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Author
Series
Samantha Knox volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sam Knox must use her archaeological skills and her knowledge of ciphers to crack the code of a mysterious diary and outsmart a nefarious brotherhood seeking to activate the curse of the Specter Queen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
""En la naturaleza no hay vejez, no hay decrepitud. Solo hay plenitud o muerte". "Nos encantaría descubrir que cada especie tiene un reloj biológico en sus células, porque, de existir ese reloj y si fuéramos capaces de dar con él, quizá pudiéramos pararlo y de ese modo volvernos eternos", le plantea Arsuaga a Millás en este libro en el que la ciencia se entrelaza con la literatura. El paleontólogo desvela aspectos esenciales de nuestra existencia...
63) Labyrinth
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Author
Publisher
GodwinBooks, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the building of the mighty Swedish warship the Vasa, how it sank not even a mile out of the harbor, the subsequent investigation, and how it was brought to the surface and restored more than three hundred years later.
66) Titanic's last secrets: the further adventures of shadow divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Previously undiscovered wreckage from the Titanic suggests that the doomed ship may have broken in half while nearly horizontal and gone down before most of the passengers knew what was happening.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. It's a piece of history that definitely shouldn't exist. And for the head archaeologist in charge, a relic himself, it means something's gone horribly wrong. Elise, Kara, Z, and Patty all find themselves digging here together, but they couldn't be farther apart. Kara's a polished conservator calling off her wedding. Patty and...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Rilla Brae puts off thoughts of college to take over his lobstering business, while helping an archaeology student excavate nearby Malaga, an uninhabited island with a ghost that beckons her.
70) 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
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance--a century to the day after Shackleton's death--that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries, both of whom accomplished the impossible.
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.
73) Bonekickers
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gillian Magwilde leads an intrepid team of archaeologists as they come across mud, blood, and death-defying adventure when they start digging. A blend of modern forensics with historical mysteries.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"You won't believe why the Old Scientist swallowed a dinosaur, a fern, a rock, a pick, a dustpan, a sifting screen, a pen, and a magnifying glass!"--
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
How many female Viking warriors does it take to make a fact? When archaeologist Dr. Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson discovers that the bones contained in the most significant Viking warrior grave ever opened are in fact female, she and her team upend centuries of historically accepted conclusions and ignite a furious debate around the reality of female Viking warriors and the role of gender in both ancient and modern times. In The Bones of Birka, author...
Author
Series
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Labor Day in Blewestown, Alaska, and it seems most of the town's thirty-five hundred residents have turned out to celebrate- or to cause trouble. Liam Campbell is checking out the local watering hole in his new town. He's finally made it out of Newenham and is ready for a quiet life with his wife. He has been in town for about a week when an archaeologist invites him out to his dig site outside of town. He's on the verge of a momentous discovery,...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 28
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While the Thea sisters are at the excavation site of a dig at Hierapolis, Professor Brenninger unearths a series of priceless and very old figurines, but the Thea Sisters think the discovery may be a scam and investigate.
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