Rare Books Uncovered

Author : Rebecca Rego Barry
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 0760361584
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rare Books Uncovered written by Rebecca Rego Barry and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precious old books found in unlikely places, from the family that avoided foreclosure through a book in their attic to a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle in a local fundraiser.

Author : Rebecca Rego Barry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rare Books Uncovered written by Rebecca Rego Barry and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discoveries of rare and collectible books are chronicled in stories from both casual and die-hard book collectors"--

Author : Eva Jurczyk
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728238609
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections written by Eva Jurczyk and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Bestseller "With its countless revelations about the dusty realms of rare books, a likable librarian sleuth who has just the right balance of compassion and wit, and a library setting that is teeming with secrets, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a rare treat for readers. I loved this book!"—Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore Anxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soon she has to ask: what holds more secrets in the library—the ancient books shelved in the stacks, or the people who preserve them? Liesl Weiss long ago learned to be content working behind the scenes in the distinguished rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing. Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book, but is told repeatedly to keep quiet, to keep the doors open and the donors happy. But then a librarian unexpectedly stops showing up to work. Liesl must investigate both disappearances, unspooling her colleagues' pasts like the threads of a rare book binding as it becomes clear that someone in the department must be responsible for the theft. What Liesl discovers about the dusty manuscripts she has worked among for so long—and about the people who care for and revere them—shakes the very foundation on which she has built her life. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a sparkling book-club read about a woman struggling to step out from behind the shadows of powerful and unreliable men, and reveals the dark edge of obsession running through the most devoted bookworms. February 2022 INDIE NEXT Selection January 2022 LIBRARY READS Selection January 2022 Loan Star Selection Pop Sugar 35 Must-Read Thrillers and Mystery Books

Author : Lori Foster
Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 1488025614
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncovered written by Lori Foster and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sizzling fan-favorite tale from New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster After a blaze on his block results in an overturned Dumpster, firefighter Harris Blackfinds a shoebox filled with striking nudes and a handwritten note admitting to the woman'slove for…him? Who is the enigmatic woman in the photos, and how does she know him sowell? His next door neighbor and best friend, P.I. Clair Caldwell, is the perfect personto help him solve the mystery. Except that Clair is already more involved than he evercould have guessed…

Author : Robert I. Berkman
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Find it Fast written by Robert I. Berkman and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1990 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First edition"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319) and index.

Author : Leah Lax
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 163152996X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncovered written by Leah Lax and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovered is the only memoir to tell of a gay woman leaving the hasidic fold. Told in understated, crystalline prose, Leah Lax begins her story as a young teen leaving her secular home to become a hasidic Jew, then plumbs the nuances of her arranged marriage, fundamentalist faith, and hasidic motherhood as, all the while, creative, sexual, and spiritual longings tremble beneath the surface.

Author : Mao Kirisaka
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596035075
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RILEY written by Mao Kirisaka and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong, dependable man I can trust my life with… After a terrifying explosion, Regina is convinced that she has a stalker and begins taking self-defense lessons from instructor Riley Moore. Riley, a former SWAT member, feels a strong attraction to Regina and decides to investigate her case. While she’s scared for her life, Regina feels at ease when she’s with Riley, and she has no choice but to admit that there’s a sizzling connection growing between them. But Regina’s past trauma prevents her from having the confidence to take the next step in their relationship…

Author : Lin Enger
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316032700
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Undiscovered Country written by Lin Enger and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer. When the muffled crack of a gunshot rings out, Jesse unaccountably knows something is wrong-and he races through the trees to find his dad dead of a rifle wound, apparently self-inflicted. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why? Haunted by the ghost of his father, Jesse delves into family secrets, wrestles with questions of justice and retribution, and confronts the nature of his own responsibility. And just when he's decided that he alone must shoulder his family's burden, the beautiful and troubled Christine Montez enters his life, forcing him to reconsider his plans. In spare, elegant prose, Lin Enger tells the story of a young man trying to hold his family together in a world tipped suddenly upside down. Set among pristine lakes and beneath towering pines, Undiscovered Country is at once a bold reinvention of Shakespeare's Hamlet and a hair-bristling story of betrayal, revenge, and the possibilities of forgiveness.

Author : Pradeep Sebastian
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 9357314199
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Inky Parade written by Pradeep Sebastian and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pradeep Sebastian has been an avid bibliophile and book collector for over a decade. In this collection of essays, he paints in full splendour the picture of a life devoted to the romance of books, blending personal experience, revelatory conversations and bewitching legends from the world of books. Meet the biryani chef guarding a prized Ottoman manuscript, track the mysterious 'Book Prince' of Kolkata, and visit the cottage in Kodaikanal that lures book collectors with its siren song. Discover how an emperor's defeat brought illuminated manuscripts into sixteenth-century India, how a rare 1865 edition of Alice in Wonderland surfaced in an Indian bazaar, and much more. An Inky Parade is a window into the charming world of antiquarian book trade in India and around the world, as well as an ode to the book as an object of art, sure to delight every reader.

Author : Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500772983
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bog Bodies Uncovered: Solving Europe's Ancient Mystery written by Miranda Aldhouse-Green and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grisly story of the bog bodies, updated via details of archaeological discovery and crime-scene techniques Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, soft tissue, and internal organs—even their brains—survive. Most of these ancient swamp victims have been discovered in regions with large areas of raised bog: Ireland, northwest England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and northern Germany. They were almost certainly murder victims and, as such, their bodies and their burial places can be treated as crime scenes. The cases are cold, but this book explores the extraordinary information they reveal about our prehistoric past. Bog Bodies Uncovered updates Professor P. V. Glob’s seminal publication The Bog People, published in 1969, in the light of vastly improved scientific techniques and newly found bodies. Approached in a radically different style akin to a criminal investigation, here the bog victims appear, uncannily well-preserved, in full-page images that let the reader get up close and personal with the ancient past.