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1) The Kingdom
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Fargo adventures volume 3
Language
English
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo must use their instinct for treasure-hunting to find a missing person in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
The Fargos are used to hunting for fortune, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos' was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam...
The Fargos are used to hunting for fortune, not people. But then a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea: an investigator friend of the Fargos' was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father-and now the investigator is missing, too. Would Sam...
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Gideon Crew volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When his former employer goes missing, Gideon Crew, reeling from his terminal diagnosis, pursues the long-awaited translation of the Phaistos Disc, an ancient tablet that could end or save his life.
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English
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Two weeks before the end of the world predicted by the ancient, Maya calendar, Dr. Gabriel Stanton receives a call from a hospital resident alerting him to the presence of a patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan American researcher at the Getty Museum, finds herself in possession of an illegal ancient artifact: a priceless codex from a lost city of her ancestors. This record seems to hold the...
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"The crumbling Victorian had been abandoned long before Jane ever discovered it as a child. It was painted a sweet violet color, and the gingerbread trim was blue and green, but inside was shambles--broken glass, a dollhouse ravaged by mice, bedsheets twisted as though someone had left in a hurry. Still, the house became a hideaway whenever Jane needed to escape her volatile mother. Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to...
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Oregon files volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA to track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer" --
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 23
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010], c1994
Language
English
Description
Returning to Egypt to help his uncle Ben and cousin Sari with an archaeological dig, Gabe learns about a curse that supposedly brings mummies back to life and thinks his uncle has become a victim.
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Series
Jack Howard novels volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Greece, 1876. Renowned archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann unearths the tomb of legendary King Agamemnon and makes a mind-blowing discovery. Determined to keep it secret until the time is right, he dies before it can be revealed to the world. Germany, 1945. The liberation of a concentration camp reveals clues to the lost antiquities stolen by the Nazis. But the operation is covered up after a horrific secret surfaces. Northern Aegean, present day....
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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--the Fargos are about to find out.
11) Trojan odyssey
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Language
English
Description
Underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew investigate a black tide infesting the ocean off Nicaragua, a study complicated by the discovery of a mysterious artifact, a powerful storm, and a conspiracy.
13) The Exodus quest
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Series
Daniel Knox novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
"Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's second adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 13
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe Hardy must find the men who murdered an explorer for his map of Egypt before the murderers discover a golden mummy and the lost treasure buried with it.
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Series
Yusuf Khalifa novels volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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Series
Geronimo Stilton. Cavemice volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When the Stone of Fire has been stolen, Geronimo Stiltonoot, Geronimo Stilton's ancestor, is on the case to retrieve the artifact from Tiger Khan and his band of fearsome felines.
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Series
Jake Ransom volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
19) Broken angels
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English
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Thirty years after the events of Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs hasn't softened a bit. Trained as an Envoy, one of the elite soldiers of the Protectorate, he's as drawn to violence as ever. Now, his past buried in the empire's databanks and the cortical stack that contains his personality and memories "re-sleeved" into a new body, he's a mercenary sent to crush a revolution on Sanction IV. However, he becomes entangled in an archaeological discovery...
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Sandsea trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land--at the cost of sacrificing all jinn. With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan's oldest son...
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