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1. Vanishing treasures: a bestiary of extraordinary endangered creatures

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Author:
Rundell, Katherine
Publisher:
Doubleday
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"A tour of the natural world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction"--

2. Tobacco sheds: vanishing treasures in the Connecticut River Valley

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Author:
Cahill, Dale F.
Publisher:
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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3. The Nina, the Pinta, and the vanishing treasure

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Author:
Santopolo, Jill
Series:
Alec Flint super sleuth
Publisher:
Orchard Books
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740L
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English
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When the entire Christopher Columbus exhibit disappears from the local museum, fourth-grade sleuth-in-training Alec Flint investigates, aided by his new classmate and potential partner, Gina, who wants his help looking into the disappearance of a teacher.

4. The Vanishing Treasure

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Author:
Terrell, Brandon
Publisher:
Capstone
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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Fleischman Middle School is participating in the annual Math-Tastic regional tournament. But there's a problem...the competition's prized trophies have vanished without a trace! Now it's up to the Snoops, Inc. team to uncover the clues and track down the missing awards. Will the kid detectives discover the thief and return the school's treasured trophies in time? Featuring a diverse cast of inner-city youth, this Snoops, Inc. mystery will be sure...

5. The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

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Grann, David
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English
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In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called "The Lost City of Z." --from publisher description.

6. The melody lingers on: a novel

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Author:
Clark, Mary Higgins
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"As the sole assistant to a famous upscale interior designer, Lane Harmon, mother to five-year-old Katie, is accustomed to visiting opulent homes around the tri-state area. A born optimist, Lane finds the glimpse into these gilded worlds fascinating, and loves the reward of exceeding the expectations of their often-demanding owners. When she is called to assist in redecorating a modest townhouse in Bergen County, she knows the job is unusual. Then...

7. Arkangel

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Author:
Rollins, James, 1961-
Series:
Sigma Force novel volume 18
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English
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"The execution of a Vatican archivist within the shadow of the Kremlin exposes a conspiracy going back three centuries--to the bloody era of the Russian Tsars. Before his murder, he manages to dispatch a coded message, a warning of a terrifying threat, one tied to a secret buried within the Golden Library of Tsars, a vast and treasured archive that had vanished into history. As combative forces race for the truth behind this death and alarming discovery,...

8. Journey of the pharaohs: a novel from the NUMA files

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Author:
Cussler, Clive
Series:
Kurt Austin adventures volume 17
NUMA files volume 17
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English
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"In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler--along with its mysterious cargo--sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team? As they search for answers, the NUMA squad join the...

9. The Sign of the Four

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Author:
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Series:
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes volume 2
Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection volume 2
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770L
Language:
English
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Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four is the second novel in the Sherlock Holmes series, following the enormously successful novel A Study In Scarlet. With the mysterious disappearance of a British Indian army officer, a one-legged hooligan, a stolen treasure, and a nefarious pact between four con-men, this novel of revenge and love is an exquisite classic of crime fiction. In the infamous opening of the novel, Dr. Watson finds Sherlock Holmes in...

10. The Romanov ransom

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Author:
Cussler, Clive
Series:
Thorndike Press large print basic
Sam and Remi Fargo adventure
Fargo adventure
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English
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"Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan, in the thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom? During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that--it vanished....

11. The pharaoh key

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Author:
Preston, Douglas J
Series:
Gideon Crew novel volume 5
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation...

12. Death by chocolate raspberry scone

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Author:
Graves, Sarah, 1951-
Series:
Death by chocolate mystery volume 7
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English
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"With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirate's treasure--and a dead body. Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a trusted childhood friend, to locate his remains. It's...

13. The last heir to Blackwood Library

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Fox, Hester
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English
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"With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind...

14. The eye of God: a Sigma Force novel

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Author:
Rollins, James, 1961-
Series:
Sigma Force novel volume 9
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English
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In The Eye of God, a Sigma Force novel, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins delivers an apocalyptic vision of a future predicted by the distant past. In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy-and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin. At the Vatican, a package...

15. Life on the Mississippi

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Library of America paperback classics
Penguin American library
Lexile measure:
1090L
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English
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He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...

16. The sleepwalker

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Author:
Bohjalian, Chris, 1962-
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire—the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.

17. The secret of the forgotten city

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Author:
Keene, Carolyn
Series:
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 52
Publisher:
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date:
[1975]
Lexile measure:
710L
Language:
English
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East Hampton Juvenile Fiction
JF KEE
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Nancy and her friends become involved in a search for lost treasure.

18. Moby Dick

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Author:
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Series:
Norton critical edition
World's classics
Barnes and Noble Classics
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Lexile measure:
1200L
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3.7 stars
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Narrated by the crew member Ishmael, this epic whaling adventure follows the crew of the Pequod as its captain, Ahab, descends deeper and deeper into madness on his quest to find and kill the white whale that maimed him. Beyond the surface of ship life, whaling, and the hunt for the elusive Moby Dick are allegorical references to life - and even the universe - in this masterpiece by Herman Melville. Regarded as the Great American Novel, Moby Dick...

19. The search for the sunken treasure: Australia

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Author:
Hunt, Elizabeth Singer
Series:
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 2
Publisher:
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date:
c2007
Lexile measure:
800L
Language:
English
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East Hampton Juvenile Quick Fiction
JQF HUN
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Secret agent Jack Stalwart searches for a diver missing from the Great Barrier Reef and a treasure that has vanished from the wreck of the HMS Pandora while trying to defeat a deadly band of pirates.

20. The gift of the magpie: a Meg Langslow mystery

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Author:
Andrews, Donna
Series:
Meg Langslow mysteries volume 28
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail). The 28th book and the seventh Christmas mystery in the Meg Langslow series, The Gift of the Magpie is yet another wonderfully merry and funny book from New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews. Meg's running Caerphilly's Helping Hands for the Holidays...
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