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Author
Series
Grayson friends novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Cougars, brush fires, snow storms rancher Duncan McBride tackles it all without a flinch. But the archeologist who's come to authenticate cave drawings found on his property is the kind of trouble he'd sworn to avoid. Far from the aging academic he was expecting, Raven La Blanc is a stunning woman&and definitely not sticking around this small Montana town once her job is done. The primitive drawings at Duncan's ranch are Raven's ticket to the tenured...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed novels The House Between Tides and Beyond the Wild River, a rich, atmospheric tale set on the sea-lashed coast of west Scotland, in which the lives of a ninth-century Norsewoman, a nineteenth-century woman, and a twenty-first-century archaeologist weave together after a body is discovered in the dunes. Libby Snow has always felt the pull of Ullanessm a lush Scottish island enshrouded in myth and deeply important to...
64) Deadlock
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
CIA and MI6 operative John Garret is called on a desperate mission to save Emily Hudson, an archeologist and the only survivor of a ruthless massacre. But their may be more to this job than he is being told.
66) The anomaly
Author
Series
Anomaly files volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
June 2018.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A lighthearted but informative look at chance discoveries made by ordinary people, of artifacts (and treasures) from the past. Many of these discoveries have led to leaps in our knowledge of history and science. Each short chapter will begin with a dramatic story of discovery, followed by the significance of the artifact that was discovered, followed by a look into the history of the civilization/era from which the artifact originates. The stories...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her -- a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar. The vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's...
69) Blood infernal
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 3
Language
English
Description
A scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy foretold in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries: The shackles of Lucifer have been loosened, and his Chalice remains lost. Erin must again join with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and Father Rhun Korza to search for the lost treasure. But it has already fallen into the hands of a demon named Legion, before whom even...
70) God of thunder
Author
Series
Rogue angel volume 7
Publisher
Worldwide Library
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
71) Subterranean
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Archaelogist Ashley Carter and a team of specialists attempt to explore a labyrinth deep beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth, a deadly maze that holds things that should not be disturbed.
73) 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
Order of the Sanguines volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza, and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.
76) A dire isle
Author
Series
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An archeological team is excavating on the banks of the Betwa River near Jahnsi. A place where, legend has it, a couple forbidden to marry had run away to be together--forever cursing anyone who dares set foot on the island. When the head of the expedition defies the myth, the fallout is swift and deadly, the body found exactly as the ancient stories describe. Is the death a result of the ancient curse, or is it a down-to-earth case of murder? Detective...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A marine scientist who has discovered twenty-two major shipwrecks chronicles some of his most intriguing finds, the extraordinary techniques that he used, and the detailed research and mid-ocean stamina that were required for his missions.
78) The death relic
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
After being vanquished by the Spanish empire, little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities emerged a unified legend: Their conquerors possessed a mysterious artifact so powerful - so deadly - that it was universally known as the "Death Relic." When archaeologist Maria Pelati's research team disappears in the rugged terrain of the Yucatan Peninsula, she contacts Jonathon Payne and David Jones to help track them...
Author
Series
Devil you know volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Famed and brilliant, Lady Alexandra Lane has always known how to look out for to herself. But nobody would ever expect that she has darkness in her past-one that she pays a blackmailer to keep buried. Now, with her family nearing bankruptcy, Alexandra strikes upon a solution: Get married to one of the empire's most wealthy eligible bachelors. Even if he does have the reputation of a devil. Piers Gedrick Atherton, the Duke of Redmayne, is seeking...
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