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ix, 165 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
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English
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John Keats: A poet and His Manuscripts traces the life and career of the poet through the surviving manuscripts of many of his finest poems and letters. Mostly shown in their entirety, many at actual size, Keats's original manuscripts provide a unique visual record of his creative processes and rapid literary progress. Nearly 200 years after they were first written, they have lost none of their immediacy. Charged with a restless intensity, the poet's...
5) The Essene Gospel of peace: Book one :the Third Century Aramaic manuscript and old Slavonic texts
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64 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
10) Enter the core
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Max Tilt volume 3
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English
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"Max Tilt thinks his luck is finally changing, thanks to his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures. Using the clues Verne left behind, Max and his cousin Alex were able to bottle the magical healing elements needed to cure his mother's illness just in the nick of time. But then Max and Alex discover that the vials were stolen by their former friend, Bitsy. She has plans to use them to save...
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Cathy Bonidan's The Lost Manuscript is a charming epistolary novel about the love of books and magical ability they have to bring people together. Sometimes a book has the power to change your life ... When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer...
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287 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Alternating between the protagonist's present life and passages of a manuscript in translation, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea is a genre-bending exploration of memory, war, technology, friendship, love, consciousness, and the challenges of caring for others in an age where we are so often lost in our own minds"--
In the near future, a young woman finds her mother's body on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets on a journey through language, archives,...
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359 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The suspicious death of literary critic Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris reveals the secret history of the French intelligentsia, plunging a hapless police detective into the depths of literary theory as it was documented in a famed linguist's lost manuscript.
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English
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When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her--in a manhunt that pits him against Islamic terrorists and a search for answers regarding a centuries-old Islamic manuscript.
19) 80 days or die
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Max Tilt volume 2
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392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt stumbled across his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he thought he had the answer to all his problems, but nothing in life is ever that easy. With his mom's illness getting worse again, Max needs to figure out a way to save his family--now more than ever. So Max and his cousin Alex revisit The Lost Treasures, and they find a clue that just might be the...
20) Blood and ink
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Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the library in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained by Islamist militants--and both are caught up in the war in Mali and on opposite sides of the stuggle to save the sacred Sufi manuscripts that the militants want to destroy.
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