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OBSIDIAN BOOKS
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"The Cloak of Naivety" is an enthralling mystery series that follows the adventures of art historian Amelia Reed and her husband, FBI Special Agent Marcus Kane, as they unravel the secrets of a shadowy organization known as "The Eternalists." The series begins with "The Illusionist's Gambit," set five years after the events of "Brush with Oblivion," where the couple finds themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse when a series of audacious...
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English
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"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking masterpiece that challenges societal norms and explores the complex dynamics of marriage and identity. Set in 19th-century Norway, the play revolves around Nora Helmer, a seemingly content wife and mother, and her husband Torvald. As the plot unfolds, the audience is drawn into a web of secrets, lies, and personal revelations. Nora's journey from a docile, doll-like existence...
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Series:
Forgery of magic volume 1
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
"To Finn Voy, magic is two things: a knife to hold under the chin of anyone who crosses her...and a disguise she shrugs on as easily as others pull on cloaks. As a talented faceshifter, it's been years since Finn has seen her own face, and that's exactly how she likes it. But when Finn gets caught by a powerful mobster, she's forced into an impossible mission: steal a legendary treasure from Castallan's royal palace or be stripped of her magic forever....
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Publisher:
Emily Bestler Books / Atria
Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
Description:
"The single greatest work of art in the world is not in the Louvre or The Met, or in any private collection. In fact, its whereabouts are unknown. Once in a long while, a child is born possessing the rarest of gifts, the innate ability to feel impossible beauty, to recognize priceless works of art. When such a child is discovered, a 250-year-old secret organization called Our World trains them to acquire the greatest works of art through theft, bribery,...
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Publisher:
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
The sparsely populated Arctic is no stranger to murder. The fourth in the Meg Harris series follows Meg's adventures into the Canadian Arctic as she searches for the truth about the disappearance of her father when she was a child. Many years ago, her father's plane had gone missing in the Arctic and he was never seen again. What happened on that fateful flight? Thirty-six years later, her mother receives some strange Inuit drawings that suggest he...
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Publisher:
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date:
2000
Language:
English
Description:
Published to coincide with the major 2 part BBC1 series (Autumn 2000) of the same name, War Behind the Wire focuses on the capture, interrogation, the comradeship of camp life, escape planning and forgery techniques, tunnelling, the thrill of life on the run, re-capture and punishment, the joy of liberation. All these experiences and more are vividly described by former POWs of the Second World War and their German camp guards, in War Behind the Wire....
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Publisher:
Wolf's Moon
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
The White Wolf Prophecy has been handed down through thousands of years through the O'Hara Clan as a forgery. No one knows who penned it, no one knows where the real scroll is, or even if it still exists. However, there is one place that may hold the scroll of the original White Wolf Prophecy. The Hall of Records is a mythological storehouse of Earth's history and knowledge. Those who seek it say a legend locates it beneath the Great Sphinx on the...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
In 1958, a young Bible scholar stumbles upon a version of the Gospel of Mark far older than that recorded in the New Testament. Unfortunately, his discovery brings him nothing but vilification and accusations of forgery. Eventually, the Secret Gospel simply disappears. Fifty-one years later, the scholar is dead, the victim of an apparent heart attack. However, evidence found in his room, coupled with a letter to Cairo-based journalist Alex Fisher,...
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Publisher:
Word by Word Press
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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A True Story that Reads Like Fiction In 1856, young Moses Shapira entered the Jaffa Gate of old Jerusalem, determined to make his fortune any way he could. By 1872, he was widely recognized as the foremost antiquarian dealer in Europe. Tourists from around the world came to his shop in the Street of the Christians. Museums fought to buy his Moabite figures and pots, excavated with the help of Bedouin tribes, deep in the caves above the Wadi Mujib...
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Publisher:
Talonbooks
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
In this prequel within a sequel, Diminuenda discovers that she stands to win a vast inheritance from her estranged father, the inimitable Minor, if she travels into the past and collects" a number of objects d'art. The cheeky diva travels to classical Greece, becoming the subject of the very painting she must steal as well as the focus of a Platonic dialogue. In ancient Rome, she dines with Emperor Tiberius and several Latin poets at his notorious...
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Publisher:
Basic Books
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
"Habsburgs ruled much of Europe for centuries. From modest origins as minor German nobles, the family used fabricated documents, invented genealogies, savvy marriages, and military conquest on their improbable ascent, becoming the continent's most powerful dynasty. By the mid-fifteenth century, the Habsburgs controlled of the Holy Roman Empire, and by the early sixteenth century, their lands stretched across the continent and far beyond it. But in...
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Publisher:
Drusilla Swan
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
3 steamy MFM pairings featuring dominant werewolf billionaires and their innocent fated mates. Nothing will stop these powerful shifter CEOs from claiming the woman who belongs to them.All of the Mating Series books are standalone stories with a HEA. Each book can be read independently in any order.**BOOK 1: Owned by the Billionaires**Fiona Bell will do anything to become a successful painter, even if it means working as a maid and practically being...
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Series:
Lacey Doyle Cozy Mystery volume 11
Publisher:
Fiona Grace
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"A great story of murder, romance, new beginnings, love, friendships and a wonderful cascade of mystery." --Amazon reviewer (regarding Murder in the Manor) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ FATE OF THE FABERGE (A LACEY DOYLE COZY MYSTERY-BOOK 11) is the eleventh book in a charming new cozy mystery series which begins with MURDER IN THE MANOR (Book #1), a #1 Bestseller with over 100 five-star reviews-and a free download! Lacey Doyle, 39 years old and freshly divorced,...
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Publisher:
Skyhorse
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
In Breaking van Gogh, James Grundvig investigates the history and authenticity of van Gogh's iconic Wheat Field with Cypresses, currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Relying on a vast array of techniques from the study of the painter's biography and personal correspondence to the examination of the painting's style and technical characteristics, Grundvig proves that "the most expensive purchase" housed in the Met is a...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Renowned bone detective Bill Brockton and his intrepid assistant, Miranda, are about to get immersed in murder and intrigue in Avignon, France, home of the popes for most of the fourteenth century. But first, in this artful prequel to The Inquisitor's Key, other mischief is afoot in the ancient walled city. Inspector René Descartes of the French National Police is roused from a deep sleep to investigate a break-in at the Petit Palais, Avignon's museum...