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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Another entertaining and enlightening entry in the Bruno, Chief of Police series, featuring an archaeological dig in the French countryside that unearths World War II-era mysteries-all while Bruno dishes up more culinary magic When Abby, an American archaeologist, arrives in St. Denis on the heels of her divorce, she hopes to make a new life for herself as a specialist guide for visiting tourists. So when a local British couple discover a grave...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an archeology student, who went missing in 2002, is found during the renovation of a cafe, Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson uncover a tangled web of relationships between the archeology group and the cafe.
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Language
English
Description
"Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical archaeologist, has come to the sun-soaked village of Positano to investigate the mysterious shipwrecks along the Amalfi Coast. But Haven is hoping to find more than old artifacts beneath the azure waters; she is secretly on a quest to locate a trove of priceless gemstones her late father spotted on his final dive. Upon Haven's arrival, strange maelstroms and misfortunes start plaguing the town. Is it nature...
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English
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"It's been only a few months since forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing-child case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old mansion to make way for a new development uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway, minus its skull, Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand? When carbon dating proves...
6) Excavations
Author
Publisher
Hypervia
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discover an unusual artifact. It's a piece of history that definitely shouldn't exist. And for the head archaeologist in charge, a relic himself, it means something's gone horribly wrong. Elise, Kara, Z and Patty all find themselves digging here together, but they couldn't be farther apart. Kara's a polished conservator calling off her wedding. Patty and her...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 16
Language
English
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The return of the Emerson family to Luxor for the 1917 digging season is soon complicated by a ransacked royal tomb, a corpse, and a secret mission for Ramses to the beseiged city of Gaza.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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Description
In this "Amelia Peabody Mystery", the intrepid Egyptologist risks life, limb, and her second-best hat in 1915 Cairo. Amelia and her handsome archeologist husband defy German submarines and warring Senussi to embark on another season of exploration and crime solving.
9) Thunderhead
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
viii, 483 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Nora Kelly discovers unbelievable riches and inescapable death when she comes into possession of a mysterious letter written by her father, who vanished sixteen years earlier, in which he divulges the location of the legendary Quivira, the Anasazi Indians' lost city of gold.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 14
Language
English
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Description
Intrepid archaeologist/sleuth Amelia Peabody and her family, back in Egypt in 1914 for another season of archaeological excavation, become caught up in the political turmoil sweeping the country, and when an exquisite artifact from a Giza dig is found where it ought not be, Amelia realizes her villainous arch-nemesis Sethos is at work.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her — a canyon “as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar — the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's...
12) Blood sisters
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Language
English
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"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island as an...
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Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 20
Language
English
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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. Arriving in Cairo for another thrilling excavation season, Amelia is relaxing in a well-earned bubble bath in her elegant hotel suite in Cairo when a man with a knife protruding from his back staggers into the bath chamber...
14) Deadlock
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (12 hr., 20 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Emily Hudson is an archeologist who travels the world in search of priceless artifacts from war-torn countries and other hot spots. Her best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is always at her side; until one day, her entire crew is massacred and Joel and Emily are held captive. Victims of one of the most ruthless and evil human beings on earth. For two weeks they try to survive, until Emily is the unwitting instrument in Joel's demise. John Garrett...
Series
The Marlow murder club volume s. 1
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retired archaeologist Judith Potts's peaceful evening in Marlow is shattered when she witnesses a brutal murder. With the local police, led by newly promoted DS Tanika Malik, reluctant to believe her story, Judith teams up with local dog-walker Suzie and unfulfilled vicar's wife Becks to investigate.
16) Time's agent
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Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Following humanity’s discovery of pocket worlds, teams of academics embarked on groundbreaking exploratory missions, eager to study this new technology and harness the potential of a seemingly limitless horizon. 'What would you do, given another universe, a do-over?' Archeologist Raquel and her wife, Marlena, once dreamed the pocket worlds held the key to solving the universe’s mysteries. But forty years later, pocket worlds are now controlled...
17) The survivor
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xix, 481 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind the creation of modern-day Iraq. Born into privilege in 1868, Bell turned her back on Victorian society, choosing to read history at Oxford and going on to become an archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer,...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Special Agent Pendergast try to solve a 130-year-old serial murder case after the dismembered remains of thirty-six people are found on the site of a nineteenth-century moneymaking spectacle called a "cabinet of curiosities."
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bestselling authors Preston and Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in a thrilling blend of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense. For as the real truth of what happened--one that is far more shocking and bizarre than mere cannibalism--those ancient horrors lead to present-day violence on a grand scale.and scale.
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