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Oathsworn novels volume 1
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Look no further for your next Viking series.
This is the first in the epic Oathsworn series, charting the adventures of a band of Vikings on the chase for the secret hoard of Attila the Hun. In time with the magnificent British Museum Viking exhibition, comes the Oathsworn series, by fiction legend Bernard Cornwell, and known for its blockbuster battles and powerful suspense. Life is savage aboard a Viking raider. Young Orm Rurikson is plucked from...
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Series
Mike Hammer mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After preventing the violent robbery of two college sweethearts who stumbled onto a priceless archaeological find, P.I. Mike Hammer takes on Islamic terrorists and Israeli extremists out to seize the relic for their own purposes.
4) The firebird
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Series
Slains volume 2
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Nicola Marter was born with a gift so rare and dangerous, she kept it buried deep. When she encounters a desperate woman trying to sell a small wooden carving called "The Firebird," claiming it belonged to Russia's Empress Catherine, it's a problem. There's no proof. But Nicola's held the object. She knows the woman is telling the truth.
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Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In the Greek Islands, three distinctive individuals uncover a plot to plunder religious treasures and unite in a quest that has implications more far-reaching than they know"--
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Series
Will Wilder volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"A thrill-seeking twelve-year-old boy with a mysterious family heritage discovers ancient objects of rare power--and must protect them from the terrifying demons who will do anything to possess them"--
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Storm Syrrell adventures volume 2
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Storm Syrrell, an antiques dealer, investigates the trade in religious artifacts in Europe and is asked by a Russian oligarch to bid on a mysterious Black Madonna, an icon with healing powers, as the treasure hunter Storm had been travelling with suddenly disappears.
10) The third circle
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Series
Arcane Society novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In this new Arcane Society novel set in Victorian England, Leona Hewitt, a gifted crystal worker, isn't the only one sneaking into Lord Delbridge's private museum to recover a relic. Thaddeus Ware, a mesmerist with psychic gifts, is on a similar mission. Neither one of them has any idea that this relic--a rare ancient crystal--will lead them in a deadly chase where danger and desire await.
12) Sacred stone
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Series
Oregon files volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
10 CDs (ca. 11 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Juan Cabrillo is back in this quick, complex, and exciting adventure. The top items on Juan's list of priorities are supplying security for the Emir of Qatar, tracking down a missing nuclear bomb, and picking up a radioactive meteorite recently discovered in an enigmatic shrine. With masterful aplomb, Juan excitedly and effectively carries out his various missions.
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Series
Burren mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
When fire destroys an important relic in Kilnaboy Church and then the pilgrim who confessed to the crime is murdered, Mara and her law students set out to discover how he was killed and the murderer's identity.
14) Vespertine
Author
Series
Vespertine (Rogerson) volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia defends the Gray Sisters by awakening the revenant bound to a saint's relic, even though she runs the risk of being possessed permanently by the powerful ancient spirit.
15) Lost empire
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Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt for a relic--but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death.
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Fargo adventures volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi...
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Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
639 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
Following the devastating ending of La mesa del rey Salomón, Tirso Alfaro and the surviving Searchers now face some baffling yet somehow interconnected robberies from various Spanish archives and libraries. All signs seem to indicate that the mysterious Voynich organization is behind the thefts. The Searchers new adventure involves a gold chain that grants its holder the wisdom of the ages, the stolen fragments of the Islamic codex known as El Mardud...
18) Wicked business
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Description
Dazzling her patrons with scrumptious cupcakes at her Salem, Massachusetts, bakery, Elizabeth Tucker continues to fall for the irresistible Diesel, who protects her from a villain who is seeking mystical stones tied to the seven deadly sins.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss ofher homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient...
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 320 p. ; 22 cm.
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