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41) Storm cycle
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Rachel Kirby, a computer genius whose beloved twin sister is dying from a chronic illness, receives a mysterious email from archeologist John Tanek who sits trapped inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb with a functioning laptop thousands of miles away. It turns out the collapse was no accident. John has discovered something very valuable in that tomb, something that humankind has been searching for throughout history, something that Rachel could use as...
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Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Description
"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
2015
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Some say the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands 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. So how can Sam and Remi Fargo resist? Clues and whispers lead them on a hunt from the Solomons to Australia to Japan, and what they find at the end...
44) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
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Series
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"Liam hasn't even formally started his new job as an Alaska state trooper when trouble starts. An archaeologist, Erik, has made a discovery, and its connection to native Alaskan tribes could shut down drilling work--the source of income for many local residents. Just days later, the skeleton of a boy is discovered on Erik's dig site; then Erik's body is found mere feet from where the skeleton was found. With the help of his new assistant, the new...
46) The Janus stone
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway--minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out--and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey tells...
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
448 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Kenya, 1961. As a small plane carrying Natalie Nelson lands at a remote airstrip in the Serengeti, Natalie knows she's run just about as far as she can from home. Trained as an archaeologist, she has accepted an invitation to be part of a famous excavating team, her first opportunity to escape England and the painful memories of her past. But before she can get her bearings, the dig is surrounded by controversy involving the local Maasai people--and...
48) Colony
Author
Publisher
Book Guild Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Harmsworth. A remote, mist-shrouded island in the Russian Arctic. Archaeology Professor Callum Ross makes the discovery of a lifetime: a prehistoric ice mummy preserved for thousands of years by the sub-zero temperatures. Only, they didn't die of natural causes . . . As Callum races to unravel the mystery of the mutilated corpse, others race to sabotage the expedition. He and his team are left stranded, and they are not alone on the island. Someone,...
49) The survivor
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 30
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 28
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 30
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 28
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 30
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
Author
Series
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...
51) Blood infernal
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 3
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
13 CDs (16 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Archaeologist Erin Granger must again join forces with Army Sgt. Jordan Stone and Father Rhun Korza to search for an ancient treasure lost for centuries. But the prized chalice has fallen into the hands of their enemy, a demon named Legion, before whom even the walls of the Vatican will fall. Third in the exciting Order of the Sanguines series. -- Audio Editions.
Author
Series
Babylon rising volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Michael Murphy is a hero for our troubled times. He’s an archaeologist and a scholar of Biblical prophecy. He’s also a man of action hunting ancient artifacts at the risk of his life. And this time he’s onto a find that will send him toward a confrontation with an evil of unimaginable power. For Murphy has unlocked secrets that were never meant to be revealed–secrets challenging everything Murphy’s ever believed…and jeopardizing everyone...
53) Wrecked
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Series
Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries volume 13
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Description
"Some losses cut to the bone... The suspicious drowning death of Captain Edward Eubank breaks archaeologist Faye Longchamp's heart. It also confuses her, because he was found in scuba gear and she's never heard him even mention scuba diving. During theirlast conversation, he told her that he believed he'd found a storied shipwreck, but when Faye checks it out, she finds nothing there-not a plank, not a single gold coin, nothing. If there's no treasure,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 529 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
"Built around Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, this evocative novel from New York Times-bestselling author Sally Beauman blends fact and fiction to recreate a lost world that's still fiercely enthralling and relevant today"--
In 1922, when Lucy is sent to Egypt to recuperate from typhoid, she meets Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist. The friendship draws the impressionable...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. It’s a piece of history that definitely shouldn’t exist. And for the head archaeologist in charge, a relic himself, it means something’s gone horribly wrong. Elise, Kara, Z and Patty all find themselves digging here together, but they couldn’t be farther apart. Kara’s a polished conservator calling...
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Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson. He thinks they may be the bones of a child called Lucy who has been missing for ten years, and whose abductor taunts him with bizarre letters referencing ritual sacrifice, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Then a second girl goes missing.
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Series
Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries volume 11
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Description
Faye has traveled to Memphis, a city steeped in music, poverty, history, and the smoky tang of barbecue. She's there working alone to do an assessment of a site, welcome work for her small archaeological consulting firm. When Faye spies a child too young to be wandering along a creek alone, she follows the girl. A day later she uncovers a dying woman, buried alive near a spot where Kali might well be hiding. Nobody would blame Faye for running hard,...
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"Archaeologist Faye Longchamp-Mantooth has dug herself a deep hole and she can't make her way out of it. As she struggles to recover from a shattering personal loss, she sees that everyone she loves is trying to reach out to her. If only she could reach back. Instead she's out digging holes all over her home, the Florida island of Joyeuse. In their old plantation home, Joe Wolf Mantooth is surrounded by family--Faye, the wife he loves; their toddler...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
11 CDs (12.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
60) Island of glass
Author
Series
Guardians trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 3
Description
"The final Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bay of Sighs and Stars of Fortune. As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his warrior spirit is still drawn to the wild. And there's no one more familiar with the wild than Riley--and the wolf within her... An archaeologist, Riley is no stranger...
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