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84) House of leaves
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Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Celtic illuminated manuscripts continue to fascinate us with their intricacy and craftsmanship. Christian monks believed the gospels to be the Word of God, and to glorify His name they brought the sacred text alive with dazzling colors and splendid designs. Here Courtney Davis re-creates portraits of the saints, border designs, Celtic symbols and elaborate initials from all the Irish School manuscripts, spanning the period from the beginning of the...
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In medieval Ireland, Theophane's boredom with his duties as a scribe distracts the other monks, but when he is sent to the kitchens he discovers that he can make inks of many colors from plants, allowing the others to illustrate their work. Includes facts about the history of monasteries, scriptoriums, and illuminated manuscripts.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The discovery made front-page news around the world - if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the celibate, all-male priesthood, but the entire the 2,000-year...
93) The red tree
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Sarah Crowe left Atlanta, and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship, to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant - a parapsychologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the property.
94) Illuminations
Author
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
A dictionary, illustrated like a medieval manuscript, describing terms common in the Middle Ages.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise...This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction with a view of its subject and vision, and how to take it apart and put it back together again, stronger and deeper. Scofield builds her explanations around...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Washed-up celebrity novelist turned ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is finally making progress on his long-awaited second novel. Burrowed away in his sweltering fifth-floor walk-up, he's also trying not to think about the fine summer he and his ex-wife, celebrity actress Merilee Nash, have just spent together on her bucolic Connecticut farm. Sort of together, that is. She was generous enough to offer him the use of her guest cottage. But now Merilee...
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
In the final season of A Discovery of Witches, Matthew and Diana return from their trip to 1590 to find tragedy has occurred at Sept-Tours. They must locate the missing pages from the Book of Life and the Book itself before it's too late. But their enemies are gearing up against them, and a monster from Matthew's past has been lying in wait to return for revenge.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The prophecy: The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
The prophecy II: Gabriel returns to try to destroy the human race he despises so much, with the help of a suicidal teen and the opposition of the angel Daniel.
The prophecy III: the ascent: As the war in Heaven and on Earth rages on, Pyriel, the Angel of Genocide, rises to power, intending...
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