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The smashing scroll

When the foul Spellbinder sends a giant scroll to imprison the entire Earth, even the Librarian may be powerless to stop its vast, unrolling page.

The Metropolitans

2017
"Meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the day Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, four thirteen-year-olds help track down a missing book of Arthurian legends that may hold the key to preventing a second attack on American soil."--OCLC.

Brother Hugo and the bear

After painstakingly handcrafting a replacement copy of a library book, a medieval monk tries to protect it from a hungry bear with a taste for literature. Includes historical note on illuminated manuscripts.

Brother Hugo and the bear

2014
After painstakingly handcrafting a replacement copy of a library book, a medieval monk tries to protect it from a hungry bear with a taste for literature.

Walter Dean Myers

2014
Walter Dean Myers had trouble pronouncing words in high school, so he wrote them down instead.

Lord Byron's novel

the evening land
2005
Presents a story that deals with the supposed discovery of a novel by Lord Byron that was hidden away by his daughter Ada about Ali, the illegitimate son of the demonic Lord Sane, who was taken from his life in Albania to be raised as a proper English gentleman.

The Codex Nuttall

a picture manuscript from ancient Mexico : the Peabody Museum facsimile
1975
Presents eighty-six full-color reproductions of a pre-Columbian Mexican manuscript that shows heroes, temples, kings, gods, sacrifices, and more.

Brigid of Kildare

a novel
2009
Alexandra Patterson, an appraiser of medieval relics, travels to Kildare to examine a reliquary box believed to have belonged to the revolutionary Saint Brigid, a fifth-century Irish priest and bishop, and finds inside a beautiful illuminated manuscript, the contents of which could alter the history of Christianity.

An illuminated life

Belle da Costa Greene's journey from prejudice to privilege
2007

Moving target

2001
When Serena Charters inherits a centuries-old manuscript, she finds herself caught between two worlds who are fighting to keep the past a secret.

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