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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this thriller from the author of Jurassic Park, Sphere, and Congo, a group of young scientists travel back in time to medieval France on a daring rescue mission that becomes a struggle to stay alive.
“Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined.”—Los Angeles Times
In an Arizona desert,...
“Compulsive reading . . . brilliantly imagined.”—Los Angeles Times
In an Arizona desert,...
Author
Series
All souls trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Historian and witch Diana Bishop and her vampire scientist husband Matthew Clairmont return from a trip to the past still searching for the elusive alchemy tome "Ashmole 782."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels.
4) Infamous
Author
Language
English
Description
While history professor Alison Carter is consulting on a film version of the Wild West legend she is an expert on, A. J. Gallagher arrives to put an end to the false legend that has tarnished his family's reputation for years.
6) Genesis
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this bold and ingenious thriller questions what it means to be human as philosophical questions collide with technology.
8) Still life
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1944 Tuscany, as Allied troops advance, a young English soldier has a chance encounter with a middle-aged art historian with whom he finds a kindred spirit who sets him off on a course of events that will shape his life for the next four decades.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Draws on personal experiences and the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists, and historians to illuminate the enduring capacity of faith in explaining and meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Eloise Kelly sets off for England to complete her disseration on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentain, discovering references to the most elusive spy of all, the Pink Carnation. As she works to unmask this spy, she stumbles across answers to all kinds of questions. Will she escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero all her own?
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
14) The Sherlockian
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1967, Paul Conway, a journalist and self-professed film aficionado, searches for the single copy of The Devil’s Playground, a terrifying horror picture from 1927 rumored to have unleashed a curse on everyone involved in the production.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A tale based on the Pulaski disaster of 1838 follows the efforts of a Savannah history professor to guest-curate a museum collection of wreck artifacts while researching the stories of 11 family members who were aboard the doomed steamship.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When someone else lays claim to the cottage where he spent his childhood summers, Hugh, a historian, finds this person’s revelation unraveling a secret—a betrayal, a disappearance and an unstoppable acted of violence—that has impacted the Italian village of Valetto across generations.
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