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2) Codex
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English
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When hotshot young investment banker Edward Wozny is called to the home of an important and mysterious client, the last thing he expects is to be ordered to uncrate and organize a library of rare books. Edward's indignation turns to curiosity when he learns that among the volumes there may be hidden a unique medieval codex, a priceless treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of Margaret Napier, a passionate...
Author
Series
Celestine prophecy volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The journey of a man in Peru as he joins in the search for the 9th insight, part of a manuscript reported to hold the key to life on Earth, as well as an explanation of how man is finally ready to attain his fullest potential, both spiritually and emotionally.
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English
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"Berlin, September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and anti-Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot, charting his relationship with his agent, friend, and sometimes lover, an Irishman named Frank Pike. In De Groot's narrative, Pike is a charismatic IRA fighter sprung from prison...
5) Illuminated
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Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
August Adams has failed his family before. He's sacrificed relationships in pursuit of adventure, fame, and money. Now the very lives of those he loves depend on his ability to decipher a centuries-old puzzle encrypted in the colorful hand-painted illuminations that adorn three rare Gutenberg Bibles. It's a secret that could yield unimaginable wealth, undermine two major religions, and change the course of Western civilization. Two ruthless, ancient...
Author
Series
All souls trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
Physical Desc
579 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
xiv, 513 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation is a landmark work that brings to life the long-inaccessible ancient scrolls of Qumran. Three distinguished translators at the forefront of modern scrolls scholarship reveal the rich tapestry of writings known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is the most comprehensive translation ever compiled for the general reader in any language. Translated into modern-day English by Michael Wise, Martin Abegg Jr. and Edward...
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Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
viii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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When world-class biblical scholar Bart 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. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account...
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Series
Robert Langdon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both...
11) Sacred treason
Author
Series
Clarenceux trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
459 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, 1563. England is a troubled nation. Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth spring up all over the country. The herald William Harley -- known to everyone as Clarenceux -- receives a book from his friend and fellow Catholic, Henry Machyn. But Machyn is in fear of his life... What secret can the book hold? And then Clarenceux is visited by the State in the form of Francis Walsingham and his ruthless enforcers, who will stop at nothing...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Physical Desc
422 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The minute I saw the letter, I knew it was hers. There was no mistaking it: the salutation, the tiny, precise handwriting, the date, the content itself, all confirmed its ancient status and authorship... Samantha McDonough cannot believe her eyes -- or her luck. Tucked in an uncut page of a two-hundred-year old poetry book is a letter she believes was written by Jane Austen, mentioning with regret a manuscript that "went missing at Greenbriar in Devonshire."...
Author
Series
(Francis Scott),Selections volume 1
Publisher
Garland Pub
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
2 v. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the pre-Gutenberg age. Ranging from the earliest intact book in Europe, to the only known literary manuscript to be written in Shakespeare's hand, scholar Mary Wellesley reveals the secret lives of these literary and artistic treasures. Traipsing through the remarkable history, she recounts fires (the only surviving Beowulf manuscript is singed at its edges, losing a bit of its matter every decade)...
16) Fire the depths
Author
Series
Max Tilt volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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As his family struggles with his mother's illness and a foreclosure, Max finds his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Vernes unpublished manuscript and embarks on a submarine adventure to save the story from falling into the wrong hands.
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather's home when he discovers a mysterious manuscript written by none other than Adana Moreau. With the help of his friend Javier,...
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
19) The codex
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
396 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Greetings from the dead," Maxwell Broadbent, a notorious treasure hunter and tomb raider who vanished along with all his riches, declares from the videotape he had left behind after his mysterious disappearance. As is revealed, Maxwell has buried himself and his invaluable collection of rare gems, art, and artifacts somewhere in the world, putting his three sons to the challenge of now finding his pharaoh-like tomb if they plan on ever claiming his...
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