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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of the founders of modern calligraphy, Edward Johnston regarded lettering, writing, and illuminating as not only desirable ends in themselves but also as practical avenues to mastery of typography, decoration, and design. In this classic, profusely illustrated guide, he distilled his expertise into a series of easy-to-follow lessons that will benefit any student of calligraphy, book design, or art. Part I is devoted to writing and illuminating....
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 online resource : illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Echo Gear is a "hybrid codex," a mash up of imagery, text, sequential art, editorial and advertorial nodes. A story told in codes, puzzles, wordplay, and cross-referenced archaic media. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Echo Gear is a "hybrid codex," a mash up of imagery, text, sequential art, editorial and advertorial nodes. A story told in codes, puzzles, wordplay, and cross-referenced archaic media. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul.
The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of...
The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of...
12) Alex & Emma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alex is an author whose writer's block and gambling debts have landed him in trouble. In order to get the loan sharks off his back, he must finish his novel in 30 days or end up dead. To help him complete his manuscript, he hires stenographer, Emma. As Alex begins to dictate his tale of a romantic love triangle, Emma challenges his ideas at every turn. Her unsolicited, yet intriguing input, begins to inadvertently influence Alex and his story and...
14) La biblia negra
Author
Series
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Una triple trama, con un extraño manuscrito, el Libro de Abraham, como hilo conductor, nos llevará desde el Toledo de finales del siglo XV y la Sevilla del siglo de Oro hasta el Madrid de nuestros días. Un antiquísimo manuscrito, el Libro de Abraham, desvela en sus páginas la más preciada fórmula alquimista: cómo fabricar oro. Quien lo tenga en sus manos deberá saber hacer uso de él y guardarse de la codicia ajena. El canónigo Armena tuvo...
Author
Series
All souls trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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Description
Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery and banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries--and she is the only creature who can break its spell.
17) Persian painting
Author
Publisher
Skira
Pub. Date
1977
Physical Desc
190 p. : col. ill.
Language
English
Author
Series
Celestine series (James Redfield) volume 1
Publisher
Satori Pub
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
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