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Fargo adventures volume 7
Language
English
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There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 5
Language
English
Description
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--the Fargos are about to find out.
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Set in northern Vermont in 1930, On Kingdom Mountain recounts the life and times of Miss Jane Hubbell Kinneson. A renowned local bookwoman and bird carver, she is the sole proprietor and last resident of a remote and wild mountain situated on the U.S.C̜anadian border, now threatened by the "Connector," a proposed new highway over her mountain. On Miss Jane's fiftieth birthday, a mysterious stunt pilot and weathermaker enters her life, crashing his...
4) Babylon
Author
Series
Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch volume bd. 16072
Publisher
Bastei Lubbe
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
458 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
Deutsch
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Baffin Island: Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they investigate, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered-serpent god Quetzalcoatl--and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven--begin to emerge. But so do...
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English
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" 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!'
Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr...
7) Cari Mora
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
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Series
Cassie Dewell novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The return of Cassie Dewell in Treasure State, the latest in the series that inspired the ABC hit series Big Sky, finds Cassie in Montana on the trail of a con man. Investigator Cassie Dewell--now the lead character in this year's most sensational TV crime show, Big Sky, from Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley--is headed to Anaconda, Montana, in search of a slippery con man who has disappeared somewhere in the "treasure state". A wealthy California...
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The outstanding new Sam and Remi Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. An 800-year-old treasure, an ancient cypher wheel, a brutal murder, and a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully his. Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O'Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet--a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood. Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched...
Author
Series
Gilded wolves volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Set in a darkly glamorous world The Gilded Wolves is full of mystery, decadence and dangerous but thrilling adventure. Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Severin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel,...
14) Carolina breeze
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Series
Bluebell Inn volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rising Hollywood star Mia Emerson is looking for a safe place to land in the wake of a public breakup and scandal, and she finds it in the lake town of Bluebell, North Carolina--the location of her canceled honeymoon. She wants nothing more than to hide and wait for the tabloids to die down. Soon after her arrival at the Bluebell Inn, Mia meets Levi Bennett, who runs the inn along with his two younger sisters. Drawn to one another from the start,...
15) The grave tattoo
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
467 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham, having grown up hearing stories that mutineer Fletcher Christian returned from exile on Pitcairn Island to live out his life in England, is inspired when a two-hundred-year-old corpse bearing South Pacific tattoos washes out of a hillside in the Lake District, to hunt for a rumored manuscript Wordsworth wrote about Christian's adventures, not realizing there are others who want the lost poem for personal gain and are...
16) The Lost Order
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found. Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure-one to spend...
17) The reef
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
627 p. (large print) ;
Language
English
Description
Two families attempt to recover a jeweled necklace from the depths of the ocean.
18) The confusion
Author
Series
Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
810 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune.
19) Caribbean rim
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like this. His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its director, Leonard Nickelby, despises amateur archaeologists, which is bad enough, but now he and his young "assistant" have disappeared--along with Fitzpatrick's impounded...
Author
Series
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: A long time ago, one mouse learned to fly, another landed on the moon...what will happen in the next Mouse adventure? From the creator of Lindbergh?The Tale of a Flying Mouse and Armstrong, comes Edison?The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure. When two unlikely friends build a vessel capable of taking them to the bottom of the ocean find a missing treasure?the truth turns out to be far more amazing.
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