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Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Junior FBI Agent Corrie Swanson needs to ID the body, and determine cause of death. When archaeologist Nora Kelly lends her expertise to the investigation, they uncover that the deceased died in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, a rictus of horror frozen on his face. And hidden on the corpse is a sixteenth century...
42) The anomaly
Author
Series
Anomaly files volume 1
Language
English
Description
"If Indiana Jones lived in the X-Files era, he might bear at least a passing resemblance to Nolan Moore -- a rogue archaeologist hosting a web series derisively dismissed by the "real" experts, but beloved of conspiracy theorists. Nolan sets out to retrace the steps of an explorer from 1909 who claimed to have discovered a mysterious cavern high up in the ancient rock of the Grand Canyon. And, for once, he may have actually found what he seeks. Then...
43) Storm cycle
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Computer genius Rachel Kirby struggles with the imminent death of her seriously ill sister before she receives a mysterious e-mail from John Tavak, an archaeologist who may know of a cure and who has been trapped inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb by dangerous adversaries.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Dawn Edelstein's life instantly changes when the plane she's on crashes. Before impact, she thinks not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash. She could return [to] Boston, back to her husband, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula. Or she could go to Egypt to find Wyatt, who works as an archaeologist, a career Dawn once studied for but abandoned. She could...
Author
Series
Isabelle Webb novels volume 3
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
As good and evil converge on the ancient isle of Greece, the final battle for possession of three mystical jewels -- and their anciently protected secret -- begins. When events take a deadly turn, former Pinkerton spy Isabelle Webb must rely on her keen instincts and indomitable spirit as dastardly forces threaten to make her first Greek expedition her last.
46) The ark: a novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Archaeologist Dilara Kenner and former combat engineer Tyler Locke realize that they have just seven days to find the remains of Noah's Ark before shadowy agents use its secret to wipe out civilization.
47) The Mummy Case
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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 shop. A second...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Archaeologist Nina Wilde's life has fallen apart. Her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase is on the run, falsely accused of murder, and her only distraction has been investigating the origin of three strange statues stolen from her just before Eddie's disappearance.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 theice, 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...
Author
Series
Dead Sea chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jerry B. Jenkins comes a heart-stopping adventure of historical proportions.
Nicole Berman is an archaeologist on the brink of a world-changing discovery. Preparing for 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 urgently trying to connect pieces of an ancient puzzle,...
51) The sacred vault
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Bantam Books mass market ed.
Language
English
Description
When the Talonor Codex, a great Atlantean explorer's account of his travels, is stolen, it becomes clear that the thefts form only part of the raiders' ultimate plan. Witnesses to the latest daring robbery, archaeologist Nina Wilde and former SAS soldier Eddie Chase are forced into a treacherous hunt across the world to discover the vault before its secrets fall into dangerous hands. The vault's prize is a treasure beyond price, but it may also be...
Author
Series
Christiansen family novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
After a failed dig in Honduras, aspiring archaeologist Casper Christiansen heads home to Minnesota to face his unresolved feelings for Raina Beaumont, the woman of his dreams. But when he arrives unannounced on her doorstep, he receives the shock of a lifetime: Raina is pregnant with someone else's baby. Helping his older brother, Darek, prepare the family resort for its grand reopening, one of Casper's new jobs constantly brings him into contact...
53) After Dark
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Welcome to Harmony—where the rules are a little different.
Life is tough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work part-time in Shrimpton’s House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn’t going well. Stuff keeps happening.
Take the dead body that she discovered...
Life is tough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work part-time in Shrimpton’s House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn’t going well. Stuff keeps happening.
Take the dead body that she discovered...
Author
Series
Mighty Muskrats mystery volume 1
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting archaeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance. In the midst of community conflict, family concerns, and environmental protests,...
55) Merlin's island
Author
Series
Minerva Mint volume 2
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The town of Pembrose in Cornwall, where Minerva, Ravi, and Thomasina live, is surrounded by places in the legends of King Arthur (which attract tourists), so when a famous archeologist arrives to debunk the legends, the three friends put aside the mystery of Minerva's identity and set out to prove that there really is magic in this place.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Join Amelia Peabody on her thrilling new expedition to the Valley of the Kings. Your Itinerary: Upper Egypt, 1907. A perilous adventure into antiquity with fiction's most beloved archaeologist and her captivating cohorts. Witness exotic scenery, craven tomb robbers, vengeful gods! Discover stolen treasures, a mysterious cult, surprising secrets hidden in desert sands! Find the unexpected - a rithless, remorseless killer with his eye on Amelia!
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body--while he was still alive. His strange remains are returned to London for further study, when alarming news...
58) Red Clover Inn
Author
Series
Swift River Valley novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome back to Swift River Valley. New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers delivers an irresistible story about love, family and finding a place to call home.
Marine archaeologist Charlotte Bennett is no stranger to risk, but her dives into sunken wreckage are always meticulously planned. However, being the maid of honor in her cousin Samantha's English wedding gives her a new perspective on her life as a nomad who's given up on romance...
59) The whisper
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
After surviving a brutal attack in Ireland, archaeologist Sophie Malone discovers that the fabled Celtic treasure she has been searching for is now in the hands of a serial killer who is using ancient rituals to satisfy a lust for violence--a discovery that causes her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Emma Fielding encounters murder and mystery on the site of an old English Abbey in this second "rip-snorting good mystery" (Aaron Elkins) written by a real-life archaeologist.
Archaeologist Emma Fielding is beginning to doubt the wisdom of spending her summer vacation in England helping friends excavate a 12th-century abbey, especially after they uncover an all-too modern skeleton in the nearby medieval graveyard. But it's the second...
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