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Smoke and iron / by Caine, Rachel,author.(CARDINAL)546063;
To save the Great Library, the unforgettable characters from Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, and Ash and Quill put themselves in danger in the next thrilling adventure in the New York Times bestselling series. The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire, and words printed on paper the spark that lights rebellion, it falls to smugglers, thieves, and scholars to save a library thousands of years in the making ... if they can stay alive long enough to outwit their enemies.HL750LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Dystopian fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Alexandrian Library; Libraries; Intellectual freedom; Book burning; Insurgency;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 26
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The vanished library / by Canfora, Luciano.(CARDINAL)505589;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-106) and index.PART ONE: 1. The Pharaoh's Tomb -- 2. The Sacred Library -- 3. The Forbidden City -- 4. The Fugitive -- 5. The Universal library -- 6. I leave my books to Peleus -- 7. The Symposium -- 8. In Cage of the Muses -- 9. The Rival Library -- 10. Reappearance and Disappearance of Aristotle -- 11. The Second Visitor -- 12. War -- 13. The Third Visitor -- 14. The Library -- 15. The Fire -- 16. The Dialogue of Jon Philoponus with the Emir Amrou Ibn el-Ass while Amrou prepared to burn the Library -- PART TWO: The Sources -- 1. Gibbon -- 2. The Dialogues of Amrou -- 3. Revisions of Aristeas -- 4. Aulus Gellius -- 5. Isidore of Seville -- 6. Livy -- 7. Conjectures -- 8. Hecataeus -- 9. The Elusive Library -- 10. The Soma of Rameses -- 11. Kadesh -- 12. Strabo and Neleus -- 13. Library Traditions -- 14. Conflagrations -- 15. Epilogue.The Library of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the Ancient World, has haunted Western culture for over 2,000 years. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt--successors of Alexander the Great--had a staggering ambition: to house all of the books ever written under one roof, and the story of the universal library and its destruction still has the power to move us. But what was the library, and where was it? Did it exist at all? Contemporary descriptions are vague and contradictory. The fate of the precious books themselves is a subject of endless speculation. Canfora resolves these puzzles in one of the most unusual books of classical history ever written. He recreates the world of Egypt and the Greeks in brief chapters that marry the craft of the novelist and the discipline of the historian. Anecdotes, conversations, and reconstructions give The Vanished Library the compulsion of an exotic tale, yet Canfora bases all of them on historical and literary sources, which he discusses with great panache. As the chilling conclusion to this elegant piece of historical detective work he establishes who burned the books.
Subjects: Alexandrian Library.; Libraries; Civilization, Classical.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Spies. by Factor, Katherine,author.(CARDINAL)798022; Utomo, Gabhor,illustrator.(CARDINAL)473613;
"It is circa 400 A.D. and you are a young person living in ancient Greece. You are studying with the powerful philosopher and mathematician, Hypatia. Hypatia's formulas and inventions will change the course of history, but she can't let go of an event from the past. She needs you to travel back in time to the age of Cleopatra in order to change history so the Library of Alexandria can be saved from destruction by fire. Can you do what's needed to preserve the world's most important knowledge?"--009-012.700L
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Choose-your-own stories.; Hypatia, -415; Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.; Alexandrian Library;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The Alexandria link : a novel / by Berry, Steve,1955-(CARDINAL)340256;
"Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped."--From source other than the Library of CongressWhen his son is kidnapped, Cotton Malone discovers a link to a conspiracy involving the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria, a priceless treasury of thousands of ancient manuscripts that vanished more than 1,500 years ago.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Biographies.; Malone, Cotton (Fictitious character); Alexandrian Library; Kidnapping; Booksellers and bookselling; Antiquarian booksellers;
Available copies: 81 / Total copies: 88
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Alexandria / by Davis, Lindsey.(CARDINAL)343920;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Falco, Marcus Didius, 41-; Alexandrian Library; Libraries; Murder; Romans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Alexandria / by Davis, Lindsey.(CARDINAL)343920;
In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life.
