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61) Birthright
Author
Language
English
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Description
Curious people want to know: is dashing millionaire Rory Kincaid about to resign his position as the "sexiest man in town"? If Rory decides to step down as the most eligible bachelor in America, millions of women will be left crying on his way to the altar... Rory Kincaid has everyone talking...and the women swooning. After a lifetime of living down his family's scandalous past, the handsome public figure decides to take up the mantle of respectability....
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
For centuries the tombs of the Pharaos were haunted by a deadly curse. And when two eminent archaeologists have died mysteriously, Judith Osmond was certain that it was the curse at work. Then, overnight, her life changed. There was an unexpected inheritance. Then Tybalt, a young archaeologist and the man she adored, asked her to marry him. But Tybalt planned a honeymoon amid the tombs of the Pharoahs, and suddenly it looked as if the curse of the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual meeting place and find her a mate. But the unforgiving landscape takes its toll, and Girl is left alone to care for Runt, a foundling of unknown origin. As Girl and Runt face the coming winter storms, Girl realizes...
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A team of archaeologists led by Dr. John Fielding ... descends on the ruins of an ancient Mayan city to investigate the mysterious disappearance of its inhabitants. However, the luckless explorers get more than they bargained for when their investigation of a sacriticial pool awakens the monster that dwells within its waters - the fearsome and malevolent god Caltiki"--Container.
Series
[Indiana Jones films] volume 3
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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Description
Indy's Nazi enemies are back and have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. to get help in their search for the Holy Grail. Following a trail from America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father, save the Grail and save the day.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity--plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity's survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below. Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist...
68) Stone heart
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Maria Dark returns to Connecticut after years of traveling as an archaeologist, she learns that her sister's once-idyllic marriage is now permeated with a dangerously perverse obsession, in a powerful novel of family bonds and home.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the discoveries of four hominins including Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man and Iceman, offering insight into how archaeologists analyzed the remains of each to further their understanding of ancient human behavior.
Author
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she has found the location of the lost city of Atlantis and now she wants the opportunity to prove her theory. Someone else though wants her dead! With the help of ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase and beautiful heiress Kari Frost, Nina faces a breakneck race against time around the world, pursued at every step by agents of the mysterious - and murderous - Brotherhood of Selasphoros. From the jungles of Brazil to the mountains...
Author
Series
Anasazi mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward in time toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody volume 10
Language
English
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Description
Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family experience various adventures in Egypt early this century while accompanying her husband who is digging in tombs. The boys go undercover in search of a villain while the daughter becomes involved in the local version of women's lib.
73) Strangers
Author
Series
Faye Longchamp mystery volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An archeological trip to St. Augustine, Florida, turns ugly when a woman disappears, leaving behind blood, priceless artifacts, a note asking for Faye's help, and impending danger for her family.
Author
Series
Devil you know volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Famed and brilliant, Lady Alexandra Lane has always known how to look out for to herself. But nobody would ever expect that she has darkness in her past-one that she pays a blackmailer to keep buried. Now, with her family nearing bankruptcy, Alexandra strikes upon a solution: Get married to one of the empire's most wealthy eligible bachelors. Even if he does have the reputation of a devil. Piers Gedrick Atherton, the Duke of Redmayne, is seeking...
Publisher
Lucasfilm Ltd
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Gertrude Bell was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell became an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, and mountaineer. Her vast knowledge of the Middle East made her indispensable to the British government during World War I. As an army major on the front lines in Mesopotamia, she supported the creation of an autonomous Arab nation for Iraq, promoting and manipulating...
Author
Series
[Matt Howard series] volume 2
Publisher
CFI
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When Matt accepts an invitation to a Mayan festival, she has no idea she's about to be plunged into a world of ancient secrets and impending doom. Now she'll have to warn the world of what's comingbefore it's too late. Full of action and suspense, this must-read will change the way you think about the past, the present, and the future.
78) Storm cycle
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
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. John has discovered something very valuable in that tomb, something that humankind has been searching for throughout history, something that Rachel could use as it may hold the key to her sister's cure.
79) Bonekickers
Publisher
Acorn Media
Language
English
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Description
Dr. Gillian Magwilde leads an intrepid team of archaeologists as they come across mud, blood, and death-defying adventure when they start digging. A blend of modern forensics with historical mysteries.
Army of God: Archaeology professor Gregory 'Dolly' Parton's dig in Somerset stumbles upon mysterious early 14th century remains from both parties of the Knights Templar crusade fight against the Turkish Saracen sultan Mamluk's troops for Jerusalem....
Publisher
Monarch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Canada's remote wilderness becomes a chilly catalyst for terror as a group of archaeologists uncover a strange structure buried in the snow. As paranoia and mistrust take hold, the researchers turn on each other, encouraged by visions of a mysterious figure lurking at the fringes of the woods.
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