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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.
Author
Publisher
Signature Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alex McKelvey longs to fit in. She doesn't realize that her earth-mother style--the connections she feels toward the earth and to a certain eerie pictograph panel--sets her off from the crowd. Wanting only to enjoy the beauty of the Utah desert, she packs up her gear and her Siberian husky, Kit, and joins an archaeological dig. But when the site's owner vanishes, forces combine to sweep up Alex and Kit in a whirlwind of pot hunting, witchcraft, and...
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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...
5) 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.
7) 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
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English
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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.
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English
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When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Despite traces of sleeping tablets in his system, several clues that only a mother knows lead her to believe something more sinister took place. However Louise soon realizes that Henrik had kept many things from her and is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy...
10) 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...
Author
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...
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...
Author
Series
Hannah Bryson volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While mapping the ancient underwater city of Marinth in the Atlantic Ocean, submersible designer Hannah Bryson makes a shocking discovery: she may have finally uncovered the truth about the once-glorious city's mysterious demise. Long ago it was a thriving metropolis bursting with culture and life -- Marinth's sudden disappearance has plagued scientists for years. But now, with her unexpected new findings, Hannah realizes that the ancient city's explosive...
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...
15) The survivor
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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.
16) The whisper
Author
Series
BPD-FBI volume 4
Publisher
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
465 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A year ago Sophie Malone barely survived being left for dead in a blood-soaked Irish cave. Haunted by her experience, she immerses herself in her archeology research. But now the fabled Celtic treasure she believes disappeared from that cave has resurfaced in Boston, in the hands of a serial killer. Boston detective Cyrus "Scoop" Wisdom has recovered from an explosion that nearly took his life. Now he's after the person who planted the bomb -- and...
Author
Series
Hannah Bryson volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
403 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant marine architect Hannah Bryson has been given the job of a lifetime. A U.S. maritime museum has just acquired the decommissioned Soviet submarine Silent Thunder for public exhibition. Itś Hannahś job to make sure that every single inch of the legendary nuclear attack sub is safe for the thousands of visitors anticipated. Enlisting the aid of her brother, Connor, they examine the enormous vessel and delve into its long---and lethal---history....
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,...
19) The last Templar
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
In a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Orderś dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace. In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth...
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."
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