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1) The firebird
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
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) Sacred stone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Memphis "M" Engel is stubborn, graced with an almost absurd knowledge of long lost languages and cultures, and a heck of an opponent in a fight. Ashwin "Ash" Sood is a little too posh, a little too good looking, and has way too many secrets. He desperately wants the ancient map M inherited from her archaeologist father, believing it will lead him to a relic with the power to destroy the world. The two form an uneasy partnership, crisscrossing the...
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.
Author
Series
Waters of time volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the disappearance of her father and sister, Ellen Creighton wants nothing to do with the holy water they were seeking, even if it would cure her deadly genetic disease-until a friend helps her recognize its true power in this suspenseful, time-crossing romantic adventure"--
In the last stages of a genetic disease, Ellen Creighton has decided to live out her remaining days at the estate of her longtime friend Harrison Burlington. As a wheelchair-bound...
7) The rose
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
On the day of Lia's university graduation party, her parents--wealthy art collectors with friends in high places--gift her a beautiful wine cup, a rare artifact decorated with roses. It's a stunning gift, and one that August Bowman, a friend of her parents and a guest at Lia's party, also has his eye on. The cup, August tells her, is known as the Rose Kylix, and it's no ordinary cup. It was used in the temple ceremonies of Eros, Greek god of erotic...
Author
Series
Mike Hammer mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Formats
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
Plaza y Janés
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Madrid, actualidad. Ana García-Brest, experta en arte, recibe la llamada de Martin, el joven y misterioso buscador de tesoros a quien conoció fugazmente durante la búsqueda de El Astrólogo en La Tabla Esmeralda. Han asesinado a un magnate italiano y un poderoso tesoro está en peligro: el Medallón de Hiram, una reliquia mágica que perteneció al arquitecto del templo de Salomón. Nadie conoce el paradero exacto de la pieza y Martin necesita...
10) The Rosetta key
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.
11) Signs of you
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Riley copes with the loss of her mother two years earlier with the help of a support group, which gets involved in a mystery surrounding a relic of St. Ignatius.
Author
Series
Storm Syrrell adventures volume 2
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Antiques expert Storm Syrrell heads to Europe to investigate the clandestine trade in religious artifacts. Is she prepared to confront both earthly and spiritual powers? She remains haunted by lessons in love and betrayal-- but hesitation now holds mortal consequences.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
"In New York Times bestseller, Steve Berry's, latest Cotton Malone adventure, one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will...
14) Vespertine
Author
Series
Vespertine (Rogerson) volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
15) Brothers keepers
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-137
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make a room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, Brothers Keepers offers not only a master...
16) Bone chase
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"There were giants on the earth in those days - at least that's what the Bible says. But, where are they? Did they ever really exist at all? When out-of-work math teacher Ethan McCloud is sent a mysterious box, he and his ex-girlfriend begin to unravel a mystery 10,000 years in the making-and he is the last hope to discovering the world's greatest conspiracy. Chased by both the Six-Fingered Man and the Council of David, Ethan must survive the chase...
Series
Adventure zone volume 4
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A desperate call for help interrupts holiday celebrations at the Bureau of Balance, and sends Taako, Magnus and Merle on a high-stakes mission to find and reclaim a fourth deadly relic: a powerful transmutation stone, hidden somewhere in the depths of a floating arcane laboratory that's home to the Doctors Maureen and Lucas Miller. An unknown menace has seized control of the stone, and is using it to transform the lab into a virulent pink crystal...
Author
Series
Lord of the islands volume 1
Publisher
ACE
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Just before her sixteenth birthday, Princess Katerina is informed she will not be inheriting the throne, merely because of her sex, and is married off. But she is having none of it, and murders her husband on their wedding night. She embarks on a perilous voyage in search of the wealth and power she needs to claim her inheritance. And in the Laut Besar, a region of thousands of islands, pampered prince Jun sets off to recover the ancient sword of...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a break-in at the home of Father Alex Andreou coincides with the murder of his research partner, Andreou works to discover the truth of his partner's secret research into the Gospels, while being hunted by someone with an interest in the results.
20) Map of bones
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Armed monks ransack the massive Gothic cathedral in Cologne, Germany, ancient relics are stolen, and hundreds of people are murdered. Commander Gray Pierce and his team begin a harrowing search for the secrets to a mysterious ancient power.
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