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1) Piranesi
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
Author
Series
Jack West Jr. novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Golden Capstone atop the Great Pyramid at Giza offered protection from the global flooding and scorching sun that occurs every 4,500 years due to the Tartarus Rotation solar event. But Alexander the Great broke the Capstone into seven pieces and hid them in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, in 2006, another Tartarus Rotation is due, and whoever places the reconstructed Capstone on the pyramid in time will gain absolute earthly power.
...Author
Series
Jack West Jr. novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Soldier Jack West, Jr., and his elite team work to counter the efforts of a dark cabal that has been steadily undermining their past efforts with the intent of staging a catastrophic attack.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of a man buried deep in the Arctic ice, Dr. Kate Philo and her team bring him back to life in their Boston lab, igniting a media firestorm that forces them to decide how far they are willing to go to protect their experiment.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Spending the summer after sixth grade at his great-uncle's oceanside museum, Thatcher and local girl Trudy team up to help Shoal, one of the people of Atlantis cursed by a witch whose head still survives, and who has an army of monstrous creatures helping her.
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The city of Ora is watching. Anima is an extrasensory human tasked with surveilling and protecting Ora's citizens via a complex living network called the Gleaming. Although ær world is restricted to what æ can see and experience through the Gleaming, Anima takes pride and comfort in keeping Ora safe from harm. When a mysterious outsider enters the city carrying a cabinet of curiosities from around with the world with a story attached to each item,...
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders"--
11) The sign
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
13) Piranesi
Author
Publisher
Salamandra Narrativa/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Dentro del dédalo de corredores hay un océano aprisionado en el que las olas retumban y las mareas inundan los aposentos. Pero Piranesi no tiene miedo: comprende las embestidas del mar igual que el patrón del laberinto, mientras explora los límites de su mundo y avanza, con la ayuda de un...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Restless after ten years with P.T. Barnum's American Museum, Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, is asked by the humbug king to discern the activities of a mysterious veiled woman who has captured the obsessions of those she meets.
15) World of wonder
Author
Publisher
Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An ant on a leaf! A new friend at the beach! Wonder Baby says, "Wow! Whoa! You're a part of me I don't yet know." Even when confronted with injustice in the world or unkindness at the park, Wonder Baby learns that wonder is the root of empathy and love. Wonder Baby chooses to love everything alive. With lyrical text by activist and award-winning documentarian Valarie Kaur and vibrant illustrations by Cynthia Alonso, World of Wonder encourages young...
Author
Series
Seven wonders volume 2
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The adventure continues as Jack and his friends travel to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the pulse-pounding second title in the Seven Wonders series.
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