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"After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...
2) Heartwishes
Author
Series
Edilean volume 5
Language
English
Description
Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years -- and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ester Velasquez is an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city. Helen Watt is an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When Helen is summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation, she enlists the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming. In a race...
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English
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It is time for mistletoe and merriment--for everyone except Robin Frazier. As Jasper Gulch's centennial celebrations reach their festive conclusion, her guilt is only mounting. The shy historian is hiding something--something that will affect everyone in town. And the more time she spends with pastor Ethan Johnson, creating an old-fashioned Christmas for his church, the more she realizes what this secret is costing her. He is just the kind of man...
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 8
Language
English
Description
When a murder occurs in Landon Mansion, docent and historian Allison Leigh works with Agent Tyler Montague to discover if the ghost of British Lord "Butcher" Bedford has resurfaced or if there is another malevolent force at work.
Author
Series
Pink carnation volume 1
Language
English
Description
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.
11) Clio's southern sisters: interviews with leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians
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Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When antiquarian bookseller Robin Jessop finds a medieval scroll related to the war on the Knights Templar, she and encryption expert David Mallory find themselves on a global hunt for an unsurpassed treasure and secrets that could change history.
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After a turbulent childhood, the Morgan brothers went their separate ways, leaving the family cattle ranch and their cowboy days far behind. But now, one by one, they're being called back home to California. Have they been summoned to save the land or to start a new legacy? Chase Morgan high-tailed it away from ranching life as soon as possible. But running a successful technology company can't erase the memories, or secrets, of his youth. Coming...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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HL 860L
Language
English
Description
Provides a biography of Mercy Otis Warren, an unsung heroine of the American Revolution, who wrote patriotic plays and poems, including a history of the Revolution.
18) Paris echo
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
American historian Hannah intends to immerse herself in World War II research in Paris, wary of paying much attention to the city where a youthful misadventure once left her dejected. But a chance encounter with Tariq, a Moroccan teenager whose visions of the City of Lights as a world of opportunity and rebirth starkly contrast with her own, disrupts her plan. Hannah agrees to take Tariq in as a lodger, forming an unexpected connection with the young...
19) One true patriot
Author
Series
Eric Steele novel volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Eric Steele gets a call that a fellow Alpha is in serious trouble, he rushes to Paris. But it's too late - Ron Raines, Alpha Six, is dead, the victim of a brutal stabbing. While on leave in the City of Light, Raines had met an attractive art historian who lured him to his death. Before she vanished, the mysterious woman left a warning for anyone from the Alpha Program who might follow her. One of the best and most effective warriors in the U.S....
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English
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Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with whom he follows a trail to the spiritual societies of gothic New England.