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1) Birthright
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English
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Overseeing the excavation of an ancient skeleton at a small-town construction site, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook copes with accidents and rumors that the project is cursed, a situation that is complicated by a stranger's claims about her past.
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English
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"When Ursula Kern, proprietor of the Kern Secretarial Agency, discovers the body of one of her best secretaries, she immediately suspects murder. But no one, including the police, believes her. So Ursula seeks the help of her newest and most mysterious client, Slater Roxton"--
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English
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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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English
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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.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 2
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English
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Amelia Emerson and her archaeologist husband leave England to assume leadership of an expedition in Egypt struck with tragedy and mystery.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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 DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern--the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily's Cambridge tutor and also on another archeology enthusiast who was...
8) After dark
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Planet Harmony series volume 2
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Jove Books
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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Yusuf Khalifa novels volume 1
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers--and hearts--in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro "Corrie" Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her ancestor, Chimalli, an ancient warrior of the Aztec empire. But when she is invited to join an all-expenses-paid dig to do just that, Corrie...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
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English
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32-year-old Victorian gentlewoman, Amelia Peabody receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and...
13) Haunted ground
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Series
Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The Irish landscape holds secrets past and present as archaeologist Cormac O'Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin encounter a mystery when a decapitated woman is found in the bogs who may be related to a recent mother/child disappearance.
14) After glow
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Series
Planet Harmony series volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Large Print
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Para-archaeologist Lydia Smith, while lost in the catacombs beneath the city of Harmony, makes a startling discovery that calls into question everything she believes about her lover, Emmett London.
15) Shadow zone
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
Description
Archaeologist Gideon Chase receives a cryptic letter after his estranged father's suicide. Now Gideon must team up with an intrepid policewoman to expose a secret international society of Stonehenge cultists, whose ruthless new leader performs human sacrifices to unlock the secret of the stones.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
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English
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The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
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Fargo adventures volume 6
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English
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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...
20) Island of glass
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Guardians trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The final Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bay of Sighs and Stars of Fortune. As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his warrior spirit is still drawn to the wild. And there's no one more familiar with the wild than Riley--and the wolf within her... An archaeologist, Riley is no stranger...
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