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Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Gina "Tinkerbell" Miyoko is not your typical private eye. Armed with a baby blue Magnum, a Harley blessed with Holy Water by her dramatically disposed mother, and a Japanese mingei tucked in her pocket (a good luck charm from her Sherlock Holmes-obsessed father) Tink spends her time sniffing out delinquent dads in the San Francisco Bay area and honing her detective skills. But when her best friend Rose, an undercover agent, discovers there's a stalker...
62) The oracle
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team of Sam and Remi Fargo return in a new adventure as they search for an ancient scroll--which carries a deadly curse--in this thrilling addition to Clive Cussler's bestselling series. In 533 A.D., the last Vandal ruler in North Africa consults an oracle on how to defeat the invading Byzantine army. The oracle tells the king that a high priestess cast a curse upon the Vandal Kingdom after a sacred scroll was...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While vacationing in Mexico, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a skeleton with an ancient Mayan book, full of secrets and information so powerful, many people who do anything to possess it..
64) Antiquities
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven surviving trustees of the now defunct (for 34 years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with a description of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall , between the subtle anti-semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family history--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir Flinders...
65) The lost tribes
Author
Series
Lost tribes volume 1
Publisher
Move Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When Ben is given a challenge to beat a unique computer game, he can then join his globe-trotting uncle on the adventure of a lifetime. Ben, his sister April, friends Grace, Carlos and Serise team up to help him. These five friends could never imagine their ordinary parents are scientists on a secret mission. When their parents go missing, they are forced into unfathomable circumstances and learn of a history that's best left unknown. Now they must...
66) Herc
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
A queer revisionist retelling of the story of Hercules, for fans of The Song of Achilles, A Thousand Ships and Ariadne. This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures... everyone's favorite hero, right? Well, it's not. This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc's mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc's first friend (They were more than friends) Megara: Herc's wife (She'll tell you about their marriage)...
Author
Series
Gideon Sable novels volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Master thief, rogue and chancer Gideon Sable is back for another fast-paced supernatural heist - and this time he has the vault of a Las Vegas casino in his sights. Judi Rifkin is one of the world's most successful collectors of the weird and unnatural. In a London underworld filled with criminals with very special talents, Judi is a force to be reckoned with. And Gideon Sable - thief, rogue, and chancer - owes her a very large favour. Judi makes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In skillfully intertwined storylines from the dawn of the twentieth century and the heyday of the Roman Empire, Tasha Alexander's bestselling series brings Lady Emily and her husband to Pompeii, where they uncover a recent crime in the ancient city. Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others. But when Emily discovers a body hidden in plain sight amongst the ruins of Pompeii, she sets in motion a deadly chain of events that ties her future to...
69) The Godstone
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fenra Lowens has been a working Practitioner, using the magic of healing ever since she graduated from the White Court and left the City to live in the Outer Modes. When one of her patients, Arlyn Albainil, is summoned to the City to execute the final testament of a distant cousin, she agrees to help him. Arlyn suspects the White Court wants to access his cousin's Practitioner's vault. Arlyn can't ignore the summons: he knows the vault holds an artifact...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The ashes of the Cataclysm have settled across Azeroth's disparate kingdoms. As the broken world recovers from the disaster, the renowned sorceress Lady Jaina Proudmoore continues her long struggle to mend relations between the Horde and the Alliance. Yet of late, escalating tensions have pushed the two factions closer to open war, threatening to destroy what little stability remains in the . . . Dark news arrives in Jaina's beloved city, Theramore....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businesses--a moribund motel and shabby amusement park--endangered but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins uncovering artifacts that change his understanding of the island's...
Author
Series
Ben Walker novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's chilling exploration of what happens when the original Pandora's Box is discovered in an ancient subterranean city, stirring international conflict and exposing the archaeological team to curses, whispers, and the terror of a legendary plague. In one ancient variation on the myth of Pandora's Box, there were two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister, Anesidora. One contained all the blessings...
Author
Series
Kylar Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He's determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can't let walk free. He promises himself this is the last time. One last hit to tie up the loose ends of his old, lost life. But Kylar's best, and maybe only, friend, the High King Logan Gyre, needs him. To protect a fragile peace, Logan's new kingdom, and the king's twin sons, he needs...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Catwoman creates the perfect diversion at a cat show, while plotting to steal from the art museum an ancient Egyptian necklace that is supposed to give the person wearing it nine lives, and it is up to Batman and Robin to prevent the crime. Includes profile of Catwoman, glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers--and hearts--in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro "Corrie" Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her ancestor, Chimalli, an ancient warrior of the Aztec empire. But when she is invited to join an all-expenses-paid dig to do just that, Corrie...
Author
Series
Silver in the bone volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tamsin Lark goes on a quest to find the infamous ring from Arthurian legend to break her brother's curse"--
Tamsin Lark didn't ask to be a Hollower. As a mortal with no magical talent, she was never meant to break into ancient crypts, or compete with sorceresses and Cunningfolk for the treasures inside. But after her thieving foster father disappeared without so much as a goodbye, it was the only way to keep herself--and her brother, Cabell--alive....
Author
Series
Victorian ladies volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone. The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when Eleanor is appointed the temporary trustee of the baron's...
Author
Series
Marah Chase volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Once a rising star in the field of archaeology, Marah Chase is now a black-market treasure hunter, her services available to the highest bidder. But when she's caught "rescuing" relics in Syria before they're destroyed by war, an MI6 officer named Joanna Mason approaches her with an offer she can't refuse: help save the world or rot in prison. All Chase has to do is find Alexander the Great's lost tomb, recover an ancient weapon of mass destruction...
79) Hidden treasure
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Josie Prescott's discovery of a mysterious antique trunk leads to a disappearance-and murder-in the next installment of this beloved cozy series set on the rugged New Hampshire coast, Jane K. Cleland's Hidden Treasure. Josie Prescott, owner of Prescott's Antiques & Auctions, and her new husband Ty have finally found their dream home-a Victorian beauty on the beach, known in the town of Rocky Point as "The Gingerbread House." It was recently vacated...
Author
Series
Pot thief mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
"America s favorite pot thief must face off against the US Army to rescue a precious relic from obscurity in this clever and captivating mystery A dealer in traditional Native American pottery, Hubie Schuze scours New Mexico in search of ancient treasures. The Bureau of Land Management calls him a criminal, but Hubie knows that the real injustice would be to leave the legacies of prehistoric craftspeople buried in the dirt. In all his travels across...
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