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"It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the...
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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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Gideon Crew volume 3
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English
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After being tasked with stealing a page from a priceless, ancient book, brilliant scientist and master thief Gideon Crew discovers a hidden map on the back of the book's parchment, in the third novel of the series following Gideon's Corpse.
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2015.
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English
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For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed demands of her family's social world or her sort of engagement to the staid son of her father's law partner. But when her ten year relationship implodes, Lucy realizes that the plot of her life is in need of serious rewrite. Calling on her Aunt Ellen, Lucy hopes that a little fun in the Outer Banks sun and some confections from...
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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As Camille Benson, the mother of the newly elected mayor of Marthasville, Virginia, prepares to take over a local antiques business, the discovery of the previous owner's body in the antiques shop leads Camille to investigate the possible connection between his murder and a previously unreported theft of rare books.
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are settling into domestic life with their son Max when the warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung break into their loft and steal a powerful spell book. Realizing that Ragnor and Shinyun are being controlled by a more sinister force, Magnus and Alec set out to stop them and recover the book before they can cause any more harm. With the help of Clary Fairchild, Jace Herondale, Isabelle Lightwood, and Simon Lovelace (who...
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English
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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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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Año 1517. El joven Thomas atraviesa la incipiente Europa renacentista huyendo de su pasado. Son los años siguientes al descubrimiento de América y la invención de la imprenta, un periodo de profundos cambios que han supuesto el fin de la Edad Media. La curiosidad que siente por el Nuevo Mundo, cosechada en sus múltiples lecturas, le llevará hasta España, donde comenzará a trabajar con un mercader de libros. El encargo de localizar un ejemplar...
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Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Felicity Carrol is interested in everything--except being a proper young matron of Victorian society. Brilliant and resourceful, Felicity took refuge in science and education after her mother died and her father abandoned her to servants. Now, all he wants is for her to marry into a family of status and money. Felicity has other ambitions--but her plans shudder to a halt when her mentor is murdered at the British Museum and his priceless manuscript...
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Etch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Headed to the Mumbai, India for her next caper! The Magna Cartas are on special exhibit, and cunning and cutting VILE operative Paperstar makes off with the precious documents. Carmen must get them back before Paperstar can hand them off to VILE, all while evading capture by the ACME agents hot on her trail. Who will end up with the priceless papers? Adventure awaits in this action-packed graphic novel starring...
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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"In 1980, an antique print dealer was going broke from competition and lack of supply. Then he discovered all the high-quality antique prints he could ever want--for free--on the shelves of American university libraries. Torn from Their Bindings tells the story of Robert Kindred's brazen theft of irreplaceable antique illustrations and maps from academic libraries across the country--a crime spree that left the irredeemable wreck of countless rare...
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