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A Breach of Promiseby Anne PerryISBN 0804118558 (0-8041-1855-8)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Breach of Promise'Book summary:The promises that are breached, broken, and never born in Anne Perry's rich and resonant new William Monk mystery all have to do with the roles and positions of women in Victorian society. At the center of the book is a rousing courtroom drama, as young Zillah Lambert--daughter of a wealthy, well-meaning northern businessman and his socially ambitious wife--sues an immensely gifted architect, Killian Melville. Melville, Zillah argues, failed to live up to his promise of marriage and thereby ruined her chances of making any sort of acceptable match. Private detective Monk is brought into the case by lawyer Oliver Rathbone when his client (Melville), facing financial and social ruin, still refuses to offer any reason for his dastardly conduct.
Monk's attentions are occupied elsewhere, too. Hester Latterly, the courageous nurse who worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, and whose favors Monk and Rathbone both desire, is looking after a British officer, Gabriel Sheldon, who was badly wounded and disfigured in India. Gabriel's wife, Perdita, is having trouble adjusting to her husband's broken body and spirit. "It was not Perdita's fault that she was confused and frightened," Monk muses. "She had been protected all her short life. She had not chosen to be, it was her assigned role." Monk has also promised a housemaid in the Sheldons' service that he will look for her two little nieces--deaf and deformed from birth--who were abandoned by their mother almost 20 years before. As the cases tangle and combine (perhaps a tad too coincidentally for some tastes, but, then again, real life is full of coincidences), Perry manages to show us the many ways in which women were made to pay for their place in a male-dominated society. She also delivers a touching and surprisingly suspenseful story. Other Monk books in paperback: The Silent Cry, Cain His Brother, Defend and Betray, Weighed in the Balance. --Dick Adler [via]
Cain His Brotherby Anne PerryISBN 0804115079 (0-8041-1507-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cain His Brother'Book summary:"A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction."
--Chicago Sun-Times
In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. Hired to find the missing man, William Monk puts himself into his shoes, searching for clues to Angus's fate and his vicious brother's whereabouts. Slowly, Monk inches toward the truth--and also, unwittingly, toward the destruction of his good name and livelihood. . . .
"MASTERFUL . . . DARKLY CHILLING . . . Perry eloquently delivers to her readers the flavor of Victorian England. . . . Readers will be kept entertained and guessing--right up to the final pages."
--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT FIGURED OUT, THINK AGAIN! No one can capture and bring to life the drama, excitement, and feel of Victorian England like Perry."
--Mostly Murder
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 7208050031 (7-208-05003-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Dangerous Mourningby Anne PerryISBN 0804110379 (0-8041-1037-9)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dangerous Mourning'Book summary:Inspector William Monk has his hands full when an aristocrat's daugher is stabbed to death in her own bed. He is instructed to proceed without delay, but finds his efforts hamstrung by the lingering traces of amnesia and the craven ineptitutde of his supervisor, who would love to see him fail. With the help of Hester Latterly, formerly a nurse with Florence Nightingale, Monk gropes warily through the silence and shadows, knowing that with each step he comes closer to the appalling truth....
"A richly textured, masterfully plotted, thoroughly enjoyable story."
