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Jacopo della Quercia

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Dante, Machiavelli, Alexandre Dumas, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne.

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JACOPO DELLA QUERCIA is an award-winning educator, essayist, and novelist. His work has been featured on BBC America, Business Insider, CNN Money, ​Folger Magazine, The Huffington Post, Reader's Digest, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Slate, and Princeton University's Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, among others.

As a writer, Jacopo strives to present otherwise obscure scholarly subjects in a manner more easily accessible and enjoyable for all audiences: a practice he honed in the classroom. His novels are The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy and its sequel, License to Quill , with many more to follow!
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At the Mountains of Madness by Jacopo della Quercia
"Great read aloud for the whole family! I actually enjoyed this so much that I plan to bring it in as a fun treat for my high schoolers. Great for upper elementary and middle, but enjoyable for the older crowd. And, like other “choose your own adventu" Read more of this review »
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“Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death.”
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“What does it do?” “I don’t know.” Robert shrugged. “It was on the original Roosevelt desk. We think it fired a pistol concealed beneath the tabletop.”
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“The office's olive green walls with gold accents gave the room the charm of a poker table from the Old West”
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The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy by Jacopo della Quercia Jacopo della QuerciaBased on real life conspiracy theories, The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy follows a globetrotting President William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln as they try to unravel a mystery circa the era of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
 
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“What does it do?” “I don’t know.” Robert shrugged. “It was on the original Roosevelt desk. We think it fired a pistol concealed beneath the tabletop.”
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Jacopo Quercia Tory wrote: "Hi Jacopo,

I see you are from Albany, NY. We are practically neighbors. I live a few miles from Syracuse, NY.

Tory Allyn"


Ah, wonderful! I love Syracuse. (The opera there is fantastic!)


message 4: by Tory

Tory Allyn Hi Jacopo,

I see you are from Albany, NY. We are practically neighbors. I live a few miles from Syracuse, NY.

Tory Allyn


Jacopo Quercia Likewise! Thanks!


message 2: by Steph

Steph Patt Hi Jacopo! Thanks for the friend request! I look forward to seeing you around GR!


Jacopo Quercia Chad B. wrote: "Jacopo, thank you for the Goodreads friend connect.
Wishing you the very best!

Chad"


Thank you kindly, Chad!


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