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English
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Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
2) Timeline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly creamated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study...
3) The deep
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society -- and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the [...] song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group clipping. Yetu holds the memories for her people -- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners -- who live idyllic...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Art historian Vicky Bliss may be blond and beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. She also has the brain of an Einstein, the reckless courage of a test pilot -- and no one's more savvy about fine works of art. For example: the gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum is currently dangling in front of her. It's an exquisite replica of a Charlemagne talisman -- and it was found, along with a note written in hieroglyphs, sewn into the suit...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When their autistic son Michael--a genius descended from Albert Einstein--is abducted by a cult bent on the destruction of the world, science historian David Swift and quantum physicist Monique Reynolds must stop the cult members from recreating the Big Bang and destroying mankind.
8) Color blind
Author
Series
Kate McKinnon novels volume 2
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
10) Deadly descent
Author
Series
Lottie Albright mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
New England art history professor Sweeney St. George returns for her second brush with death (after the Agatha Award finalist O' Artful Death) as she investigates the death of a student, a descendant of a prominent family and collector of 19th-century mourning jewelry.
16) O' artful death
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martins Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Art historian Sweeney St. George's interest in an unusual late-Victorian gravestone sculpture takes her to a former art colony in Vermont. Her arrival coincides with the suspicious death of an old local lady who believed that the young woman in the grave Sweeney is seeking was murdered. Sweeney investigates, attempting to find out who carved the beautiful monument and what really happened to the young woman. Her search into local family backgrounds...
17) Eifelheim
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Publisher
Tor Book
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and was never resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend, Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived, but it didn't. Why? What was special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago? In 1348, as the Black Death is gathering strength across Europe, Father Deitrich is the priest of the village that will come to...
18) Sabbath
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The infamous 11th-century warrior Hexen Sabbath is plucked from death and certain damnation by a being claiming to be an angel of the Lord, and finds himself dropped into contemporary Manhattan with no clothes, no weapons, no resources, and one mission--to track down and kill the living personifications of the Seven Deadly Sins before they bring about Armageddon.ddon.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet,...
Author
Series
Lottie Albright mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Another group of murders, and Undersheriff Lottie Albright is on the case, this time as lead investigator and director of the regional crime center. She is joined by a local and not-so-local cast of characters, whom have their own ideas about how certain elements of the case should be run. Can they solve the case, and stop the serial murderer, all while dealing with the bad winter weather destroying the crime scenes?
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