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1) Riptide
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth's mysteries. First the computers fail. The then crewmen begin to die. The island has guarded its secrets for centuries, and...
2) The kingdom
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, Stone Age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years ... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head.
Author
Series
Wingfeather saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
Janner Igiby, his brother, Tink, and their disabled sister, Leeli, are gifted children as all children are, loved well by a noble mother and ex-pirate grandfather. But they will need all their gifts and all that they love to survive the evil pursuit of the venomous Fangs of Dang, who have crossed the dark sea to rule the land with malice. The Igibys hold the secret to the lost legend and jewels of good King Wingfeather of the Shining Isle of Anniera....
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jonathon Payne and D. J. Jones, former members of a top secret, very special unit of the armed forces, race to recover a lost treasure that could rewrite history, before it is destroyed by a group of men who will stop at nothing to conceal the secret.
5) Deep trouble
Author
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Gabe Lasley rescues Shannon Dysart, who is looking for a city of gold in order to vindicate her dead father, the two team up to search while being plagued by rival treasure hunters and a host of other difficulties.
6) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Cutter Cay volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Half-brother Jonah has a lot to prove on his first treasure-hunting trip with the Cutter brothers, but he struggles to resist the allure of a beautiful companion in order to avoid a deadly enemy and prove his worth on the sea.
7) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
8) Yuma gold
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Ben Ruby is stepping out of prison after an eight-year lock up to embark on a journey into dangerous territory. He must not only outwit an vengeful foe, but also outrun a breach in a Colorado River dam that threatens to flood an entire valley.
9) The prophecy
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Receiving a mysterious cache of documents written in codes and ancient languages, a perplexed woman enlists the help of Jonathon Payne and David Jones before discovering that she holds important predictions by the prophet Nostradamus that violent forces are determined to suppress.
Author
Language
English
Description
Llewelyn Moss is hunting antelope near the Texas/Mexico border when he stumbles upon several dead men, a big stash of heroin, and more than two million dollars in cash. He takes off with the money--and the hunter becomes the hunted. A drug cartel hires a former Special Forces agent to track down the loot, and a ruthless killer joins the chase as well. Also looking for Moss is the aging Sheriff Bell, a World War II veteran who may be Moss' only hope...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 8
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The outstanding new Sam and Remi Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. An 800-year-old treasure. an ancient cypher wheel. a brutal murder. and a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully his. Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle...
13) Hurricane
Author
Series
Cutter Cay volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When he takes his ex-wife Addison's megayacht in order to search for a valuable wreck, Rydell Case finds himself, along with Addison, tangled up in conspiracy, murder, and an international art heist.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie--a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance--mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara, on the other hand, has a number of ongoing distractions. Her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Lizzy and Diesel are back in an all-new wicked adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich and Emmy Award-winning co-author Phoef Sutton. Murdered and mummified nearly a century ago, notorious bootlegger Collier "Peg Leg" Dazzle discovered and re-hid a famous pirate's treasure somewhere along the coast of New England. A vast collection of gold and silver coins and precious gems, the bounty also contains the Stone of Avarice--the...
17) Spartan gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thousands of years ago, the Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as tribute. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumble across the pillars in the Pennine Alps. Unable to transport them Napoleon creates a map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. And when Napoleon dies, the bottles disappear. Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke...
18) The tombs
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times bestselling author and actual Florida Man Dave Barry returns with a Florida caper full of oddballs and more twists and turns than a snake slithering away from a gator. Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out,...
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