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All souls trilogy volume 3
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English
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"After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...
2) Old bones
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Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving 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...
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"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with...
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Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
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"Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joan—an art historian by training—has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her—and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he’s fathered twins with another woman. Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to...
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"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
7) The hidden
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Krewe of Hunters volume 17
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English
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Wrongly implicated in a series of murders marked by supernatural phenomena and reminiscent of an unsolved Civil War-era mystery, historian Scarlet Barlow reaches out to her ex, an FBI agent who handles unusual cases and who has never stopped loving her.
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Art historian Vicky Bliss may be blond and beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. She also has the brain of an Einstein, the reckless courage of a test pilot -- and no one's more savvy about fine works of art. For example: the gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum is currently dangling in front of her. It's an exquisite replica of a Charlemagne talisman -- and it was found, along with a note written in hieroglyphs, sewn into the suit...
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Edilean series volume 5
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years -- and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
16) Color blind
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Series
Kate McKinnon novels volume 2
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
18) Deadly descent
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Lottie Albright mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Lottie Albright mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Another group of murders, and Undersheriff Lottie Albright is on the case, this time as lead investigator and director of the regional crime center. She is joined by a local and not-so-local cast of characters, whom have their own ideas about how certain elements of the case should be run. Can they solve the case, and stop the serial murderer, all while dealing with the bad winter weather destroying the crime scenes?
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 1
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English
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"A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face...
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