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Dark Assassinby Anne PerryISBN 0345469305 (0-345-46930-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Death of a Strangerby Anne PerryISBN 0345440064 (0-345-44006-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Stranger'Book summary:Private enquiry agent William Monk is hired to investigate a potential case of fraud in the construction of a new railway line. His client is the fiancée of a man she fears is embroiled in the scheme, and Monk's investigation causes a strange sense of déjà vu--a former policeman afflicted with a case of amnesia concerning his prior life, Monk finds both the case and its milieu unsettlingly familiar. His case is somehow connected to the death of a railway magnate in a sleazy area of London where Monk's wife Hester, a nurse, operates a shelter for abused prostitutes. The women have been doubly victimized by an extortion scheme in which the dead man, who turns out to have been Monk's employer during his "lost" years, may have been involved. More than an ingenious way to fill in Monk's backstory, Anne Perry's newest mystery featuring the enigmatic investigator deepens the reader's understanding of an unusual and compelling protagonist and brings Victorian-era England vividly to life. --Jane Adams [via]
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Defend and Betrayby Anne PerryISBN 1560546255 (1-56054-625-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Defend and Betray'Book summary:When General Thaddeus Carlyon dies in a freak accident, his wife, Alexandria, insists she killed him, even though it means she will go to the gallows. Inspector William Monk works to break down the silence of the accused and her husband's proud family. A historical crime novel from the author of THE TWISTED ROOT and CAIN HIS BROTHER. [via]
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The Devil's Noviceby Ellis PetersISBN 0446405159 (0-446-40515-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Novice'Book summary:In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a disturbing presence. Meek and biddable by day, his sleep is rent with nightmares so violent as to earn him the nickname of "Devil's Novice". [via]
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- The Devil's Novice: ISBN 0449207013 (0-449-20701-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Devil's Novice: ISBN 0786216689 (0-7862-1668-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - The Devil's Novice: ISBN 0333351703 (0-333-35170-3)
Hardcover, Macmillan - The Devil's Novice: ISBN 0688032478 (0-688-03247-8)
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- The Devil's Novice: ISBN 0449207013 (0-449-20701-3)
El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 9685959242 (968-5959-24-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 8497592581 (84-9759-258-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The Face of a Strangerby Anne PerryISBN 156054113X (1-56054-113-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Face of a Stranger'Book summary:His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life: his memory and his entire past have vanished. Trying as best he can to hide that fact, Monk returns to work and finds himself assigned to the burtal murder of Major the Honorable Joscelin Grey, Crimean war hero and popular man about town, in his rooms in fashionable Mecklenburg Square. The exhaulted status of the victim puts any representative of the police in the precarious position of having to pry into a noble family's secrets-which in itself will be difficult for Monk, as he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else. But slowly the darkness begins to lighten as each new revelation leads Monk step by terrifying step to the answerw he seeks but dreads to find... [via]
Funeral in Blueby Anne PerryISBN 0345440021 (0-345-44002-1)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845207056 (88-452-0705-6)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Nome Della Rosa'Book summary:"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Orderby Nancy Klein MaguireISBN 158648432X (1-58648-432-X)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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- An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order: ISBN 1586483277 (1-58648-327-7)
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- An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order: ISBN 1586483277 (1-58648-327-7)
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Leper of Saint Gilesby Ellis PetersISBN 0446404373 (0-446-40437-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Leper of Saint Giles'Book summary:A savage murder interrupts an ill-fated marriage set to take place at Brother Cadfael's abbey, leaving the monk with a terrible mystery to solve. The key to the killing is hidden among the inhabitants of the Saint Giles leper colony, and Brother Cadfael must ferret out a sickness not of the body, but of a twisted mind. [via]
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The Mermaid Chairby Sue Monk KiddISBN 1585476323 (1-58547-632-3)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mermaid Chair'Book summary:Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint, who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. When Jessie is summoned home to the island to cope with her eccentric mother's seemingly inexplicable act of violence, she is living a conventional life with her husband, Hugh, a life "molded to the smallest space possible." Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is soon to take his final vows. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, with a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right and the immutable force of home and marriage. Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? Or will it alter the course of Jessie's life? What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, allow Jessie to make a marriage unto herself. Where does the yearning for soul-mated love come from? When it comes to love, what are the pulls inside a woman between the ordinary and the sublime? The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about mermaids and saints, about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body, brilliantly illuminating the awakening of a woman to her own deepest self. [via]
