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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
PG ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie Bunker's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Answers the lingering questions surrounding Hitler's death in his bunker using unprecedented access to secret Russian archives that also detail the layout of the bunker and offer eyewitness accounts of the dictator's final days.
9) Foundation
Author
Series
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
For twelve thousand years, the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy...
10) Arkangel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The execution of a Vatican archivist within the shadow of the Kremlin exposes a conspiracy going back three centuries--to the bloody era of the Russian Tsars. Before his murder, he manages to dispatch a coded message, a warning of a terrifying threat, one tied to a secret buried within the Golden Library of Tsars, a vast and treasured archive that had vanished into history. As combative forces race for the truth behind this death and alarming discovery,...
11) Double exposure
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
David Toland, a decorated Korean War veteran, and CIA officer Lana Welles are swept into a 1960s global conspiracy when they come into the possession of evidence that suggests Hitler is still alive.
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Through more than 100 hours of exclusive interviews and some 200 photographs from Richard Carpenter's personal archive, many never published, Richard tells his story for the first time. With candor, heart, and humour, he sheds new light on the Carpenters' trials and triumphs - work that remains the gold standard for melodic pop. The definitive biography of one of the most enduring and endeared recording artists in history.
Author
Series
Culper ring volume 3
Language
English
Description
"A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, D.C., Beecher White is responsible for safekeeping the government's most important documents. . . and sometimes, it's most closely held secrets. But there are a powerful few who know his other role. Beecher is a member of the Culper Ring, a 200-year-old secret society founded by George Washington and charged with protecting the Presidency. Now the current occupant of the White House needs...