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A map which may point to a cache of gold lost during the Civil War leads a young treasure hunter on the adventure of a lifetime—one step ahead of Quantrill's raiders. "Estleman has no rival in evoking the American Southwest."—Kirkus Reviews "Estleman rivals the finest American novelists."—The Washington Post Book World Loren D. Estleman is a four-time Golden Spur Award winner
2) Lost empire
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2010
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English
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Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt for a relic--but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death.
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Fargo adventures volume 5
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Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them-- as the Fargos are about to find out.
4) Deep Trouble
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"Gabe Lasley abandoned his ranch in Wyoming because of his strong feelings for a married woman, wanting only to be left alone. Then he finds a treasure hunter stranded in a mountaintop cave and offers to help her. A determined Shannon Dysart is on a quest to prove her father's research isn't the work of a madman and that he really did find treasure in the Wild West. then she finds herself stranded, with an aimless wanderer her only way out. Now the...
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy.
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named...
The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named...
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2009
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When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
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A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple.
Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. While scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water... and...
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My weirder school volume 4
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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After budget cuts threaten the art and music programs at Ella Mentry School, as well as some services, groundskeeper Burke finds gold and "gilver" on the playground, causing a modern-day gold rush.
10) The trespassers
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Andrew J. Fenady has been justly rewarded for his exceptional fiction with the Owen Wister Award, the Western Writers of America's most prestigious honor. The author's immense talent is on full display in The Trespassers, the tale of four soldiers of fortune who slip into Mexico to nab five million dollars in buried gold. Before they can get their hands on this fortune, however, the rugged band will have to face off against comancheros, hostile Indians-and...
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Van Shaw novels volume 3
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"A favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw"--Amazon.com.
13) Valley of Fire
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Micah Bishop doesn't believe in miracles -- until a derringer-packing nun busts him out of jail. But it's not Christian charity that's driving Sister Genevieve -- she wants Micah to take her to a place called the Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. It was here where an order of nuns met their Maker, and it's Sister Genevieve's mission to see that they are given a proper funeral.
14) The kingdom
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Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, not people; but a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea. An investigator friend of the Fargos was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father, and now the investigator is missing too. On a journey that takes them to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Tibetan...
16) Eyes of fire
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Get swept away by this classic romantic suspense by the queen of the genre, New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, where a treasure in the ocean is worth killing for.
Having already lost two men in her life to the lure of the bounty beneath the sea, Samantha Carlyle wants nothing to do with treasure hunts. She wants to be left in peace to run her dive resort on Seafire Isle.
But unexplained events continue to happen. Adam O'Connor-Samantha's...
17) The hunters
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The hunters: an ex-military leader, a historian, a computer whiz, a weapons expert and a thief, financed by a billionaire philanthropist are tasked with finding the world's most legendary treasures. The mission: recover a vast Romanian treasure that was stolen by the Russians nearly a century ago. With a haul valued at over $3.5 billion dollars, everyone wants to claim the vast treasure, but its location has remained a mystery... until now. Can the...
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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"Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"--Provided by publisher.
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How to train your dragon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Follows the further adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as his Viking training continues and his father leads a stranger and the Hairy Hooligans to the Isle of Skullions in search of a pirate's treasure.
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Ready player novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
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Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest: a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get...