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Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (409 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
For a few dollars: The Man with No Name is back as he teams up with another gunslinger to get the bounty on a notorious bandit. But as they close in on their...
Author
Series
Marah Chase volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Once a rising star in the field of archaeology, Marah Chase is now a black-market treasure hunter, her services available to the highest bidder. But when she's caught "rescuing" relics in Syria before they're destroyed by war, an MI6 officer named Joanna Mason approaches her with an offer she can't refuse: help save the world or rot in prison. All Chase has to do is find Alexander the Great's lost tomb, recover an ancient weapon of mass destruction...
524) Sword of shadows
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A quest to find the ancient sword Excalibur quickly turns into a hunt for a determined killer for Crispin Guest. London, 1396. A trip to the swordsmith shop for Crispin Guest, Tracker of London, and his apprentice Jack Tucker takes an unexpected turn when Crispin crosses paths with Carantok Teague, a Cornish treasure hunter. Carantok has a map he is convinced will lead him to the sword of Excalibur - a magnificent relic dating back to King Arthur...
526) Sabu!
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (286 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elephant Boy: A young mahout leads the British on an expedition through the jungle.
The drum: A young prince goes into hiding with colonial forces after his nefarious uncle murders his maharaja father.
Jungle book: Mowgli is a boy raised by wolves who can communicate with all the beasts of the jungle, friend or foe, and who gradually acclimates to civilization with the help of his long-lost mother and a beautiful village girl.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 380 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long trek that would splinter the family over thousands of miles. Many years and upheavals later, Hsu, raised in Salt Lake City and armed only with curiosity, moves to China to work in his uncle's semiconductor chip business....
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"...Unearths the mysteries of the Mawangdui (mah-wahng-dway) tombs, one of China's top archaeological finds of the last century. Miniature servants, mysterious silk paintings, scrolls of long-lost secrets, and the best preserved mummy in the world (the body of Lady Dai) are just some of the artifacts that shed light upon life in China during the Han dynasty."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland-and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 288 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Quest for the Spear: Flynn Carsen is hired by the Metropolitan Public Library as a librarian. What Flynn does not realize is that the library has existed for centuries and protects a range of historical and often magical items in a secret section of the library. When part of the Spear of Destiny is stolen from the library, Flynn must recover it with the help of Nicole Noone.
Return to King Solomon's Mines: Flynn attends a party at his mother's house,...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicle of an expedition into the Llanganati Mountains of Ecuador in search of 750 tons of worked gold, which the Incas hid from the Spanish conquistadors after Pizarro executed the Sun King, Atahualpa.
532) Treasure hunter
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, map ; 26 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
This summer, Matilda is going on vacation with her friends, the Jolley-Rogers. Their destination is the island of Scurvy Sands, a favorite destination for pirates. When Matilda arrives, the swashbuckling residents are none too impressed with her. She has clean clothes and doesn't smell like she's been at sea for six months -- it's clear she's no pirate. But when Matilda discovers the secret of the legendary treasure of Scurvy Sands, the pirates decide...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Conan the barbarian: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom.
Conan the destroyer: Conan is asked by the evil Queen Taramis to accompany a beautiful young princess to find a magic treasure. If he returns with the treasure and the virgin, the Queen promises to bring Conan's...
537) The secret portrait
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
538) A sea of gold
Author
Series
Kydd novels volume 21
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 382 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, first to glory, then ruin. The French fleet is massing in the Basque Roads in a near impregnable position....
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