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Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Readers have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before the Great War. Now, at last, the silence is broken and the truth revealed of a perilous journey to a secret and mysterious place hidden deep in the heart of the unforgiving desert. An adventure prompted by loyalty to an endangered friend -- and spurred on by lies and treachery -- it leads Amelia Peabody and her intrepid family into a nest of vipers lying in wait at a remote...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
It's a deadly winter for archaeologist Emma Fielding as she tracks a killer in an old New Hampshire hotel, in this fifth mystery from real-life archaeologist Dana Cameron.
Archaeologist Emma Fielding should be on top of the world. Her teaching job secure and home life stable, she arrives at an archaeological conference at a famous old New Hampshire hotel, having outrun the winter storm that's paralysing the East Coast. A rising star in the field,...
Author
Series
Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son's new bride, who have been missing in war-torn Sudan for over a decade. An enigmatic message scrawled on papyrus and a cryptic map had been delivered to Blacktower, awakening...
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
7) Catacombs
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The newest entry in Mary Anna Evans's thrilling Faye Longchamp series finds Faye in the middle of a terrifying bombing in Oklahoma City--
Author
Series
Ethan Warner novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When archaeologist Lucy Morgan is abducted after discovering an ancient tomb containing apparently extraterrestrial remains, former Afghanistan war correspondent Ethan Warner must abandon his hopes for a quiet life in order to help find her.
Author
Series
Wesley Peterson mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Reeling from her parents' deaths, Lucy Claremont discovers an artifact in their London flat, leading her to a seaside estate. Aided by her childhood friend Dashel, a forensic astronomer, they start to unravel a history of heartbreak, sacrifice, and love begun 200 years prior - one that may heal them both"--Provided by publisher.
11) The blood gospel
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christ's own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 20
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth Peters's bestselling, beloved mystery series"--
Author
Series
School for dukes volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a priceless relic is stolen from the British Museum, archaeologist India Rochester must team up with Daniel Bonds, the Duke of Ravenwood, the antiquities hunter who broke her heart, to find the artifact and save her career.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"--
15) Unearthed
Author
Series
Unearthed volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Scholar Jules Addison and scavenger Amelia Radcliffe join forces to unravel secrets of a long-extinct civilization, only to discover something that could spell the end of the human race.
16) Century rain
Author
Publisher
Orbit/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Verity Auger spends her time exploring the landscape of Earth, which has been rendered uninhabitable by a technological catastrophe, and when a section of mid-twentieth century Earth is found perfectly preserved, she believes sh has found a link to the past that may help her protect the future.
17) The reef
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Underwater diver Matthew Lassiter and Tate Beaumont, a student of marine archeology, search shipwrecks for a 16th century necklace. Together they brave danger--the necklace was cursed by its owner, a witch burned at the stake--and danger leads to love.
18) Saguaro sanction
Author
Series
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Janelle Ortega's cousin from Mexico is found brutally murdered at a remote petroglyph site in Saguaro National Park, she and her husband, archaeologist Chuck Bender, are drawn deep into a threatening web of hostility and deceit stretching south across the US-Mexico border and back in time a thousand years, to when the Hohokam people thrived in the Sonoran Desert"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier--or turns on them instead.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer"--
North Norfolk. The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, uncover a Bronze Age hoard on the beach-- near a recently deceased body. Not long after, the same group uncover the apparent...
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