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Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 2
Language
English
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A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly when the group heads out on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave and makes an astonishing find.
2) Old bones
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled Yale student William Johnson. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win...
Author
Series
Alien agent volume 3
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Young alien agent Zack joins an archaeological dig in Mongolia to ensure that there is no trouble from the dinosaur-like scientists from Vraj's home planet who are on a similar dig nearby.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Professor Jeremy Logan is brought onto famed explorer Porter Stone's archaeological team to investigate a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences that are causing people on the expedition to fear a centuries-old curse behind Pharoah Narmer's elusive "double" crown of the two Egypts. As paranoia and fear run rampant, Logan must delve into the mysteries of ancient Egyptology and near death experience in order to understand what might be plaguing...
8) The Legends
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Christie and her friend Josh Welles are in the middle of the greatest archaeological exploration of modern times. Along with her father, they are all searching for the sacred Talismans of the Moon -- the keys to the ancient world. Their first stop is the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Next, they journey to the sacred mountains of China, and then on into the deep jungles of South America. Their final expedition takes them far into India, beyond...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Underwater divers Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala battle a secret Spanish brotherhood which is plotting to regain Spanish territory taken by the U.S. The action ranges from the decks of a sunken passenger liner in the Atlantic to an underwater Mayan temple. By the author of Flood Tide.
10) The dragon pearl
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Two teenage boys accompanying their parents on an archaeological dig discover a dragon within a secret tomb.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 21
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
2005, 1988.
Language
English
14) Dangerous ground
Author
Series
Fiona Carver novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Archaeologist Fiona Carver has unfinished business in the Aleutian Islands. After an emergency evacuation cut her first expedition short, she's finally back. But time is not on her side as she races to finish documenting the remnants of a prehistoric village, recover missing artifacts, and track down missing volcanologist Dylan Slater. Having bluffed his way onto Fiona's team with fake credentials, wildlife photographer Dean Slater is willing to risk...
15) Serpent
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin, leader of a National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA) team, rescues marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco and becomes the target of Don Halcon, Texas industrialist. Halcon's scheme of carving a new nation out of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico hinges on Nina's discovery of an antiquity in the remains of the sunken Andrea Doria.
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