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"A submerged car is pulled from the bottom of the lake. The driver has been shot in the back of the head and no other bodies are found. Only the legendary Dragon's Heart remains inside. When it rises to the surface, greedy collectors from around the world gather. They'll stop at nothing to gain possession of the priceless artifact. Only one person stands in their way... Zoe Phoenix remembers nothing about her early childhood; her mother's desire to...
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Heirloom secrets volume 2
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English
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Charleston, 1929: A spark forms between Eliza, a talented watercolorist, and William, a young man whose family has a longstanding feud with hers over a missing treasure. Present day: after inheriting Eliza's house and all its secrets from a mysterious benefactor, Lucy is determined to preserve the property. Declan Pinckney is set on buying her house for his family's development company. As Lucy uncovers secrets about the house, its garden, and a silver...
3) Relic
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Pendergast novels volume 1
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English
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An unusual figurine and the Amazon Basin archaeologists who found the relic are at the heart of a mystery surrounding a series of brutal killings at New York's Museum of Natural History.
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"North Chastain has always had the mysterious ability to channel energy through crystals. He and his father both have the ability, which is what the doctors believe is the cause of his father's sudden coma. But North knows that isn't the case. He's convinced it was brought on by an artifact his father had been looking for--and found. With his unique talent of channeling energy through crystals, North has the best chance at recovering the artifact,...
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"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, Dirk Pitt and the NUMA agency are on a diving expedition in the English Channel...
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Archaeologist Dr. Socorro "Corrie" Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her ancestor, Chimalli, an ancient warrior of the Aztec empire. But when she is invited to join an all-expenses-paid dig to do just that, Corrie is sure it's too good to be true... and she's right. As the world-renowned expert on Chimalli, by rights Corrie should...
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Ben Walker novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Golden's chilling exploration of what happens when the original Pandora's Box is discovered in an ancient subterranean city, stirring international conflict and exposing the archaeological team to curses, whispers, and the terror of a legendary plague. In one ancient variation on the myth, there were two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister, Anesidora. One contained all the blessings of the gods, the other all the world's curses. Now, in a...
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Gideon Sable novels volume 2
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Master thief, rogue and chancer Gideon Sable is back for another fast-paced supernatural heist - and this time he has the vault of a Las Vegas casino in his sights. Judi Rifkin is one of the world's most successful collectors of the weird and unnatural. In a London underworld filled with criminals with very special talents, Judi is a force to be reckoned with. And Gideon Sable - thief, rogue, and chancer - owes her a very large favour. Judi makes...
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Gods of blood and powder volume 2
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
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First edition.
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639 pages : map ; 25 cm.
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English
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The country is in turmoil. With the capital city occupied, half a million refugees are on the march, looking for safety on the frontier, accompanied by Lady Flint's soldiers. But escaping war is never easy, and soon the battle may find them, whether they are prepared or not.
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Pegasus Crime
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[2018]
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First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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288 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Gina "Tinkerbell" Miyoko is armed with a baby blue Magnum, a Harley blessed with Holy Water, and a Japanese mingei tucked in her pocket. She usually spends her time sniffing out delinquent dads in the San Francisco Bay area. When her friend Rose, an undercover agent scheduled to testify in an upcoming case on looted Mayan artifacts, has a stalker on her tail, she hires Tink as a bodyguard. Things get dangerous, and Tink ends up deep in a Mexican jungle,...
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