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From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the...
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2023
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English
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Struggling to balance the expectations of her immigrant mother with her own deep ambivalence about her place in the world, seventeen-year-old Ocean Sun takes her savings and goes off the grid. A haunting and romantic novel about family, friendship, philosophy, fitting in, and love from Amy Zhang, the acclaimed author of Falling into Place and This Is Where the World Ends. Ocean Sun has always felt an enormous pressure to succeed. After struggling...
4. Sanctus
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When a man performs a dangerous, symbolic act on the mountain known as the Citadel, a Vatican-like city-state that towers above the city of Ruin in contemporary Turkey, a deadly chain of events is set in motion that could destroy the certainties of modern life.
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English
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4 stars
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"A gripping historical mystery for fans of Kate Morton and Natasha Lester's The Paris Seamstress, The Cartographer's Secret follows a young woman's quest to heal a family rift as she becomes entangled in one of Australia's greatest historical puzzles"--
"The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home--hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father's obsession with the great Australian explorer...
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Ivy Press
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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This beatutiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are books that changed the course of history. Pored over by rulers, explorers, and adventures these books were used to build empires, wage wars, encourage diplomacy, and nurture trade. Written by Philip Parker, an authority on the history of maps, this book brings these fascinating artefacts to life, offering a...
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Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Meet Fizban the Fabulous: doddering archmage, unlikely hero of the war of the Lace, divine avatar of a dragon-god, and your guide to the mysteries of dragonkind in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons."--
Fizban the Fabulous, a doddering archmage and divine avatar of a dragon-god, is your guide to the mysteries of dragonkind in the world of Dungeons & Dragons. As he reveals the truth of the First World and introduces the family of gem dragons, players...
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In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognize, even to envy, a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion....
14. The Cartographer
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4th Estate
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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An amazingly bold, inventive and enchanting debut. Set in the 1950s, a 10-year-old boy witnesses a murder when he is spying through a window of a strange house. In the following weeks he comes to map out all the significant adventures he has in the labyrinthine city trying to make sure he doesn't cross the path of the murderer, who he believes wishes to silence and dispose of him. Comics and superheroes inform his strategies for avoiding the bogeyman,...
15. The Cartographer
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Next Chapter
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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While exploring a cave with his friend, 16-year-old Nathan stumbles upon someone unexpected: Science Officer Satou of The Explorers' League.Satou is equally surprised, and after Nathan breaks through the security barrier, he does the only thing he can and takes Nathan with him, forever changing the balance of the universe.Nathan is introduced to the Consortium: an intergalactic league of explorers, scientists, soldiers and diplomats. He also discovers...
16. The cartogaphers
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
©2023
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Ocean Wu moves to New York City to start college, but she defers her enrollment, keeping it a secret from her immigrant mother, and instead uses the time to deal with her ambivalence about her place in the world.
Seventeen-year-old Ocean Sun defers her acceptance to the university of her immigrant mother's dreams and moves from the Midwest to New York City to live off her own modest savings. There she meets Constantine Brave, and...
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maritime
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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In a future reshaped by climate change, elderly cartographer Charles faces an impossible task: creating a new world atlas without satellite technology. As he traverses altered landscapes, Charles stumbles upon a secret society preserving forgotten stories and geographies of the old world. His mission transforms into a dual quest-to map the new world accurately and reconstruct the planet's fragmented history from hidden places and lost maps. "The Cartographer's...
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Andrews UK
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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Four short stories from the Land of the Three Seas casting a light on the early career of Benor Dorfinngil. The trials and tribulations of a young cartographer; this book features duels, savage halfmen, gassy beer, blood feuds and most dangerous of all, beautiful women.