Costume ; Costume -- History
Cop. 2, v.1-2 bound in 4 vols
The year is 1880, and Jack Baker is a young, driven student at Harvard University for Engineers. In this America, industry depends on "Creation" magic rather than machines, and most engineers are train repairmen, not inventors like Jack. Even his Creationist friend Clare thinks Jack's genius is going to waste at Harvard. There is one man who knows how to put Jack to use, however: famous novelist and sometimes spy Ellis Graveworthy, who wants Jack to come with him...
Excerpt: It is one of the commonplaces of the received economic theory that work is irksome. Many a discussion proceeds on this axiom that, so far as regards economic matters, men desire above all things to get the goods produced by labor and to avoid the labor by which the goods are produced. In a general way the common?sense opinion is well in accord with current theory on this head. According to the common?sense?ideal, the economic beatitude lies in an unrestrained co...
English poetry ; American poetry
French language
Short fiction about bizarre mental health disorders.
What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare.
Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature
When Skyla looks at a person’s shadow she sees through it and into another world. She can see people’s fears, desires, their past sins—all as swimming, living creatures. This has attracted unwanted attention from the theocracy as well as a witch hunter who intends to capture her by whatever means possible. When she disappears, it raises more questions and an unlikely search party is formed.
Colin Byrne is a pickpocket, an artist, and an occasional consultant for the police. He’s also an ex-felon, an initiate into the feral, unspoken magic that only prisoners know: how to vanish, how to tell fortunes, how to steal souls. Now the man who put him in prison wants him to return to Railburg State Correctional Facility to help investigate a case. Some things at Railburg haven’t changed. His protégé Noel is still the best ink artist in the prison, and their ment...