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62) 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.
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Description
Harry Middleton has possession of a priceless score by Frederic Chopin that puts him and thousands of Americans in grave danger. Hidden amidst measures and notes is a secret that others are willing to kill for, and Middleton must work toward discovering the mystery of the manuscript while also protecting his life.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"CWhen Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of potentially hearing a response from the unknown...
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipher found near the body. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of a Vinci--clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the...
Author
Series
Bravo Shaw novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The end of days has been predicted for the last two thousand years. But now, without warning, it is upon us. Braverman 'Bravo' Shaw, member of a secret Franciscan splinter sect, has survived a battle as old as time itself: the battle between good and evil. Working with his once-blind sister, Emma, and his confessor, Fra Leoni, Bravo went to war with the Fallen, Lucifer's advance guard and emerged with The Book of Deathly Things -- Lucifer's first...
67) Fire the depths
Author
Series
Max Tilt series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt happens upon his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he doesn't realize that he's found the answers to all his problems. And Max has a lot of problems--his mother is sick, his father is out of work, and his home is about to beforeclosed on. But when Max and his cousin Alex discover that Verne's last work reveals everything he wrote was fact, not fiction,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
For most people, the death of Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent is solved. In June of 1874, while out riding through Estes Park, Colorado, with a friend, Nugent was shot and killed by Griff Evans. Case closed. Professor David McIntyre is not most people. When McIntyre finds evidence that Nugent wrote a manuscript soon before his death, he starts to wonder about what it contained. And if it still exists. Convinced the manuscript will shed light on the murder,...
71) The Lucifer code
Author
Series
Thomas Lourds novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
An ancient manuscript has remained concealed for centuries -- within its pages lies the key to the most unholy secret known to mankind. A sacred brotherhood has sworn, generation after generation, to protect this terrifying truth from those who would use it to unleash doomsday upon mankind. When the unthinkable happens, and the holy scroll is uncovered, the race is on to reveal the true meaning of the cryptic language. Only one man, Dr. Thomas Lourds,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
El descubrimiento de un manuscrito magico en la biblioteca de Oxford, Diana Bishop, un descendiente de las brujas que ha rechazado su herencia, da rienda suelta a un submundo fantastico de los demonios, brujas, vampiros y cuyas actividades se centran alrededor de un tesoro encantado.
Discovering a magical manuscript in Oxford's library, Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage, unleashes a fantastical underworld of demons,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale comes a new novel about an obsessive bibliophile's quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail. Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library. Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
75) La luz invisible
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Mientras trabaja en una iglesia antigua en Donostia, la restauradora de arte, Marta Arbide encuentra un manuscrito oculto tras un falso muro durante siglos. Se trata del diario de Jean de la Croix, un monje medieval a quien, mil años atrás, le fue encomendada una misión: llevar una misteriosa reliquia hasta un escondite seguro y huir de los sicarios que, por orden del papa Inocencio III, le perseguían para arrebatársela. Intrigada por el contenido...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Description
"Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series Jessica Fletcher has had plenty to worry about over her storied career, both as a bestselling novelist and amateur sleuth. But she never had any reason to worry about her longtime publisher, Lane Barfield, who also happens to be a trusted friend. When mounting evidence of financial malfeasance leads to an FBI investigation...
Series
Description
In this explosive sequel to The Chopin Manuscript, former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton returns. This time, Middleton is drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war. Careening from Europe to Asia in order to prevent nuclear catastrophe, Middleton is unaware that his prey has changed and that the act of terror is much more diabolical than he can imagine.