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Summary: One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries--a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep within the vaults of Tokyo. The book: William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. This "travelogue" follows the trail of the Folio's remarkable journey and Shakespeare's cross-cultural future as Asian buyers enter their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2009
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Summary: Traces the scandalous murder of a Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 COLCollins, Paul
Summary: A narrative history of the origins of Western civilization argues that Europe was transformed in the tenth century from a continent rife with violence and ignorance to a continent on the rise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.1 COLCollins, Paul
Summary: Describes the personal and professional life of the master of the horror behind "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and other classic works, including a discussion of his rocky relationship with his wealthy adoptive father and his time spent working as an editor and reviewer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POE, EDGAR ALLAN COLCollins, Paul
Contents: The wild boy -- Fallen from the sky -- Dear chromophone -- Safety in numbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004