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The Monk: A Longman Cultural Editionby Matthew LewisISBN 1592243282 (1-59224-328-2)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monk: A Longman Cultural Edition'Book summary:"Horror in literature attains a new malignity in the work of Matthew Gregory Lewis (1773-1818), whose novel The Monk (1796) achieved marvelous popularity and earned him the nickname 'Monk' Lewis. This young author, educated in Germany and saturated with a body of wild Teuton lore unknown to Mrs. Radcliffe, turned to terror in forms more violent than his gentle predecessor had ever dared to think of; and produced as a result a masterpiece of active nightmare whose general Gothic cast is spiced with added stores of ghoulishness. The story is one of a Spanish monk, Ambrosio, who from a state of over-proud virtue is tempted to the very nadir of evil by a fiend in the guise of the maiden Matilda. . . . The novel contains some appalling descriptions such as the incantation in the vaults beneath the convent cemetery, the burning of the convent, and the final end of the wretched abbot. In the sub-plot where the Marquis de las Cisternas meets the specter of his erring ancestress, The Bleeding Nun, there are many enormously potent strokes; notably the visit of the animated corpse to the Marquis's bedside, and the cabalistic ritual whereby the Wandering Jew helps him to fathom and banish his dead tormentor. . . ." -- H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror In Literature" [via]
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Monk's Hoodby Ellis PetersISBN 0446403008 (0-446-40300-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monk's Hood'Book summary:When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow is also the woman to whom Cadfael was betrothed before he took his vows. [via]
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- Monk's Hood: ISBN 0449206998 (0-449-20699-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Monk's Hood: ISBN 0786210737 (0-7862-1073-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - Monk's Hood: ISBN 0333294106 (0-333-29410-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Monk's Hood: ISBN 0688004520 (0-688-00452-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Monk's Hood: ISBN 0446403008 (0-446-40300-8)
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- Monk's Hood: ISBN 0449206998 (0-449-20699-8)
Monk's Hood/Cassettesby Ellis PetersISBN 0787102547 (0-7871-0254-7)
Hardcover, New Star Media Inc
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The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Name Of The Rose'Book summary:"A brilliantly conceived adventure into another time" (San Francisco Chronicle) by critically acclaimed author Umberto Eco. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to find the killer. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey ("where the most interesting things happen at night") armed with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious curiosity. [via]
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- The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0156001314 (0-15-600131-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0151446474 (0-15-144647-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0307264890 (0-307-26489-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0446357200 (0-446-35720-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0816136955 (0-8161-3695-5)
Softcover, G.K. Hall - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0517448424 (0-517-44842-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0816136637 (0-8161-3663-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Name Of The Rose: ISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
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The Practice of the Presence of Godby LawrenceISBN 1577482433 (1-57748-243-3)
Hardcover, Barbour Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice of the Presence of God'Book summary:Newly updated in today's language, Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God speaks more powerfully than ever. Those who long to exprerience God in the midst of busy lives will be encouraged and inspired by this simple vision of the irresistable joy of living in the presence of God...every moment. [via]
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The Practice of the Presence of God: Conversations & Letters of Brother Lawrenceby Brother LawrenceISBN 1851681981 (1-85168-198-1)
Hardcover, Oneworld Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice of the Presence of God : Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence'Book summary:This remarkable collection of the thoughts of a seventeenth-century Carmelite friar records the simple wisdom of a man who constantly felt God's companionship. [via]
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The Practice Of The Presence Of God: With Spiritual Maximsby Lawrence, Tessa BieleckiISBN 1590302508 (1-59030-250-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice Of The Presence Of God: With Spiritual Maxims'Book summary:The Practice of the Presence of God is among the most enduringly popular of all Christian devotional works. It is a collection of conversations with a simple seventeenth-century French Carmelite monk who, through the simplest of everyday activities, was able to achieve a profound intimacy with God. Brother Lawrence's teaching has resonated with Christians for more than three hundred years, and it is fitting that it is now available in this beautiful edition with a fine full-cloth cover, a sewn binding, and a ribbon marker. [via]
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The Rose Rentby Ellis PetersISBN 0446405337 (0-446-40533-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rose Rent'Book summary:A crime mystery by the author of "The Holy Thief" and "The Potter's Field". [via]
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- The Rose Rent: ISBN 0449214958 (0-449-21495-8)
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Saint Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0333310500 (0-333-31050-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Peter's Fair'Book summary:At the annual fair of Saint Peter, an unseem ly quarrel breaks out between the local burghers and the mon ks, as to who shall benefit from the levies the fair provide s. Afterwards a merchant is found dead and Brother Cadfael i s called upon to investigate. ' [via]
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The Shifting Tideby Anne PerryISBN 0345440102 (0-345-44010-2)
Softcover, Fawcett Books
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The Silent Cryby Anne PerryISBN 0804117934 (0-8041-1793-4)
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The Sins of the Wolfby Anne PerryISBN 0804113831 (0-8041-1383-1)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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A William Monk mystery by the author of "The Hyde Park Headsman."
Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well-suited for the position of accompanying the elderly Mary Farraline on a short train journey to London. Hester's sole duty on the trip will be to make certain that her charming patient remembers to take her heart medicine. But once aboard the train, Hester finds herself not so well-suited after all. Her patient dies during the night -- of natural causes, it is assumed. Then a piece of the dead woman's jewelry turns up in Hester's possession, and she is arrested for common theft. Then an autopsy reveals that the old woman was poisoned. And suddenly Hester is charged with murder. Can private investigator William Monk find both a motive and a calculating killer amongst the snobbish Farraline clan before Hester Latterly is hung for a crime she did not commit? [via]
Slaves of Obsessionby Anne PerryISBN 1568959451 (1-56895-945-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaves of Obsession'Book summary:Slaves of Obsession moves from Victorian England to the United States on the brink of the Civil War, evoking not only the nuances of the English class system but also the fierce passions and partisan loyalties that ignited the bloodiest conflagration in American history. When Daniel Alberton, a well-born arms merchant, asks private enquiry agent William Monk to investigate an extortion attempt, the former policeman is thrust into a conflict between competing Americans, Lyman Breeland and Philo Trace, who have come to London to purchase guns for the Union and Confederacy forces respectively. Bound by honor to complete the sale of a trove of weapons he has promised to Trace, Alberton refuses Breeland's plea to change his mind. Breeland is championed by Merrit, Alberton's 16-year-old daughter, who makes an impassioned argument for the anti-slavery position. Then Alberton is brutally murdered and the arms shipment stolen, and Merrit elopes with Breeland. Monk and his wife Hester are dispatched to America to retrieve the young woman and bring her seducer back to England to face a murder trial. Hester, who was a nurse in the Crimea, comports herself admirably on the battlefield at Manassas while Monk searches for Breeland and arrests him amidst the carnage. But once back in England, Monk's investigative efforts cast doubt on Breeland's guilt and point to a killer closer to home.
