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Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Now a film for Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and James Tupper!
Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years -- and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured professor, she has recently unearthed evidence of a seventeenth-century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years....
63) Rituals
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Faye Longchamp meets Spiritualist Tilda Armistead while working in Rosebower, New York, a town founded by Spiritualists. When Tilda's murdered shortly after giving Faye a session to commune with the dead, she's determined to find out who killed her.
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Language
English
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Description
"Modern science and primordial supernatural powers collide as war rages in 1944. Struggling to decipher the contents of a sarcophagus from an Egyptian tomb, Lucas and Simone unwittingly release forces for both good and unmitigated evil. The fate of the world hangs on Professor Einstein's secret research and on Lucas's ability to defeat an unholy adversary"--
66) Old bones
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt, is approached by the handsome Historian, Guy Porter, to lead an expedition unlike any other. Guy tells his story--one involving the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Emma Fielding encounters murder and mystery on the site of an old English Abbey in this second "rip-snorting good mystery" (Aaron Elkins) written by a real-life archaeologist.
Archaeologist Emma Fielding is beginning to doubt the wisdom of spending her summer vacation in England helping friends excavate a 12th-century abbey, especially after they uncover an all-too modern skeleton in the nearby medieval graveyard. But it's the second...
68) Plunder
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle.
69) Century rain
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust.Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose.Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device capable...
70) The curse
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Art investigator Madison Dupre knows a fake when she sees it. When the mysterious Dr. Kaseem offers to pay her a handsome sum to "ransom" a scarab stolen from the tomb of King Tut, her gut tells her to walk away. Since she still needs to pay the rent, Madison throws caution to wind and prepares to search for the Heart of Egypt.
Before she can pack a suitcase, she finds herself framed for murder and on the run. Her leads take her to Stonehenge, England,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Ren was only twelve years old, she lost her older brother, Scott, to a car accident. Since then, Scott has been a presence in her life, appearing with a snatch of a song or a reflection in the moonlight. Now, twenty-five years later, her talent for connecting with the ghosts around her has made her especially sensitive as an archaeologist. More than just understanding the bare outline of how our ancestors lived, Ren is dedicated to re-creating...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Drabble strikes gold with this novel about a famous archaeologist who is passionately in love with a married, slightly mad and very moral man. Alive with feeling and intelligence, endearing characters and feminist insights, this is one of the very best by an immensely gifted author.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When archaeologist Lucy Morgan is abducted after discovering an ancient tomb containing apparently extraterrestrial remains, former Afghanistan war correspondent Ethan Warner must abandon his hopes for a quiet life in order to help find her.
75) Heart of fire
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fabulous lost Amazon city once inhabited by women warriors and containing a rare red diamond: it sounded like myth, but archeologist Jillian Sherwood believed it was real, and she was willing to put up with anything to find it--even Ben Lewis. Ruffian, knock-about, and number one river guide in Brazil, Ben was all man, over six feet of rock-hard muscles that rippled under his khakis, with lazy blue eyes that taunted her from his tanned face. Jillian...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Elizabeth Butler, alienated from the present because of a traumatic personal history, finds happiness excavating the ruins of a Mayan city. Soon she is joined by her grown daughter, Diane, facing her own problems. Then the specter of a millennium-dead Mayan priestess appears and demands Elizabeth restore the past with a blood sacrifice: the death of Diane.
78) The enchantment
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Mmaline Hatter was a beautiful, brilliant, and rich Wall Street financier in the nineteenth century until the crash of 1893 wiped her out completely. Desperate to recoup her losses, she joins Dr. Larence Digby in his search for the legendary lost city of Cibola, rumored to be rich in gold. Emmaline was used to getting her own way, but Larence was not about to give up control of his expedition to a woman. Somehow, in a world of enchantment, each would...
80) The discovery
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
The potential discovery of a long-lost text of the last words of God, inscribed by Moses, and its profound cultural, political, and theological implications initiates an international archaeological treasure hunt.
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