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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young...
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Competition for a historic prize, the legendary wealth of the Knights Templar, has tantazied scholars and fortune hunters through the ages. When the search turns into a lethal game, Cotton Malone, formerly of the U.S. Dept. of Justice, is asked by a former boss to join the perilous race.
3) Holes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people -- until an investigator friend of their goes missing, and they promise to search for him. What they discover, however, will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Italy, and Siberia, the Fargos find themselves embroiled with black-market fossils, an ancient Tibetan...
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Daughter of the pirate king volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Alosa is the daughter of the Siren Queen, and her mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Now Alosa and her crew are in a deadly race with Vordan, the pirate king, to find...
6) Sting
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2016.
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When Jordie Bennet and Shaw Kinnard lock eyes across a disreputable backwater bar, something definitely sparks. Shaw gives off a dangerous vibe that makes men wary and inspires women to sit up and take notice. None feel that undercurrent more strongly than savvy businesswoman Jordie, who doesn't belong in a seedy dive on the banks of a bayou. But here she is... and Shaw Kinnard is here to kill her. As Shaw and his partner take aim, Jordie is certain...
7) Seizure
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Virals volume 2
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 12
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491 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Tory Brennan and her friends team up to save the Loggerhead Island Research Institute when it runs out of funding and make tracks for Charleston, where the treasure of the she-pirate, Anne Bonney, was lost but never found, but Tory and her friends are not the only ones searching for the treasure and their special powers might not be enough to keep them out of trouble this time around.
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2013
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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 -- as the Fargo's are about to find out....
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Daughter of the pirate king volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for.
Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map—the key to a legendary treasure trove—seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship.
More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has only one thing standing between her and the map: her...
10) Treasure Island
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Come along with Jim's friends Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney, and embark on a journey in one of literature's premiere adventure novels.
11) The backstabbers
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2020.
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"No one knows the dangers of driving a stagecoach better than Red Ryan. But he should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot. Luna asks the boys to help her find the Lucky Cuss gold mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. But...
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Oregon files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre -- who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea...
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When husband and wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo try something new, a relaxing vacation, a detour to visit a rare bookstore leads to the discovery of a dead body. All signs point to a book in the store that may contain a secret map, an actual, ink-on-paper guide to a historic fortune. The Fargos take up the challenge and find themselves flying from California to Arizona, from Jamaica to England. Racing against a vicious corporate raider with...
15) Valley of Fire
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CenterPoint
Pub. Date
2014.
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351 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Micah Bishop doesn't believe in miracles -- until a derringer-packing nun busts him out of jail. But it's not Christian charity that's driving Sister Genevieve -- she wants Micah to take her to a place called the Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. It was here where an order of nuns met their Maker, and it's Sister Genevieve's mission to see that they are given a proper funeral. Or so she claims. Micah's...
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While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo discover a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship named the Shenandoah. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery, and a rumored second artifact--but, unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. A fast-rising Mexican political party, whose members boast direct descent from Aztec royalty, is intent on finding that artifact as well, because it...
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Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men — John Chatterton and John Mattera — are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister should have been immortalized in the lore of the sea — his exploits more notorious than Blackbeard’s, more daring than Kidd’s....
18) The truth is a cave in the Black Mountains: a tale of travel and darkness with pictures of all kinds
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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73 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself... And so begins The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains, a haunting story of family, the otherworld, and a search for hidden treasure.
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2012
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English
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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through...
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Utah's history is overflowing with legends. For the past 25 years, Dale Bascom has been collecting stories, maps, and documentation about Utah's legends. In Following the Legends, he attempts to draw the line between fact and fiction in the quest for treasure and adventure. With the assistance of modern technology, GPS equipment, and mapping software, the search for treasure takes on a whole new meaning. Following the Legends combines old rumors with...
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