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1) Fatal voyage
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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2) Bare bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Description
"Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan can't believe it. She finally gets to go on a vacation--with a potential love interest no less--only to have her plans derailed when a collection of bones is found in the woods near a posh victim."--Container.
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Series
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English
Description
Despite a traumatic childhood in Cold Creek, Ohio, the Lockwood sisters have reunited there for the wedding of youngest sister Tess to the town's sheriff. Maid of honor Kate Lockwood is determined to break through best man Grant Mason's defences. An anthropologist, Kate makes her living studying the dead. She is particularly interested in the prehistoric Adena civilization that once called the area home. A large burial mound sits on Mason family land,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.
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Language
English
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To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they return to California, something alters the picture of their perfect marriage. A frightening pattern is taking shape--a cycle of hurt, denial, and promises,...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1979
Language
English
Description
Seances, hypnotic trances, spectral apparitions, lost gold mines, and a mysterious disappearance combine in this suspenseful and romantic mystery featuring a food-loving heroine, fledgling anthropologist D. J. Abbott, sought after by several young men and equipped with the cleverness needed to unravel a complex plot.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Our people are survivors, Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots-could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true? Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared--or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape...
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