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-- Twelve twenty-onec2012., Adult, The Dial Press Call No: Fic Tho Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Shortly before December 21, 2012, a CDC expert encounters a confounding medical mystery, and a talented Mayan scholar comes into possession of a priceless codex with terrifying implications for modern civilization."--Novelist.
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2021., Graydon House Call No: Fic Gab Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Desperate for money, struggling young author Nancy Mitford takes a job managing the Heywood Hill bookshop, where she meets a mysterious French officer who has a compelling story to tell.
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2024., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: NEW Fic Fle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Curiosity begins when a present-day historian discovers a cache of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that each, astonishingly, tells the same strange story from vastly different points of view. The five manuscripts (which become the five parts of the novel) spin this tale: after the plague descends upon a village in England, two children, Joan and Thomasina, are the only survivors. They bond tightly with each other and with a mute woman living in a field nearby, who discovers and cares for them. When people return, the woman, as the lone adult alive, is accused of witchcraft, and the children are separated. Joan becomes a maid in the local manor house, and eventually, through her intelligence and skill, companion to the fascinating Lady Margaret Long. Thomasina, taken on a voyage to Virginia, decides to adopt boy's clothing and navigate life as a man named Tom. Tom and Joan find each other again as adults and fall in love, but are discovered together, naked, by young clergyman John Heard. Shocked and horrified, he believes in only one explanation for Tom's state: Joan must be a witch. Tom, trying to save both himself and Joan, runs as far away as he can, taking a position aboard an expedition through the Northwest Passage. The modern historian pieces together the interlocking stories of all five manuscripts and adds her own layer of "truth" to a history and time period where labels for who Tom and Joan might truly be, didn't yet exist. .
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2006., Adult, HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: SC MYS Fic McD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When torrential rains uncover a bizarrely tattoed body on a Lake District hillside, old wives' tales come swirling to the surface. Is this the site of an ancient massacre, as retold in a Wordsworth poem? Jane Gresham follows the leads - but death is hard on her heels, and the mystery can still put lives on the line.
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c2009., Random House Call No: MYS Fic Pea Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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2002., Vintage International Call No: Fic Pam Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A furor erupts in sixteenth-century Istanbul when the Sultan commissions the European-style illumination of a great book, and the situation worsens when one of the miniaturists vanishes mysteriously.
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2008., Viking Call No: Fic Bro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fictionalized account of the turbulent history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript which has survived into the twentieth century thanks to people of various faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Hanna Heath, a manuscript conservator hired to restore the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, finds and pursues clues to crucial moments in the book's history.
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c2010., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Coo Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Luc Simard is an archaeologist with a flawless academic career and a flawed history with women. An old friend invites Luc to France to help him decipher a 14th-century manuscript discovered after a fire in a monastery. The book contains a map that will lead them to a ten-chambered cave painted with images more sophisticated than those found at Lascaux.
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2010., Vanguard Press Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Harold Middleton Volume: 1-2Summary Note: In "The Chopin Manuscript" former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frederic Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. "The Copper Bracelet"--Sequel to "The Chopin Manuscript"--follows Harold Middleton as he's drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war.
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