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Pub. Date
2010
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When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson who thinks they may be the bones of a child called Lucy who has been missing for ten years.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 2
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The joys of home and hearth are about to drive Victorian gentle-woman Amelia Peabody Emerson mad. While she and her husband, archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson, dutifully go about raising their young son, she dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Providentially, a damsel in distress coupled with a strangely mysterious archaeological site demands their immediate presence in Egypt.
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Fargo adventures volume 12
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Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on a hunt for the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. They ran afoul of a criminal drug-running kingpin, but Sam and Remi survived their confrontation and managed to send him to prison. Now he has been released, and he has two goals in mind: Find the legendary hoard of King Croesus, and kill Sam and Remi Fargo....
24) The tomb of Zeus
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Laetitia Talbot mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
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viii, 353 p. ; 21 cm.
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It's the opportunity of a lifetime - the chance to prove that a tomb containing the remains of the legendary hero Hercules actually exists. If American archaeologist Nina Wilde can locate it, it will be the most important historical find ever unearthed. But as Nina and her ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase begin their search, it's clear that others want to find the tomb - and the unimaginable riches within - and will do anything to get there first. (Bestseller)...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 6
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Archeologist Amelia and her family are sent to the Nubian desert to find the explorer Willoughby Forth.
28) Atlantis
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Jack Howard novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
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465 p. : map ; 18 cm.
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Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her...
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Fargo adventures volume 5
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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--the Fargos are about to find out.
31) The mummy case
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
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Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" — and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest — until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own
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Fargo adventures volume 6
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"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
33) Diablo Mesa
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Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 3
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New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Raising Atlantis and The Atlantis Prophecy comes an explosive new international thriller jam-packed with political and prophetic intrigue. Beneath the city of God, A centuries-old secret awaits. And every power on earth wants it. The adventure begins with the wreckage of a sunken Nazi submarine and a shocking legacy of Hitler's quest for Atlantis. Archaeologist Conrad Yeats discovers in the ruins of...
36) The last remains
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2023.
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When the body of an archeology student, who went missing in 2002, is found during the renovation of a café, Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson uncover a tangled web of relationships between the archeology group and the café.
When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a café, they call in archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with...
37) The Exodus quest
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Daniel Knox novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
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"Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams's second adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox"--Provided by publisher.
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