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"Liesl Weiss has been (mostly) happy working in the rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing. Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book but is told repeatedly to keep quiet to keep the...
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English
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A collection of essays and stories in which a do-it-yourself surburban dad saves money by performing home surgery, a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world, a bitter Santa abuses the elves, a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral and so on.
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family struggles with his mother's illness and a foreclosure, Max finds his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Vernes unpublished manuscript and embarks on a submarine adventure to save the story from falling into the wrong hands.
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.
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English
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To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu...
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
757 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Since the eleventh century, the Spinoza family has passed down, from father to son, a secret manuscript containing the recipe for immortality. Now, after thirty-six generations, the last descendant of this long and illustrious chain, Ari Spinoza, doesn’t have a son to whom to entrust the manuscript. From his deathbed, he begins his narrative, hoping to save his lineage from oblivion. Ari’s two main sources of his family’s history are a trunk...
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
ix, 1115 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Presents the restored texts of four novels written by American author William Faulkner in the years between 1942 and 1954, based on his manuscripts, typescripts, and proof sheets, including "Go Down, Moses"; "Intruder in the Dust"; "Requiem for a Nun"; and "A Fable."
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English
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Sister Eve, a motorcycle-riding nun with a natural (or is it supernatural?) gift for solving murders returns to the enclave she once called home and quickly finds herself confronting yet another mysterious death. Someone has poisoned Dr. Kelly Middlesworth — a researcher on the life and ministry of 17th-century’s revered “Blue Nun” — and a set of irreplaceable historic documents have disappeared before they could even be examined. When all...
10) Melmoth: a novel
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English
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Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But her sheltered life is about to change. A strange manuscript has come into her possession. It is filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, which all record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet: Melmoth, the loneliest being in...
11) Pym: a novel
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
322 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes is obsessed with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel. When he discovers the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that seems to confirm the reality of Poe’s fiction, he resolves to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes with horror. Jaynes imagines it to be the last untouched bastion of...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
77 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of Emily Sands's ill-fated expedition to find the lost tomb of Osiris was told in her journal, Egyptology. Now a new book, written by Miss Sands for her niece and nephew, has been discovered. Here, in this illustrated course book, Sands offers thirty lessons exploring the history and culture of ancient Egypt that are sure to make you an undeniable expert in Egyptology!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages : charts ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Have you always wanted to write a book, but don't know where to start? Or maybe you're really great at writing the first few chapters . . . but you never quite make it to the end? Or do you finally have a finished manuscript, but you're not sure what to do next? Fear not -- if you have writing-related questions, this book has answers! Whether you're writing for fun or to build a career, bestselling author Ally Carter is ready to help you make your...
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Publisher
Creativebug.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file): color, sound
Language
English
Description
Artist, printmaker, and educator Sarah Matthews demonstrates her vibrant signature style of layering stamps to create graphic prints. Throughout each week of this daily practice, you'll design, carve, and print your own stamps. Then, you'll bind the resulting prints into four different book structures. The month is rounded out with additional techniques that you can use in any book art project. Sarah's playful, low-pressure style and dynamic approach...
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English
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"Set across the U.S. and abroad, Meron Hadero stories feature immigrants, refugees, and those on the brink of dispossession, all struggling to begin again, all fighting to belong. Moving through diverse geographies and styles, this captivating collection follows characters on the journey toward home, which they dream of, create and redefine, lose and find and make their own. Beyond migration, these stories examine themes of race, gender, class, friendship...
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