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22) Cross bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an Orthodox jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her a photograph of a skeleton and assures her the picture is the key to the victim's death. Before she knows it, Tempe is involved in an international mystery as old as Jesus, a mystery that could rewrite 2000 years of religious history.
23) Relic
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
24) 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.
26) Paradox
Author
Series
Rogue angel volume 21
Publisher
Worldwide Library
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 16
Language
English
Description
"It begins in Africa... A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle -- known...
30) The Exodus quest
Author
Series
Daniel Knox novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's second adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in L.A. But he also lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning and searching for their lost power. The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall -- a global shopping paradise infested with Lurkers and wretched bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, squatters who...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a brilliant homage to Agatha Christie, critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander sends Lady Emily to Egypt during British colonial rule to investigate a crime that leads back to the era of the Pharaohs. In Secrets of the Nile, Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have joined his formidable mother on a holiday to visit the exotic treasures of Egypt..."--
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 12
Language
English
Description
"Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries in this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure"--
Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on a hunt for the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. They ran afoul of a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nicole Berman is an archaeologist on the brink of a world-changing discovery. During her first dig in Jordan, she believes she has found concrete evidence of a biblical patriarch that could change history books forever-- but someone doesn't want the truth revealed. While Nicole is urgently trying to connect pieces of an ancient puzzle, a dangerous enemy is out to stop her"--
37) Existence
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In a future world dominated by a neural-link web where people can tune into live events and revolutions can be instantly sparked, an active alien communication device is discovered in orbit around the Earth, triggering an international upheaval of fear, hope and violence.
Author
Series
Gilded wolves volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost, one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost artifact rumored to grant its possessor the power of God. Their hunt lures them far from Paris, and into the icy heart of Russia where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken goddesses carry deadly secrets,...
39) The dark city
Author
Series
Relic master volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Raffi, Master Galen, and a mysterious traveler, Carys, enter the ruined city of Tasceron seeking a relic that may save the world, while evading the Watch, a brutal organization opposed to the Order to which Raffi and Galen belong.
Author
Series
Pot thief mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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