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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...
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"In the year 1013, Viking warriors raided an Egyptian tomb and unknowingly stole the greatest secret of the Old Testament. Neurotic, quirky archaeologist Bjørn Beltø leads an average life, until the day he finds ancient Viking parchments containing rune chiffers and code riddles, which lead him on a quest from the wild Icelandic landscape and Norwegian stave churches to Egyptian tombs, antiquarian book stores in Rome, and even across the Atlantic...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again.
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start...
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.
While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start...
Author
Series
Agatha Christie novels volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Baghdad, 1928. Agatha Christie has traveled to the excavation of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur to investigate an unsolved mystery: two years ago, the explorer and writer Gertrude Bell died there from a drug overdose. At the time, authorities believed that Bell had taken her own life, but a letter recently unearthed reveals she was afraid someone intended to kill her. Upon arrive, Agatha encounters Miss Bell's former rival, the enigmatic archaeologist...
Author
Series
Clayton White novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Former air force combat rescue officer Special Agent Clayton White now works for the Secret Service performing routine escort missions for politicians. These missions may not be quite as exciting as his time in the military, but Clayton's okay with that. It gives him more time to see his girlfriend, Veronica Hammond--an archaeologist who also happens to be the vice president elect's daughter. But Clayton's seemingly manageable new routine takes a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"El arqueólogo forense Diego Daza ha sido poseído por Kukulcan y no reacciona: mientras él se cree testigo de los designios de Huitzilopochtli--quien guía a su pueblo hacia la fundación de México-Tenochtitlan--sus amigos, encabezados por el hábil detective Delfino Endoque, preparan el enfrentamiento final contra Gregorio Urquidi y sus secuaces"--back cover.
"Forensic archaeologist Diego Daza has been possessed by Kukulcan and does not react:...
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 2
Language
English
Description
An attack outside Stanford University thrusts archaeologist Erin Granger back into the fold of the Sanguines, an ancient Vatican order who seek the answers to a mystery found within the pages of a gospel written in Christ's own blood. As the threat of Armageddon looms, she must join forces with an ancient evil to halt the plans of a man determined to see the world end, a man known simply as Iscariot.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 19
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist and explorer extrodinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple, in Greece, sunken underwater that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate, who's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon. Facing her greatest challenges yet, the intrepid tomb raider pursues Lo, in order to get her hands back on Pandora's...
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sequel to "Old Bones" finds FBI agent Corrie Swanson and Santa Fe archaeologist Nora Kelly investigating the mummified corpse of a long-dead victim who died in agony while holding a mysterious sixteenth-century gold cross.
97) Alpha and omega
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true? It is certainly the last thing Eric Katz--a secular archeologist from Los Angeles--expects to discover during what should be a routine dig in Jerusalem. But perhaps higher forces have something else in mind. For when a sign presaging the rising of the Third Temple is located in America and a dirty bomb is detonated in downtown Tel Aviv, events conspire to place a team of archaeologists...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After my son Kyle Ferriera van Leer declared his major in Egyptology at Yale in 2010, he mentioned the Book of Two Ways in passing. Without knowing a thing about it, I said, "That's a great title for a novel." It was only after he began to explain what it actually was that I realized what I needed to write about - the construct of time, and love, and life, and death"--
Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing....
99) The mummy
Language
English
Description
Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension.
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