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People of the Book
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Geraldine Brooks
From the Pulitzer Prizeawinning author of "March," the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. ...
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Celestine Prophecy
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James Redfield
First published in 1993, this tale has gained a loyal following, entertaining and inspiring thousands of readers with its far-reaching ideas. First-time author James Redfield carries the reader through a quest that begins when the main character decides to follow the exciting trail of a mysterious manuscript rumored to exist somewhere in the ...
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Possession: A Romance
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A S Byatt
Maud Bailey is a scholar researching the life and work of her distant relative, a little known 19th-century poet named Christabel LaMotte. Roland Mitchell is looking into an obscure moment in the life of another Victorian poet, the celebrated Randolph Henry Ash. Together, the two uncover a dark secret in Ash's life: though apparently happily ...
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The Codex
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Douglas J Preston
"Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing---along with his entire collection---from his mansion in New Mexico ...
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Prince of Darkness
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Sharon Kay Penman
While Prince John is prepared to do a great deal to clear his way to the throne--including scheming with England's enemies to ensure that his brother King Richard remains imprisoned in Germany--he apparently will not stoop to regicide. When a letter surfaces that falsely claims that Prince John does indeed have murder on his mind, the prince asks ...
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Harvard Yard
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William Martin
- HARVARD YARD revisits the characters and Boston setting that catapulted William Martin to bestsellerdom in the classic "Back Bay (Crown, 1979/Pocket, 1081/Warner, 1992). A "New York Times bestseller, there are more than 175,000 copies in print for Warner.- William Martin is the author of six previous books, which have over 2.4 million combined ...
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Magic Circle
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Katherine Neville
The Hansel and Gretel story as told from the point of view of the witch. The story begins with how a midwife was tricked by the devil and forced to become a witch and then takes up the story of Hansel and Gretel, in this case focusing on Gretel rather than Hansel.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/Pearl/Sir Orfeo
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J R R Tolkien (Translator), Christopher Tolkien (Preface by)
Three epic poems from 14th century England speak of life during the age of chivalry. Translated from medieval English.
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The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
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Bernard Meehan
This edition reproduces the most important of the fully decorated pages plus a series of enlargements showing the almost unbelievable minuteness of the detail; spiral and interlaced patterns, human and animal ornament - a combination of high seriousness and humour. Accompanying the illustrations is a new text by Bernard Meehan, the Keeper of ...
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Moving Target
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Elizabeth Lowell
The troubling message from Serena Charters's late grandmother appears in a package containing four pages of a centuries-old illuminated manuscript -- a strange inheritance that hides many secrets...and has already cost many lives. Seeking answers, Serena turns to Erik North of Rarities Unlimited, a reclusive manuscript appraiser with a passion for ...
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The Illuminator
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Brenda Rickman Vantrease
It is England, in the late fourteenth century, a time when the whim of a lord or the pleasure of a bishop can seal nearly anyone's fate. The printing press has yet to be invented. Books, written only in Latin or Norman French, are rare and costly, painstakingly lettered and illuminated with exquisite paintings---far beyond the reach of ordinary ...
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Great Pianists
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Harold C Schonberg
The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities of history's greatest pianists--from Mozart to the modern-day masters.
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The Poet and the Murderer: 2a True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery
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Simon Worrall
This tale explains how Mark Hofmann, a brilliant forger who managed to create a fake Dickinson poem that deceived experts, presented a series of forgeries that duped the Mormon community.
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The rebel angels
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Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies uses his magical touch to weave together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, creating a wise and witty portrait of love, murder, and scholarship at a modern university.
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William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books
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William Blake, David Bindman (Introduction by), John Commander (Foreword by)
The nature of William Blake's genius is most completely expressed in his Illuminated Books. As poet/artist Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content and beautiful in form. It is only through the pages as originally conceived and published by the ...
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Celtic Design
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Aidan Meehan
The oldest and most characteristically Celtic type of design, spiral patterns illustrate vividly the continuity between pagan and Christian Celtic art. Spirals are a constant presence, from the art of Late Stone Age Central Europe, through megalithic temple sculptures, the La Tene bronzes of the Gauls and Britons, and Pictish jewels, to the ...
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color
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William Blake
Inspired satire on religion and morality, including 70 aphorisms of "Proverbs of Hell." 27 full-color plates, full text.
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Codex
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Lev Grossman
A young investment banker named Edward Wozny becomes involved in a bizarre situation when he finds that a pair of clients--a fabulously wealthy duke and duchess--hire him to catalog their long-neglected library of rare books. The plot gradually zeroes in on one of those books: a rare and elusive medieval text that may or may not exist. Along with ...
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Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique
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Marc Drogin
Spirited history and comprehensive instruction manual covers 13 styles (ca. 4th-15th centuries). Excellent photographs; directions for duplicating medieval techniques with modern tools.
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The Prophetess
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Barbara Wood
The 21st century is approaching, and Caroline Alexander is determined to translate the ancient scrolls she has discovered. Deadly enemies are on her trail, but despite several almost fatal moments, she completes the translation and finds evidence to suggest that heaven really does exist.
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Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844
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Karl Marx
This predecessor to the "Communist Manifesto" offers a historical analysis of the human condition. It forms the foundation of the author's denunciation of capitalism, combining elements of psychology, sociology, and anthropology in a philosophy of economics. Accessible and influential, this concise treatise is essential to an understanding of ...
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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William Blake
No work has challenged its readers like Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". His "Proverbs of Hell" have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of these. Most extraordinary is the revolutionary method of its making. The "Bodleian Library" copy is one ...
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The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
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John Plummer (Commentaries by)
When the magnificent volume first appeared in 1966, it was celebrated for its extraordinary beauty. Now, more than thirty years since its first publication, it is made available once again. Illustrating one of the great art treasures of the world, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is a fiteenth century illuminated manuscript containing a series of ...
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Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction
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George Bain
Celtic art has long been regarded as an enigma owing to its abstract, ikonographic and symbolic style. This offers a chronology of symbols and deals with zoomorphics (plant and human forms), authentic Celtic lettering and examples of applications in knitwear, carpets and ceramics.
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The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure
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James Redfield
The Celestine Prophecy is a compelling story of intrique, suspense and revelation. An ancient manuscript has been found amid ruins in Peru. It reveals nine key insights that are critical to the evolution of the human race. It contains secrets that are changing our world - and it tells you how to make connections between the events happening in ...
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