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"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sancctuary for their true narratives."--...
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Constantinople, 1203: As the rapacious armies of the Fourth Crusade lay siege to the city, a secretive band of Templars infiltrate the imperial library. Their target: a cache of documents that must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Doge of Venice. They escape with three heavy chests, filled with explosive secrets that these men will not live long enough to learn. Vatican City, present day: FBI agent Sean Reilly infiltrates the Pope's massive...
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All souls trilogy volume 1
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
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579 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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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.
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Robert Langdon volume 2
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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...
6) The codex
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Tom Doherty
Pub. Date
c2004
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396 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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"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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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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266 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"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,...
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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...
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Clarenceux trilogy volume 1
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2012
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459 p. : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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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...
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Tyler Locke volume 2
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Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
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438 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Tyler Locke is on board a Washington State ferry when he receives an anonymous call informing him that a bomb is set to detonate on deck in ten minutes -- long before the boat reaches port. When a frantic Locke races to the location, he finds classics professor Stacey Benedict has received the very same tip; in order to disarm the bomb, the two must work together to solve an engineering puzzle, a puzzle written in ancient Greek. But the entire setup...
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
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422 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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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."...
12) La luz invisible
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B
Pub. Date
2020.
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542 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"Mientras trabaja en una iglesia antigua en Donostia, la restauradora de arte, Marta Arbide encuentra un manuscrito oculto tras un falso muro durante siglos. Se trata del diario de Jean de la Croix, un monje medieval a quien, mil años atrás, le fue encomendada una misión: llevar una misteriosa reliquia hasta un escondite seguro y huir de los sicarios que, por orden del papa Inocencio III, le perseguían para arrebatársela. Intrigada por el contenido...
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Robert Langdon volume 2
Publisher
FonoLibro, Inc
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
19 sound discs (24 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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¿Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de la celebre Mona Lisa? . Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad… hasta ahora. Uno de los libros con mas tiempo en el tope de la lista de los Best Sellers del New York Times!.... El Código Da Vinci, ahora en un audiolibro narrado en español del bestseller internacional de Dan Brown, producido exclusivamente por FONOLIBRO, el cual no podrá dejar de escuchar hasta que llegue...
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