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In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
Author
Series
Bibliophile mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When her best friend, Robin, gives bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra to appraise and restore, Brooklyn hopes to re-create a beautiful book and spice up her love life. But before she can get started, Robin's apartment is ransacked and the great guy she recently met lies murdered in her bed. Now Robin is the number-one suspect. Luckily Brooklyn's boyfriend, British security expert Derek Stone, is ready to help.
Author
Series
Bibliophile mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright is attending the world-renowned Edinburgh Book Fair when her ex, Kyle McVee, shows up with a bombshell. He has an original copy of a scandalous text that could change history and humiliate the beloved British monarchy. Trying to get Kyle's story out of her mind, Brooklyn takes a nighttime tour of the city. Unfortunately, the first landmark contains a real dead body: Kyle's. Now Brooklyn is a suspect, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
RBA Libros
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
"En plena madrugada, Hanna Heath, una prestigiosa conservadora de manuscritos medievales, recibe una llamada: la Haggadah de Sarajevo, uno de los libros más excepcionales y misteriosos del mundo, ha reaparecido tras permanecer oculto varios años y las Naciones Unidas la reclaman para que compruebe su estado. Sin dudarlo, acepta el encargo y viaja a Sarajevo. Cuando Hanna procede a su estudio, descubre entre sus páginas una serie de extrañas muestras:...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her father's death, Rose Newlin finds solace in her work as a book restorer. Then, one rainy Connecticut afternoon, a struggling painter appears at her door. William Lomazzo brings with him a sixteenth-century treatise on art, which Rose quickly identifies as a palimpsest: a document written over a hidden diary that had purposely been scraped away. Yet the restoration sparks an unforeseen challenge when William--a married man--and Rose...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Her patients might smell like mold and have spines of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can't be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn's friend and former employer, who she finds lying in a pool of his own blood. With his final breath, Abraham leaves Broklyn a cryptic message, "Remember the devil," and smiles as she takes possession of his priceless and supposedly cursed copy...
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