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21) Shatterproof
Author
Language
English
Description
Targeted by Interpol after a series of spectacular heists, a reluctant Amy and Dan are ordered by Vesper One to steal the world's largest diamond, a demand that is challenged by their efforts to rescue the Cahill hostages and stop a Vesper mole.
Author
Series
Jerusalem prophecies novels volume 1
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
History's greatest secret could be tomorrow's greatest threat. When an ancient scroll appears in a secret room of the Bowery Mission in New York City, Tom Bohannon is both stunned and intrigued. The enigma of the scroll's contents will send Bohannon and his team ricocheting around the world, drawing the heat of both Jewish and Muslim militaries, and bringing the Middle East to the brink of nuclear war in this heart-pounding adventure of historical...
Author
Series
Mermaid tales volume 19
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover/paperback edition.
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kiki and her friends learn about coding as they compete to be the escort for young narwhal who will visit Trident Academy with her famous parents. Includes glossary, key to the codes used, and information about safeguarding narwhals' habitats.
24) Storm warning
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 9
Language
English
Description
When Amy and Dan learn the truth about the Madrigals and Grace Cahill's alternate will, these discoveries lead to the revelation of a secret about their family and a showdown with the man in black who has been following them.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to discover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guide to the characters and situations in "The 39 Clues" outlines the Cahills' secrets, including hidden facts, strategies, agents, lost founders, secret bases, and scandals, as well as information about all branches of the family.
Author
Series
Ruby Redfort volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An adventure on the wide open ocean, and Ruby is all at sea. Can she crack the case while evading the clutches of the evil Count von Viscount? Well, you wouldn't want to bet against her.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II--an experience Eva remembers well--and the search to reunite people...
Author
Series
Sly the sleuth mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
133 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sly uses her detective skills to help her friends solve mysteries that all involve some kind of code.
33) A king's ransom
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister Amy race against time to find an ancient map that has not been seen for half a century and use it to redeem their family members who have been kidnapped by a sinister organization called the Vespers.
Author
Series
William Wenton volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Code-breaking genius William Wenton returns to the Institute for Post-Human Research in hopes of discovering why the intelligent metal luridium in his body seems to be causing seizures, but while there he encounters secrets, increased security, and threats from an enemy he thought was frozen in the basement.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The week before New Year's Eve and genealogist Lucy Lancaster is mixing work and play quite nicely at the boutique Sutton Hotel in Austin, Texas. After two months of research she's finalizing her presentation for hotel heiress Pippa Sutton. When a strange man comes staggering toward her and presses a classic Montblanc pen into her hand, he whispers, "keep them safe," and collapses at her feet, dead. Lucy's grandpa is a collector, but has an odd reaction...
36) The finisher
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 1
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn't unusual, nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave, but that he was chased. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying beasts and bloodthirsty Outliers. But just as deadly are the threats that exist within...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jax and Ethan must decode an ancient Greek cipher to uncover the location of two magical urns before the urns are used to remove all faith and love from the world.
Author
Series
Ruby Redfort volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
491 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a ghostly foe begins stealing from the highest buildings in Twinford, Ruby Redfort is ready to defy death one more time to capture the bandit.
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 1
Language
English
Description
When their beloved aunt--matriarch of the world's most powerful family--dies, orphaned siblings Amy and Dan Cahill compete with less honorable Cahill descendants in a race around the world to find cryptic clues to a mysterious fortune.
40) The black circle
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 5
Language
English
Description
A mysterious telegram sends Amy and Dan Cahill off to Russia, where they search for a treasure stolen by the Nazis, the truth about the end of the Romanov dynasty, and information about the death of their parents.
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