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1) Birthright
Author
Language
English
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Description
During a week-long birthday party on a Greek millionaire's island, ex- Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein soon begins to worry that something strange is going on. The birthday girl, Elissa Paroskolos, seems almost out of her mind and her husband is overly protective. Gradually, Gregory uncovers a plot which could involve three nations in a scandal. In the end, only he and Liz can save Elissa.
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Series
Language
English
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When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote, wild place called Saltmarsh, overlooking the North Sea under Norfolk's vast skies. When a child's bones are found in the marshes, Ruth is asked to date them.
3) The whisper
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It was meant to be an adventure, a night alone on a remote Irish island. Archaeologist Sophie Malone never expected to find Celtic treasure or to end up in a fight for her life in a dark, desolate cave. Now, a year later, she's convinced answers to the mysteries of that night lie in Boston. Who has the priceless gold artifacts that disappeared from the cave...and who is responsible for the whispers she heard in the dark? Nearly killed in an explosion...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1922, and The Great War is over. With the world at peace, Amelia and her family return to the Valley of the Kings to explore its storied sands. But they are quickly troubled by treacherous secrets and murder. A woman presents them with a priceless but dangerous artifact--a golden king said to bring death to all who possess it. The woman's husband has already fallen, and now she needs help to return the relics to its tomb.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Revisiting Egypt in 1917 with her husband, son, and daughter-in-law, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody stumbles across a murdered body, a situation that is complicated by an assignment from British intelligence and her daughter-in-law's troubling secret.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking perilous missions for British intelligence and no old enemies...
8) Stone heart
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Bantam trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 338 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nomadic archaeologist Maria Dark is returning home again to the Connecticut shore-a magical place where she, her sister Sophie, and their brother Peter spent their childhood on the banks of Bell Stream. After fifteen years away, Maria hopes that she can rediscover the joy and optimism of her youth in the arms of her family. But things have changed. Maria's siblings and her mother have weathered difficult times.
9) Century rain
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device...
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English
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It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich 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?
Ruth and Detective Harry Nelson would like to find...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Amanda Peabody and husband Emerson are determined to return to their beloved Egypt to excavate at Giza despite the war with Germany. They are immediately plunged into danger when their son, Ramses, is attacked in the streets of Cairo. Since Sethos, the Peabodys' arch enemy, died in this work's predecessor (He Shall Thunder in the Sky), someone else is the culprit. Trailing the usual entourage of friends and loyal servants, Peabody and company must...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 14
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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.
13) Lake of sorrows
Author
Series
Nora Gavin and Cormac Maguire series volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
328 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pathologist Nora Gavin is summoned again to the mystical boglands of central Ireland to examine a long-buried body, recently unearthed. After her arrival a second, more recent victim is found bearing similar ritualistic wounds, darkly suggestive of ancient pagan sacrifice. Among those assembled to investigate is archaeologist Cormac Maguire, with whom Nora had a tumultuous affair she'd like to forget. A few more grisly corpses, a village with too...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
On the death of her father, 32-year old Victorian heiress Amelia Peabody travels Egypt to indulge her interest in Egyptology. She travels with Evelyn Barton-Forbes and her trusty parasol which comes in handy on more than one occasion. In Cairo the pair meet archaeologists Radcliffe and Walter Emerson and sparks fly between Radcliffe and Amelia. The groups meet again at Emerson's excavation where Amelia saves Radcliffe's life and takes charge of his...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 20
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
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 in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth Peters's bestselling, beloved mystery series"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357, 18 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Lady Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, brought up in stunning Highclere Castle. Popular and pretty, she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage, but she had other ideas. Instead, she left behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the Egyptian desert, where she hoped to become a lady archaeologist, working alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb. In November 1922, their...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 277 pages : illustration, genealogical table ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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"Just back from maternity leave, forensic archeologist Ruth is finding it hard to juggle motherhood and work when she is called in to investigate human bones that have surfaced on a remote Norfolk beach. The presence of DCI Harry Nelson, the married father of her daughter, does not help. The bones, six men with their arms bound, turn out date back to World War II, a desperate time on this stretch of coastland. Home Guard veteran Archie Whitcliffe...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The dark legends of Scotland were an archaeologist's dream. Verity Grey was thrilled to be at a dig for an ancient Roman camp in the Scottish village. But danger was in the air--in the icy reserve of archeologist David Fortune. In the haunted eyes to the little boy who had visions of a slain Roman sentinel. And in the unearthly sound of the ghostly Shadowy Horses, who carried men away to the land of the dead.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world looking for the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships--revealing...
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