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English
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The final novel by Charles Dickens, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was unfinished at the time of his death in 1870. The novel revolves around John Jasper, choirmaster and opium addict, who is the guardian of his orphaned nephew Edwin Drood. Before the death of his parents, Edwin was promised to marry Rosa Bud, another orphan, but their affections have cooled upon reaching adulthood. Rosa has also attracted the affections of Jasper, her teacher, as...
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Series
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English
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A group of scientists has found a way to imbue autistic children with an incredible power. While they hope this will lead to world peace, it has the potential to destroy the world instead. Sigma Force must find a way to stop the scientists, before it's too late.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Way Things Work, whose books have won numerous awards and sold millions of copies-and delighted readers young and old alike-this is a lively, detailed, and lavishly illustrated account of the building of a cathedral, and the community around it, through many decades.
Caldecott Medal winner David Macaulay's imaginary Cathedral of Chutreaux remains a touchstone for budding architects as well as those interested in medieval history....
Author
Series
Church of England volume 6
Publisher
Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Charles Ashworth, the bishop of Starbridge, is a man of great accomplishment, confidence, and conviction. Within the Church, he has earned a reputation as a strong, efficient, no-nonsense bishop. Outside the Church, he is known as “Anti-Sex Ashworth.” But when Ashworth's beloved wife dies, a profound crisis of his faith begin. unexpectedly and with brutal force. As bereavement overwhelms his spiritual equilibrium, his strict morality is quickly...
8) Cathedral
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books For Young Readers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition
[Revised edition].
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated look at the step-by-step building of a thirteenth-century Gothic cathedral.
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Overweight with acne-prone skin, twelve-year-old Hannah always feels unsure of herself, but when a wooden statue of Jesus goes missing from a cathedral, she discovers a special connection with both the statue and a larger force.
11) Built to last
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Language
English
Description
Reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--
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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
In this short, spellbinding book, international bestselling author Ken Follett describes the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened to destroy one of the greatest cathedrals in the world--the Notre-Dame de Paris. Follett then tells the story of the cathedral, from its construction to the role it has played across time and history, and he reveals the influence that the Notre-Dame had upon cathedrals around the world...
15) Catedrales
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Edition
Primera edicion.
Language
Español
Description
Una adolescente aparece quemada y descuartizada en un descampado. Treinta a?nos despu?es, el crimen sigue sin aclararse y su familia y entorno se han desmoronado. Hace treinta a?nos, en un terreno bald?io de un barrio tranquilo, apareci?o descuartizado y quemado el cad?aver de una adolescente. La investigaci?on se cerr?o sin culpables y su familia -de clase media educada, formal y cat?olica- silenciosamente se fue resquebrajando. Pero, pasado ese...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
One month after the end of WWII, Asher, a former assassin in the Resistance burdened by grief and guilt, arrives at le Ch�ateau Guerin, where he discovers the redemptive power of art as he helps create glass windows for the bombed cathedrals of France.
One month after the end of World War II, amid the jubilation in the streets of France, there are throngs of people stunned by the recovery work ahead. Every bridge, road, and rail line, every church...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Language
English
Description
At the University of Barchester, where Arthur Prescott works as an English professor, his one respite is his time spent nestled in the Barchester Cathedral library, nurturing his secret obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral. When American Bethany Davis arrives in Barchester charged with the task of digitizing the library's manuscripts, Arthur's tranquility is broken. He sets out...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Little John is proud of his mother's work as a stonecutter for a cathedral called "Big John," but struggles to understand the importance of spending so much time on one stone that no one will know Momma cut. Includes a history of New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Author
Series
Bestseller) volume 608/1
Publisher
Debolsillo
Edition
2a edition en U.S.A.
Language
Español
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