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Gideon Crew volume 5
Language
English
Description
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation...
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Series
Dirk Pitt Adventure volume 27
Language
English
Description
"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l’Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving...
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a researcher returns to Elendel with images of a mythical Lord Ruler artifact, believed to grant wearers his power, Waxillium Ladrian conducts an investigation in the southern city of New Seran, where he makes unsettling discoveries about the true goals of The Set.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
What did California look like before Hollywood? Before the Gold Rush? Before the missions? Brian Fagan, the best known popular archaeology writer in America, is your tour guide on a fascinating trip across the Golden State before the arrival of Europeans. Fagan tells of the first groups who drifted into the state over 13,000 years ago and how their descendants used the land and sea to survive in a fragile environment subject to earthquake, drought,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah's Ark - the artifact her father had long been searching for - and the possible death of billions. After giving Dilara a man's name to contact, Sam collapses and dies.
10) Historium
Author
Series
Publisher
BPP
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Profiles more than one hundred historically relevant artifacts from around the world and complements each with an illustrated depiction and text about the ancient civilization it represents.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"A sweeping history of Jerusalem and the pivotal role that archaeology has played--both in its invention as a modern holy city and as the match that lit a geopolitical fire beneath it In 1863, a French politician and adventurer heard a rumor of biblical treasures beneath Jerusalem. At the time, Jerusalem was a venerable backwater, not the thriving religious center we think of today. Archaeology itself was in its infancy--more a pastime for treasure-hunting...
16) Pyramids
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Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Describes the pyramids of Egypt and the Americas and their significance in the social, political, and religious life of long-vanished civilizations.
17) National Geographic investigates ancient Inca: archaeology unlocks the secrets of the Inca's past
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The next in New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series involves the Knights of Malta, papal conclave, and lost documents that could change history. A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled...
20) Chronicle of the Pharaohs: the reign-by-reign record of the rulers and dynasties of ancient Egypt
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
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