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Author
Series
Thomas Lourds novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Satellites have spotted impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast. World-famous linguist and archaeologist Thomas Lourds knows this could mean only one thing: The Lost Continent of Atlantis has been found. Walking away from a documentary glorifying his legendary life and achievements, he charges across oceans and continents to confirm this stunning belief.
But he is not alone. Lourds must battle a secretive and brutal society hidden...
But he is not alone. Lourds must battle a secretive and brutal society hidden...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Adopted as a child by a tech billionaire, Wynter Bates knows nothing about her origins--or the world, beyond being privileged, sheltered, and lonely. But she won't let anything stop her from investigating who she is. Especially after a high-profile scandal involving her father's past lands her on an island retreat under bodyguard Cullen Whelan's protection--in the guise of being his girlfriend . . . A former military intelligence officer, Cullen...
6) Lexicon
Author
Language
English
Description
Emily Ruff belongs to a secretive, influential organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love with Wil Jamieson who holds the key to a secret war between rival factions of "poets." In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, as the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel...
7) The ordinary
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
10) Run afoul
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
11) A watery grave
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
12) Temple
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
St. Martin's paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
William Race, a mild-mannered professor, is impressed into the U.S. army on a bizarre mission: to retrieve a centuries-old Incan idol revered by a Peruvian Indian tribe. The idol, carved out of a meteorite, is the missing ingredient in a so-called "planet-killer, " a weapon long sought not only by the U.S. government, but also by a neo-Nazi group whose scientists, linguists, and anthropologists seem to be one step ahead of the Americans. Only Race...
13) Shark Island
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
14) Deadly shoals
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
350 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An ancient poem and a mysterious burial inspire an enthralling historical and literary quest as an archeologist and linguist go on a search for the mythical King Arthur and Camelot.
16) The antiquarian
Author
Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A renowned psycholinguist delves into the confession of a once-dear friend, a rare book collector who is incarcerated in a mental institution for killing his fiancée, told to him in bits of novels, fables, and historical allusions.
17) The Lucifer code
Author
Series
Thomas Lourds novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Thomas Lourds ventures to Istanbul University in Turkey to examine artifacts never before seen by Western scholars. he's barely off the plane before he's kidnapped by ruthless people who leave a string of dead bodies in their wake. They want Lourds to translate coded writings that they hope will lead them to a lost scroll authored by John of Patmos--the same John who wrote the Book of Revelation in the Bible.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alice Howland -- Harvard professor, gifted researcher, and lecturer, wife, and mother of three grown children -- sets out for a run and soon realizes she has no idea how to find her way home. She has taken the route for years, but nothing looks familiar. She is utterly lost. Medical consults reveal early-onset Alzheimer's. Alice slowly but inevitably loses memory and connection with reality, as told from her perspective. She gradually loses the ability...
Author
Series
Space trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
The dark forces that have been repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to ultimate power for the force that can find him and bend him to its will. A sinister technocratic organization that is gaining force throughout England, N.I.C.E. (the National Institute...
Author
Series
Thomas Lourds novels volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An old friend summons dashing linguistics professor Thomas Lourds to Jerusalem to examine an ancient text. But Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also wants the same document. Khamenei and many others believe that the book contains a secret that will allow its owner to rule all of Islam and wage a Global Jihad the likes of which has never been seen before. Arriving in Jerusalem, Lourds discovers that his friend has been murdered and his...
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