Hester Monk emerges as a fascinating character in her own right. Her relationship with the enigmatic William, whose fragmented recollections (of who and what he was before the accident that erased most of his memory) still haunt him, is thoughtfully evoked. As usual, Perry handles the secondary characters with brio. Breeland, in particular, becomes in the author's capable hands a man whose obsessive devotion to the Union cause underscores his inability to return Merrit's love. As Hester tells the infatuated young woman, "To see the mass and lose the individual is not nobility. You are confusing emotional cowardice with honour.... To follow your duty when the cost in friendship is high, or even the cost in love, is a greater vision, of course. But to retreat from personal involvement, from gentleness and the giving of yourself, and choose instead the heroics of a general cause, no matter how fine, is cowardice." This sixth entry in the Monk series evokes the era in which it is set with a fine eye for details of dress, manners, décor, and culture, while skillfully unfolding the emotional and intellectual depths of both William and Hester, whose well-honed intelligence makes it clear that she, too, deserves a series of her own. --Jane Adams [via]
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St. Peter's Fairby Ellis PetersISBN 0446403016 (0-446-40301-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'St. Peter's Fair'Book summary:MysteryLarge Print EditionStylishly authentic . . . a graceful and informative case for Peters engaging herb-gardening monk. Kirkus ReviewsThe great annual Fair of Saint Peter at Shrewsbury, a high point in the citys calendar, attracts merchants from far and wide to do business. But when an unseemly quarrel breaks out between the local burghers and the monks from the Benedictine monastery as to who shall benefit from the levies the fair provides, a riot ensues. Afterwards a merchant is found dead, and Brother Cadfael is summoned from his peaceful herb garden to test his detective skills once more. [via]
A Sudden, Fearful Deathby Anne PerryISBN 0804112835 (0-8041-1283-5)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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Twisted Rootby Anne PerryISBN 0804119368 (0-8041-1936-8)
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The Virgin in the Iceby Ellis PetersISBN 0446404284 (0-446-40428-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Virgin in the Ice'Book summary:In the winter of 1139, raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester, among them an orphaned boy and his beautiful 18-year-old sister. Traveling with a young nun, they set out for Shrewsbury, but disappear somewhere in the wild countryside. Now, Brother Cadfael embarks on a dangerous quest to find them. Previously out of print. [via]
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- The Virgin in the Ice: ISBN 0449211215 (0-449-21121-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Virgin in the Ice: ISBN 0786214791 (0-7862-1479-1)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - The Virgin in the Ice: ISBN 0333329147 (0-333-32914-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan - The Virgin in the Ice: ISBN 0688016723 (0-688-01672-3)
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Weighed in the Balanceby Anne PerryISBN 0804115621 (0-8041-1562-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weighed in the Balance'Book summary:Set in the mid-1800s, this mystery brings the passionate and exotic aristocrats of a tiny German kingdom into contact with Victorian England, in particular with William Monk, the darkly romantic hero of Anne Perry's historical series. Countess Zorah Rostova first approaches Sir Oliver Rathbone with a story of murder, accusing the woman for whom an exiled prince has renounced his crown of killing him. Rathbone hires Monk to investigate, and both men are bewitched by the alluring women in the prince's court-in-exile. In pursuit of the truth, Monk follows a trail from England to Venice and then to the kingdom of Felzburg, a journey that teaches him much about the political intrigue in central Europe during those turbulent times. [via]
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Codeby Dan Brown, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618605 (84-95618-60-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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¿ Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de Mona Lisa? Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad& hasta ahora.
Antes de morir asesinado, Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda del experto en simbología Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
Un apasionante juego de claves escondidas, sorprendentes revelaciones, acertijos ingeniosos, verdades, mentiras, realidades históricas, mitos, símbolos, ritos, misterios y suposiciones en una trama llena de giros inesperados narrada con un ritmo imparable que conduce al lector hasta el secreto más celosamente guardado del inicio de nuestra era.
" Intriga y amenaza se mezclan en una de las mejores novelas de suspense que he leído jamás. Un sorprendente relato donde los enigmas se suceden a los secretos y éstos a las adivinanzas."
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" Un inteligente thriller lleno de enigmas y códigos que, sin duda, puede recomendarse con rotundo entusiasmo."
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code: El Illustrado / Illustradedby Dan Brown, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618818 (84-95618-81-8)
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Mientras se encontraba en un viaje de negocios en Paris, Robert Langdon, experto en simbologia de la universidad de Harvard, recibe una llamada urgente a media noche. Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, ha sido asesinado en el museo del Louvre. Saunière antes de morir transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
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El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto Eco, Ricardo PochtarISBN 8426411487 (84-264-1148-7)
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Lettres Des Deux Amants: Attribuees a Heloise Et Abelardby Ewald Konsgen, Heloise, Peter Abelard, Sylvain PironISBN 207077371X (2-07-077371-X)
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 2266144340 (2-266-14434-0)
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246345 (88-452-4634-5)
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