manuscripts

Thirteen-year-old Max Tilt discovers the unfinished and unpublished manuscript of his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne, which reveals that everything he wrote was not fiction but fact. Together, Max and his cousin Alex set about finding the treasure in this last manuscript of Verne's, hoping it can save Max's mother and his home--but they have a rival in the strange man Spencer Niemand, who has spent his life working to unlock the clues in Verne's fiction.

Thirteen-year-old Max Tilt has found his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished manuscript, "The Lost Treasures," and now together with the story of Verne's impossible recovery from a gunshot wound, Max and his cousin Alex think they can use the manuscript to discover the key to a cure for their seriously ill friend. It will take a race around the world to collect the magical healing elements, with adventure at every turn.

Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.

Explores the mysterious work of seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes, and examines his mathematical theories and his understanding of the order and mystery of the cosmos.

Series 1. Speeches, debates, and interviews. v.1. 1841-46. v.2. 1847-54. v.3. 1855-63. v.4. 1864-80. v.5. 1881-95.

"This generously illustrated documentary collection explores in full the scope of the Dracula phenomenon, from the folkloric origins of the vampire legend to its unending legacy as a vital influence on the literary and performing arts, not to mention the Romanian tourist industry."--back cover.

Presents the aphoristic thoughts, observations, and meditations noted by American poet Robert Frost in small pocket pads and school theme books he kept throughout his life to record his impressions of a wide range of topics.

Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.