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Children of the lamp volume 5
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Djinn twins John and Philippa, along with their Uncle Nimrod, travel to the Amazon jungle to try to recover a stolen collection of rare Incan artifacts.
2) The angel
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While exploring a long-abandoned ruin in Ireland, Keira Sullivan discovers what she believes is the ancient stone angel from a shadowy myth. Rescued by Simon Cahill after the ruins collapse, Keira returns to Boston with Simon. There they realize that the long-forgotten myth has awakened a murderer.
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Series
Dead Sea chronicles volume 1
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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"--
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Book of the Wars novels volume 2
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"On a mission to recover the Book of the Wars, Leif and his team are diverted by a prophecy that foretells of sinister guardians who will decimate the enemies of the ArC. As they try to stop the guardians, danger creeps closer to home. The implications could tear them apart"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 179 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that"--
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Sigma Force novels volume 7
Description
After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
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Series
Copernicus legacy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
As Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca continue their search for an ancient relic, Wade's mother is kidnapped by Galina Krause, leader of the present-day Teutonic Knights.
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
More than 250 years after a pretender marquis escapes the palazzo of his vengeful prince, an American Army unit discovers a secret lab in Baghdad where victims have been subjected to torturous experiments, a finding that places two women on the trail of an ancient mystery.
10) Soul raging
Author
Series
Book of the Wars novels volume 3
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Description
"Done waiting for answers, former Navy SEAL Leif Metcalf seizes control and teams up with his greatest enemy--a move that comes with a deadly risk. Torn apart by opposing views on how to handle Leif's act of treachery, team Reaper hunts one of their own--agreeing only on starting, not stopping, the final battle prophesied in the Book of the Wars"--
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Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot of crooks and what he didn't know, his sociopathic sidekick Joe Pike did. Together their search begins in LA's Little Tokyo and the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, and leads...
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Gideon Crew volume 5
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Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation...
13) The ruins
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Two American couples vacationing in Cancun, Mexico follow a German tourist in search of his brother, last seen heading toward some ruins with his new girlfriend.
Author
Series
Red princess mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When the body of an American archaeologist turns up in the Yangtze, Liu Hulan, an agent for the Chinese government, and her American husband, David Stark, investigate and find that the murder may be tied to a missing priceless artifact.
Author
Series
Copernicus legacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"Wade, Lily, Darrell, and Becca fly from Texas to Germany for the funeral of an old family friend. But instead of just paying their respects, they wind up on a dangerous, mind-blowing quest to unlock an ancient, guarded secret that could destroy the fate of the world"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
314 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
When Geromino Stilton and his friends time travel to three different centuries seeking artifacts missing from the mouseum, they meet Alexander the Great, Queen Cleopatra, Francis Drake, and Mozart.
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Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
233 pages : illustration ; 18 cm.
Description
"A companion story to the original Mistborn trilogy. Building upon the characterization, events, and worldbuilding of the original trilogy, this novella offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes at the fate of a certain reader-favorite character. Ten years in the making, "Mistborn: Secret History" might answer a few of your questions"--
20) Relic
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre?
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