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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears-and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue.
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7) Storm cycle
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Language
English
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Rachel Kirby, a computer genius whose beloved twin sister is dying from a chronc illness, receives a mysterious email from archeologist John Tanek who sits trapped inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb with a functioning laptop thousands of miles away. It turns out the collapse was no accident. John has discovered something very valuable in that tomb, something that humankind has been searching for throughout history, something that Rachel could use as...
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Language
English
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In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that--if he can find it--would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"The new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after...
14) The pharaoh key
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 5
Language
English
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Description
When his former employer goes missing, Gideon Crew, reeling from his terminal diagnosis, pursues the long-awaited translation of the Phaistos Disc, an ancient tablet that could end or save his life.
Author
Series
Minnesota prehistoric archaeology volume no. 12
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
18) The ark: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The greatest archaeological discovery in history could mean the end of mankind in this blockbuster new thriller.
When beautiful archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend, to say that he has new information about her father, now missing for three years, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig to fly to Los Angeles to meet with him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah's Ark-the artifact her father had long been...
19) Shadow zone
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Language
English
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Description
A discovery by submersible designer Hannah Bryson suggests a possible cause of mythical Atlantis's mysterious demise that has potentially cataclysmic consequences for the modern world.
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