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23) Perdita
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Researcher Garth Hellyer interviews Marged Brice, who claims to be 134 years old and tells him she is prevented from dying by the presence of a young spirit, Perdita, and as Garth investigates her history, he finds himself lost in his own past.
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"Winding through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey, the battlefields of Belgium during World War I, and the faded Knickerbocker Hotel in 1960s Hollywood, The Electric Hotel follows the intertwined fates of the cinematographer Claude Ballard and his muse, Sabine Montrose"--
28) O' artful death
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Boston art historian Sweeney St. George investigates the gravestone of a girl who drowned under mysterious circumstances one hundred years earlier, setting in motion a series of events that places Sweeney in the path of a present-day killer.
29) The Sherlockian
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Literary researcher and Sherlock Holmes enthusiast Harold White is shocked when a scholar who discovered Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary is murdered, while in 1890s London, Conan Doyle hunts a serial killer to prove his superiority to his famous character.
31) The book of life
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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...
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"When art historian Cate Adamson leaves her troubled family to complete her doctorate in New York, she finds herself dismissed by her sexist advisor and becomes increasingly desperate to salvage her career. When she finds a hidden painting in a university basement, possibly a seventeenth-century masterpiece, she takes the painting to Spain, against her better judgment. There she meets Antonio, an impoverished nobleman struggling to restore his family's...
33) The curiosities
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Encouraged by her husband to look for a job when fertility problems start to become an obsession, Nell Parker takes command of an art colony full of eccentrics.
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"An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt's Possession and Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with...
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"It is the 100th anniversary of St. Patrick's College and Professor Lizzie Manning is tasked with creating a centennial exhibition to celebrate the occasion. Her research takes her to Bologna, where the daughter of the college's founder married an Italian prince with a family collection dating back to the Renaissance. Among the oddities and works of art Lizzie finds ancient alligators, old master paintings, unicorn tusks, and rarities from around...
36) Dry heat
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Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the victim’s missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for David Mapstone, history-professor-turned-Maricopa-County-deputy-sheriff. That is, if he can get past a forced partnership with rival cold-case expert Sgt. Kate Vare and the FBI’s strange stonewalling about the details of the agent’s killing. To complicate matters, there are the crimes...
38) Timeline
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A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War
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It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous album cover. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed...
40) Aura
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A young historian, Felipe Montero, accepts a position editing the memoirs of General Llorente for the elderly widow, Consuelo. Working at her home, Felipe meets and falls in love with Consuelo's beautiful young niece, Aura. But things are not as they appear and Felipe soon discovers the truth behind Consuelo's facination with medicinal plants and youth.
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