Matthew Pearl
1) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
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Language
English
Description
Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the 19th century draws to an end, two bookaneers are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete to steal Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever.
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Series
Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Dante Club novels (Matthew Pearl) volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The first graduating class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals.