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2) All clear
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Oxford time travel novels volume 5
Language
English
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When three Oxford historians become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler's bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians' supervisor and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle to find them.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents...
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English
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"The beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains. Brett, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery in Venice, lives with her lover, Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. With his open mind and good sense, Brunetti finds himself more fazed by Flavia's...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Who stole one of Egypt's most priceless treasures? That is the question that haunts the authorities after a distinguished British gentleman with an upper-crust accent cons his way past a security guard and escapes into the desert carrying a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic. But the Egyptian authorities and Interpol believe they know the identity of the culprit. The brazen crime bears all the earmarks of the work of one "Sir John Smythe,"...
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Series
Nora Kelly novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bestselling authors Preston and Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in a thrilling blend of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense. For as the real truth of what happened--one that is far more shocking and bizarre than mere cannibalism--those ancient horrors lead to present-day violence on a grand scale.and scale.
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Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 7
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
399 pages ;
Language
English
Description
Rules are meant to be broken, aren't they?
'I've done some stupid things in my time. I've been reckless. I've broken a few rules. But never before have I ruined so many lives or left such a trail of destruction behind me.'
Max has never been one for rules. They tend to happen to other people.
But this time she's gone too far. And everyone at St Mary's is paying the price.
With the History Department disintegrating around her and grounded until...
10) Still life
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English
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"Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"An aging art scholar and a visiting student, haunting echoes of France's colonialist past, and a delicious navarin of lamb--Bruno is back, and his latest case leads him from the Renaissance to the French Resistance and beyond by way of a corpse at the bottom of a well"--
12) The lost key
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Series
Brit in the FBI volume 2
Language
English
Description
Freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond is barely out of his Quantico training when he and his partner, Mike Caine, are called to investigate a stabbing on Wall Street. Their investigation, however, yields more questions than answers. It quickly becomes clear that the victim, John Pearce, was more than the naval historian and antiquities dealer he appeared to be. What Drummond doesn't know is that buying and selling rare books was Pearce's cover,...
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Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 8
Publisher
Headlinr Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
433 pages ;
Language
English
Description
Because, my dear Max, you dance on the edge of darkness ... and I don't think it would take very much for you to dance my way.
When an old enemy appears out of nowhere with an astonishing proposition for Max - a proposition that could change everything Max is tempted. Very tempted.
With an end to an old conflict finally in sight, it looks as if St Mary's problems are over with. Can they all now live happily ever after?
As everything hangs in the...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive — a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years — reluctantly returns to his family’s Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal — of ardor for his high school love, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting. In Water Baby, Harrison...
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Seasonal volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive,...
16) The Sherlockian
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English
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In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning -- crowds sported black armbands in grief -- and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901, just as abruptly as Conan Doyle had "murdered" Holmes in "The Final Problem," he resurrected...
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Series
All souls trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
561 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches — with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing...
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Series
Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 10
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 463 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"You can't change History. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences. Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands. Especially when she's had a brilliant idea. Yes, it will mean breaking a few rules, but--as Max always says--they're not her rules. Seconded to the Time Police to join in the hunt for the renegade Clive Ronan, Max is a long way from St Mary's. But life in the future does have its plus points--although not for...
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Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 9
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
467 pages ;
Language
English
Description
They say you shouldn't push your luck. Max gives her own luck a massive shove every day - and it's only a matter of time until luck pushes back...
January 1536 - the day of Henry VIII's infamous jousting accident. Historians from St Mary's are there in force, recording and documenting. And, arguing - obviously.
A chance meeting between Max and the Time Police leads to a plan of action. And, it's one that will have very serious consequences - especially...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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