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Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
Author
Series
39 clues volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the reading of their grandmother's will, Dan and Amy Cahill are given the choice of receiving a million dollars or uncovering the 39 clues hidden around the world that will lead to the source of the family's power, but by taking on the clues, they end up in a dangerous race against their own family members. Maze of bones is the first in a series of 10 books.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
When Bertie the badger visits his grandfather at a retirement home for magicians, he learns that his grandfather's rabbit, Enigma, has disappeared along with everyone's magical things, and the reader is invited to help break a code to find the items hidden throughout the book. Includes a built-in decoder.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1666, after four months away, friends Christopher Rowe, Tom, and Sally return to London triumphantly but, guided by coded riddles, face a conspiracy that threatens Christopher, as well as the King himself.
67) The cipher
Author
Publisher
Viking Juvenile
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Robert 'Smiles' Smylie and his friend Ben become embroiled in a high-stakes negotiation with a pair of suspicious Feds when Ben cracks a code with the power to unlock all the Internet's secrets"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family's ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother's birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with them the secrets of the power that comes with possessing it. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing and that a series of strategically placed...
Author
Series
Volk thriller volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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
Addison Cooke volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first.
73) Spymasters
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
250 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1814, redcoats burned the White House to the ground. In 1889, Harry Houdini discovered a trick that would save his life. In 1955, the U.S. launched the world's first nuclear submarine. And one family pulled the strings behind the scenes at each of these events: the Cahills--the most powerful family the world has ever known. Now the Cahills have opened their vault and dangerous secrets are pouring out. This book contains three of them--three stories...
Author
Series
Aztec historical novels volume 7
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
76) The lost cipher
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucas's father has recently died in Afghanistan, and to help him cope, his grandmother sends him to Camp Kawani, a camp for kids who have lost a parent. While there, he hears about the local legend of Thomas Jefferson Beale. Beale supposedly hid a hoard of gold in the mountains 200 years before. The location is encrypted in a set of codes no one has ever been able to decipher. When Lucas and his newfound friends decide to track down the treasure,...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are working a new beat: the Special Investigations Unit, aka the cold case squad. Ironic, given that it’s the height of a blazing hot August. But even these hardened homicide veterans are chilled to the bone as a dormant murder case stirs to life–leading Byrne and Balzano into the dark heart of their city, their souls, and a psyche of pure evil.
Months before, a teenage...
Months before, a teenage...
Author
Series
Malcolm at midnight volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a rare coin and a strange code are uncovered in McKenna School, Malcolm and the other classroom pets of the Midnight Academy take on their most challenging assignment yet and, through their investigations, they just might save the school from closing.
80) Finding Paris
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sisters Leo and Paris Hollings have only ever had each other to rely on. They can't trust their mother, who hops from city to city and from guy to guy, or their gambler stepfather, who's moved them all to Las Vegas. When Paris disappears from the Heartbreak Hotel Diner, where moments before they had been talking with physics student Max Sullivan, Leo finds a cryptic note. Leo reluctantly accepts Max's offer of help, and the two find themselves following...
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