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Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"When a package from an antiquarian bookshop in Frankfurt, Germany, arrives in Dorset, Vermont, the recipient finds that it contains a mysterious note and rare book. Bound in vellum, the book is impressed with the image of a woman holding a chalice in her outstretched hands as she stands atop a rock near an unsheathed sword"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books’ previous owners—an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors,...
Author
Series
Hardy Boys Clue Book volume 16
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Detective brothers Frank and Joe must catch a book thief to save their library.
5) The forgers
Author
Series
Forgers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When reclusive rare-book collector Adam Diehl is found dead in his home, Adam's sister Meghan and her lover Will, a convicted literary forger, begin receiving threatening letters from someone who knows secrets about Adam's death and Will's past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado más de dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le arrastra...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
febrero 2009.
Language
Español
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Description
Un amanecer de 1945 un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo XX, desde los últimos esplendores...
Author
Series
Luke Daniels thriller volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Searching for the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible, rare manuscripts that contain the key to ending a looming threat orbiting 200 miles above the earth, Luke Daniels must find them before others, both inside and outside of Russia, unleash the destructive potential of the Red Star program.
10) Hemlock
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 28
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Herbalist China Bayles investigates the disappearance of the most valuable book at the Hemlock House Library, a haunted mountainside manor in North Carolina that houses a collection of rare gardening books.
Author
Series
The Invisible Library volume 1
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative...
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