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Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
"For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of even older artifacts--tools of war--dating back to the Bronze...
Author
Series
Konrad Simonsen novels volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a girl is discovered in the melting Greenland ice cap hundreds of miles from any civilization Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen investigates the murder and discovers disturbing details about some of Denmark's most powerful figures.
Author
Series
Thora Gudmundsdottir novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the disappearance of a woman from the site some months earlier? And why are the locals so hostile?
4) Treasure
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 9
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
A conspiracy of evil reaches from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, involving a violent rise of fundamentalism in Mexico and Egypt that has the U.S. captive in its own borders. Dirk Pitt is determined to find the ancient books from the library of Alexandria.
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The highly acclaimed debut from an author profiled by the New Yorker as her country's "unlikely literary star," Last Night in Nuuk follows the lives of five young Greenlanders exploring their identities at the cusp of adulthood. Niviaq Korneliussen is a ground-breaking young writer hailed for creating "[her] own genre" (Politiken, Denmark) in her witty and fearless debut Last Night in Nuuk. A work of daring invention about young life in Greenland,...
6) First light
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
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