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1) The firebird
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Arcane Society novels volume 4
Language
English
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.
3) Lost empire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery-but unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. Mexico's ruling party, the ultranationalist Mexica Tenochca, is intent on finding that artifact as well, because it contains a secret that could destroy the party utterly.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Pressured by a patron who would buy a cardinalship, a sixteenth-century relic hunter and his best friend unsuccessfully forge a shroud before being placed in the custody of mercenaries to steal the celebrated Shroud of Chambéry.
5) The Jester
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Hugh De Luc returns from the Crusades to find his son killed, his wife kidnapped, and his town gutted in the search for a priceless relic . . . and now, he must fight to save everything he holds dear.
Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests. They...
Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests. They...
Author
Series
Will Wilder volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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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"--
7) Vespertine
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Ethan Gage adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Expatriate Ethan Gage, in the Holy Land to save his former lover Astiza and to search for the revered legendary Book of Thoth, is in danger again as Napoleon's army marches towards Jerusalem.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a violent snowstorm, Mike Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto a remarkable archaeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces the life of the Austrian composer, along with the story of a lock of his hair cut by a barber after his death, which was kept by various owners and the analysis of which revealed the high level of lead present in the composer's body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Indiana Jones meets The Lost Property Office in this action-packed mystery about a young girl searching for her father from the author of Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls the first in a new series! Having a world-traversing archaeologist dad means twelve-year-old Lola Benko is used to moving around and not putting down roots anywhere. But every day and every hunt for something hidden is an adventure, and no matter what, she and her dad are an unbeatable...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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.
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