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Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides...
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Ester Velasquez is an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city. Helen Watt is an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming. In a race...
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Thursday Next volume 6
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2011.
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English
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It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
5) All clear
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Three time-traveling historians wind up in World War II England, where they discover small discrepancies in the historical record that indicate, contrary to the beliefs of time-travel theory, that one or all of them may have affected the past and changed the outcome of the war.
6) Timeline
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In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the...
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Pink carnation volume 1
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Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.
8) Old bones
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"Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, is approached by a historian, Clive Benton, with the opportunity to lead an expedition unlike any other. It begins with the story of the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage,...
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Vicky Bliss volume 1
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A treasure hunt in an old German castle leads Vicky Bliss on a dangerous search for a long-lost Gothic shrine carved by the great German sculptor Tilman Riemanschneider.
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A nameless Israeli historian narrates a report describing how his career as an expert on and tour guide at Nazi concentration camps caused him to become desensitized to the horrific details of the Holocaust, eventually causing him to lose his mental equilibrium as he confronts the distressing ways in which Holocaust memorials are used and abused in the modern world, the indifference of the young, the perpetuation of violence through trauma and revenge,...
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2024.
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Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
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2016.
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"In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain--a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape,...
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Foundation volume 7
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For nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his internationally bestselling Foundation Series, a spell-binding tale of the future that spans hundreds of years and dozens of worlds. Here, now, is Forward the Foundation, the seventh and final volume in the series. Completed just before his death, it is the Grand Master's last gift to his legions of admirers. Here, at last, is the story Asimov fans have been waiting for, an...
14) Genesis
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2009.
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English
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Hoping to gain entry into her utopian society's elite governing institution, Anax uncovers information that forces her to contemplate the nature of consciousness and the rights of humanity in the face of complex artificial intelligence technology.
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Random House
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c1998.
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English
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In Moscow, American history professor Fluke Kelso learns from secret papers that Stalin had a son. A momentous discovery that could revolutionize Russia by bringing back Stalinism. But first he has to find him and that could get Kelso killed.
16) The Sherlockian
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2010.
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Literary researcher and Sherlock Holmes enthusiast Harold White is shocked when a scholar who discovered Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary is murdered, while in 1890s London, Conan Doyle hunts a serial killer to prove his superiority to his famous character.
17) Giotto's hand
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Art history mysteries volume 5
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Someone's planning to raid an ancient monastery in Rome. But why? And when? Enter art expert Jonathan Argyll.
18) Trojan gold
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Vicky Bliss volume 4
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Harper
Pub. Date
c1987.
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English
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Art historian Vicky Bliss goes to Bavaria searching for the missing gold of Troy. Soon her treasure hunt turns into a more deadly game.
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Ballantine
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Remembering the falling out that ended her friendship with fellow student Christine, stained glass artist Juno apprehensively attends her former friend's lecture and is horrified when the woman is subsequently murdered, an occurrence that forces Juno to confront emotional truths about her own life.
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