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Rare book authenticator Cary's Jones wanted nothing more than to be left alone to pursue her obsession with ancient manuscripts. But when her biggest client is committed to an asylum, he gives Cary's an offer she cannot refuse. In exchange for his entire library of priceless, Dark Age manuscripts, Cary's must track the clues hidden in a previously unknown journal, clues that lead to a tomb that could rewrite the history of Western civilization. But...
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"With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind...
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"Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut-a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according...
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One of Hasty Booklist's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels!
USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford—one of 1930s London's hottest socialites, authors, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters—and a modern American desperate for change, connected through time by a little London bookshop.
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"The Aspern Papers" is the story of an unnamed narrator who travels to Venice in search of some letters by Jeffrey Aspern, a famous and now dead American poet. Inspired by a true story about a fan of the poet Shelley who sought out similar papers, The Aspern Papers is one of Henry James's more popular novellas. It is included in this volume with the following three shorter works by Henry James: "The Private Life," "The Middle Years," and "The Death...
10) Animal life
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"From winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, comes a dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland. In the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in...
13) The Amber Garden
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Alchemists' Council volume 3
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Eternal conflicts between the Council and Rebel Branch intensify, the Amber Garden dissolves, conjoined pairs separate, alchemists die, and Cedar is cast out to the outside world. Efforts of both alchemists and rebels to resolve the dissolution of Council and Flaw dimensions are in vain. Thankfully, the alchemists have woven a thread of hope into an alchemically inscribed book, which they send out into the outside world with the purpose of drawing...
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"Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, returns to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. When Gemma finds a rare magazine hidden in the bookshop, she and her friend Jayne set off to find the owner, only to stumble upon a dead body"--Provided by publisher.
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Museum kittens volume 2
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"The Museum Kittens are curious when a rare Egyptian papyrus is brought to the museum on loan. But from the moment the papyrus arrives, strange things start to happen, and rumors of an ancient curse begin to spread. Tasha is determined to prove to the other kittens that there's nothing to be afraid of. Then one night, a pipe bursts, and the gallery is flooded--and the kittens are trapped! Can they figure out a way to save themselves--and all of the...
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In 1942, London. Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. When a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay. Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written by Nancy Mitford. For one woman desperately in need of a...
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Alchemists' Council volume 1
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As a new Initiate with the Alchemists' Council, Jaden is trained to maintain the elemental balance of the world, while fending off interference by the malevolent Rebel Branch.
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