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Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
He saved the Catholic Church from a fundamentalist radical in Angels & Demons and exposed the world's greatest cover-up in The Da Vinci Code. Now, symbologist and Harvard professor Robert Langdon returns to uncover another mystery. Called to Washington D.C., Langdon must investigate the centuries-old secrets of the Freemasons. However, with treachery around every corner, will Langdon's eidetic memory and insurmountable knowledge of history be able...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science" -- vendor summary.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
Author
Language
English
Description
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything, but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl. Imperious self-made Mab, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world's top security agencies ever since making a quantum computing breakthrough. She's also an agoraphobe. When her mother's disappearance is linked to a plot to assassinate the country's first viable female presidential candidate, she's forced out of her safe zone. Drawn into a labyrinth of messages encrypted by Emily Dickinson and century-old codes tucked inside the Beale Cipher, Salem begins...
Author
Series
Codebreakers (Roseanna White) volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
During the Great War, Margot spends her days deciphering intercepted messages, until a sudden loss turns her world upside down. Drake returns wounded from the field, followed by a destructive enemy. Immediately smitten with Margot, Drake convince attempts to convince her that sometimes life's answers lie in the heart.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing--for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed. As Mary's gripping tale of rebellion and betrayal is revealed to [amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas, she] faces events in her own life that require letting go of everything she thought she knew--about herself, about loyalty,...
10) Mercy's chase
Author
Series
Salem's cipher novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When agoraphobic genius Salem Wiley lands her dream job as an FBI cryptanalyst, she vows never to return to the witch hunt underworld, where ancient secrets encrypted by hunted women have the power to rewrite history. Her resolve disappears when sweet Mercy Mayfair, the child she is pledged to protect, is kidnapped. With the help of the enigmatic Agent Lucan Stone, Salem is forced to code hunt in Ireland, England, and Scotland to keep the girl alive....
11) Fatal code
Author
Series
Snap Agency volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the global race for space domination, a cryptologist must overcome his greatest mistake to help the granddaughter of a nuclear physicist decipher the clues to a top secret nuclear project before it falls into the hands of America's enemies"--
Elinor Mitchell, the granddaughter of one of the scientists from the Los Alamos Five project, discovers that she has highly sensitive information on the project in her possession-- and a target on her back....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction chronicle of the courageous efforts of remarkable young women recruited by the US government to crack German and Japanese military codes during World War II."--Provided by publisher.
13) The testament
Author
Series
Bravo Shaw novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, a hidden splinter sect of the Franciscans has guarded secrets that could transform the world. Now the safety of those secrets--and much more--depends on one man. Braverman 'Bravo' Shaw always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies mysteriously does Bravo discover the enormity of his father's life as a high-ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatines. For more than eight hundred years, the Order has preserved...
Author
Series
Codebreakers (Roseanna White) volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Zivon Marin was one of Russia's top cryptographers until the October Revolution tore apart his world. Forced to flee to England after speaking out against Lenin, Zivon is driven by a growing anger and determined to offer his services to the Brits. But never far from his mind is his brother, whom Zivon fears died in the train crash that separated them. Lily Blackwell sees the world best through the lens of a camera and possesses unsurpassed skill...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the "Adam...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this picture book biography, young readers will learn all about Elizebeth Friedman (1892-1980), a brilliant American code breaker who smashed Nazi spy rings, took down gangsters, and created the CIA's first cryptology unit. Her story came to light when her secret papers were finally declassified in 2015. From thwarting notorious rumrunners with only paper and pencil to "counter-spying into the minds and activities of" Nazis, Elizebeth held a pivotal...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase...
19) Heir to the Jedi
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Series
Language
English
Description
Challenged by ruthless Imperial bodyguards, death-dealing enemy battleships, merciless bounty hunters, and monstrous brain-eating parasites, Luke Skywalker plunges head-on into a high-stakes espionage operation that will push his abilities as a Rebel fighter and would-be Jedi to the limit.
20) Lady codebreaker
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Washington, D.C., 1958: Grace Feldman is hiding a dangerous secret in her home -- not to mention countless others in her head. Grace, a would-be Shakespeare scholar with no mathematical background, learns the art of codebreaking on the fly and becomes one of the country's most potent secret weapons, decrypting intercepted messages during World War I, Prohibition and World War II. From her own father to her mad and mercurial first boss, from Army...
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