by Jared Mulrooney, the president of the National Birdwatchers Society, who urgently needs Brooklyn's skilled hands to repair a less high-profile book of Audubon drawings that's fallen victim to spilled wine. But everything runs afoul when Mulrooney is later discovered dead. Rumors fly about a motive...
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Excited to explore the secrets of wine country, Brooklyn attends an excavation of the caves hidden deep under her parents' commune -- and the findings are explosive. A room is unearthed, and it contains a treasure trove of artwork, rare books, a chest of jewelry...and a perfectly mummified body. A closer examination of the murdered man's possessions reveals a valuable first edition of Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth. Hidden in the...
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn's chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast seems a fairy tale come true -- until she realizes the book last belonged to an old friend of hers. Ten years ago, Max Adams fell in love with a stunning beauty, Emily, and gave her the copy of Beauty and the Beast as a symbol of their love. Soon afterward, he died in a car crash, and Brooklyn has always suspected his possessive ex-girlfriend and her jealous beau. Now she decided...
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian/Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be appearing on the hit TV show, This Old Attic as a rare-book expert. Her first subject is a very valuable first-edition copy of The Secret Garden. Its owner, Vera, is eager to have Brooklyn recondition it for resale. But a furious man viciously accosts Brooklyn, claiming that Vera found the first edition at his garage sale, and he wants it back -- or else. Randolph Rayburn, the handsome host of This Old Attic,...
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Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rare books and antiquities expert Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be invited to the fiftieth birthday party of her neighbor Suzie's aunt Grace. A retired founder of a major video game corporation, Grace is a larger-than-life character who's turned her Lake Tahoe mansion into a fun house, full of everything from pinball machines and giant props to secret passageways and trap doors. Brooklyn is most excited to catalog Grace's extensive collection...
Author
Series
Bibliophile mystery volume 17
Language
English
Formats
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"In the middle of a wonderful Christmas holiday in Dharma, Brooklyn and Derek receive a frantic phone call from their dear friend Claire in Loch Ness, Scotland: the laird of the castle, Cameron MacKinnon, has just proposed to her. They plan to be married on New Year's Day, and they want Derek and Brooklyn to be their witnesses. And while they're visiting, Claire hopes that Brooklyn will be able to solve a little mystery that's occurred in the castle...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn's oh-so-proper future in-laws are traveling from England to meet her, and if that's not enough to set her on edge, rumors abound that the charming Courtyard shops across the street may be replaced by high-rise apartments. Their trendy neighborhood will be ruined unless Brooklyn and her fiance, Derek Stone, can persuade the shopkeepers not to sell. But with a rare edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland causing bad blood at the Brothers...
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Language
English
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"San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is on the case when a rare edition of Rebecca leads to murder in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series. Brooklyn and her hunky husband, security expert Derek Stone, have just returned from a delightful trip to Dharma, where the construction of their new home away from home is well underway, when a little black book arrives in the mail. The book...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn has it all covered. She's triple-checked her wedding to-do list, and everything is on track for the upcoming ceremony with the love of her life, security expert Derek Stone. Not everyone has been as lucky in love as Brooklyn. Her old college roommates Heather and Sara lost touch twelve years ago when Sara stole Heather's boyfriend. Brooklyn was caught in the middle and hasn't seen her former besties since their falling-out. When they both...
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It’s a recipe for disaster when bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright is asked to restore an antique cookbook…. Brooklyn has always been a little obsessed with food, but it was her sister Savannah who became a chef, graduating from the prestigious Cordon Bleu school in Paris. She and her classmates all went on to successful careers, but none of them achieved culinary superstardom like Savannah’s ex-boyfriend Baxter Cromwell. When Baxter invites the...
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