Subjects: Fiction.; Falco, Marcus Didius, 41-; Alexandrian Library; Libraries; Murder; Romans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Alexandria : a Marcus Didius Falco novel / by Davis, Lindsey.(CARDINAL)343920;
For Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, Alexandria holds fascination and a hint of fear. Beautiful, historic and famously unruly, the great cosmopolitan city wears Roman rule lightly. While his wife, Helena Justina, wants to see the Lighthouse and the Pyramids, Falco has a mission at the Great Library that soon turns out to involve much more than stock-taking its innumerable scrolls. A mysterious death in the world-famous library bring him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life. With forensic science in its infancy, even an illegal autopsy fails to find real answers.To solve the crime for the Roman Prefect - if indeed it is a crime - Falco will have to draw on his own doggedness and intuition, at first supported only by Helena's commonsense and the loyal backup of her brother Aulus, who goes under cover as a student among the in-fighting academics. The philosophers lust after fame and fortune so ruthlessly there is soon another terrifying death, this time at the royal zoo. At the same time, his original innocent mission is overshadowed by the machinations of his Uncle Fulvius, who is living in Alexandria with his partner Cassius for obscure reasons. Their involvement in local affairs already seems shady when they are joined by their crony, Falco's father, Geminus, a man well known for disreputable business practices. If the irrepressible Pa has had any hand in what has gone wrong at the Library, Falco knows he stands no chance...
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Falco, Marcus Didius, 41-; Alexandrian Library; Libraries; Murder; Romans;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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We sled with dragons / by London, C. Alexander.(CARDINAL)352895; Duddle, Johnny,illustrator.;
"T.V. obsessed twins Oliver and Celia Navel reluctantly go on their final adventure--this time to the North Pole in search of the long-lost Library of Alexandria"--730LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Alexandrian Library; Adventure stories; Explorers; Siblings; Twins; Television; Siblings.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The Library of Alexandria : centre of learning in the ancient world / by MacLeod, Roy M.(CARDINAL)521847;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.Introduction : Alexandria in history and myth / Roy MacLeod -- Before Alexandria : libraries in the Ancient Near East / D.T. Potts -- Alexandria : the umbilicus of the ancient world / Wendy Brazil -- Cloistered bookworms in the chicken-coop of the muses : the ancient library of Alexandria / Robert Barnes -- Aristotle's works : the possible origins of the Alexandria collection / R.G. Tanner -- Doctors in the library : the strange tale of Apollonius the bookworm and other stories / John Vallance -- The theatre of Paphos and the theatre of Alexandria : some first thoughts / J.R. Green -- Scholars and students in the Roman East / Samuel N.C. Lieu -- The Neoplatonists and the mystery schools of the Mediterranean / Patricia Cannon Johnson -- Alexandria and its Medieval legacy : the book, the monk and the rose / J.O. Ward.
Subjects: Alexandrian Library.; Civilization, Classical.; Libraries;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The meaning of the library : a cultural history / by Allan, David,1964-author.(CARDINAL)687495; Billington, James H.,author.(CARDINAL)150450; Crawford, Alice,1958-editor of compilation.(CARDINAL)385446; Crawford, Robert,1959-author.(CARDINAL)361854; Darnton, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)163593; Enniss, Stephen,author.(CARDINAL)687863; Gameson, Richard,author.(CARDINAL)374909; Hall, Edith,1959-author.(CARDINAL)531561; Marcus, Laura,author.(CARDINAL)381139; Pettegree, Andrew,author.(CARDINAL)186739; Price-Wilkin, W. John(William John),1956-author.(CARDINAL)436289; Sutherland, John,1938-author.(CARDINAL)726937; Warner, Marina,1946-author.(CARDINAL)137262;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. Generously illustrated, "The Meaning of the Library" examines this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, contributors -- including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust -- present a cultural history of the library. Whether relishing an account of the Alexandrian Library or a look at the stylish railway libraries of nineteenth-century England, readers will find a survey of the library through time. Here, too, are the imagined libraries of fiction, poetry, and film, from Scheherazade's stories to "The Name of the Rose" and beyond.
Subjects: Libraries and society.; Libraries.; Libraries;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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