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Berkley
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
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Publisher:
HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
Pub. Date:
2009
Lexile measure:
650L
Language:
English
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Asked to travel to Egypt to help with an urgent archaeological expedition, Flat Stanley suspects that he might be helping grave robbers and must rely on his quick thinking, unique flatness, and new friends to make things right.
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Publisher:
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2009
Lexile measure:
650L
Language:
English
Description:
There's no place on Earth a flat kid can't go! Join Stanley in his second exciting adventure in the renowned Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures series! Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board, there are places he can get to that no one else can. So when Stanley receives a letter from an archaeologist, he travels by airmail to Egypt to help find an ancient treasure deep in the heart of a great pyramid. But what if even the flattest boy...
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Publisher:
Nomad Press
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
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"Armed with shovels and crowbars, thieves throughout history have unearthed graves out of greed, hunger, and curiosity. This book recounts little-known stories of body snatchers and crooks of the crypt, from Jamestown, Virginia, to Sipán, Peru"--Back cover.
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Series:
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures volume 2
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Ancient pyramids can be flat-out dangerous! Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board, there are places he can get to that no one else can. So when Stanley receives a letter from an archaeologist, he travels by airmail to Egypt to help find an ancient treasure deep in the heart of a great pyramid. But what if even the flattest boy on earth can't wriggle out of this dark tomb-and the terrible mess he finds himself in?
7. Oliver Twist
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Lexile measure:
940L
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Oliver Twist is born in the harsh confines of a workhouse, his mother expiring in childbirth, his father unknown. After enduring years of brutal treatment, Oliver runs away to London, where he falls in with a band of child pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. His foray into a life of crime soon lands him into the arms of the law, when Oliver's fortunes finally appear to turn as the robbery victim becomes his benefactor. But Fagin isn't about to...
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Lexile measure:
910L
Language:
English
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Maggie Holloway arrives at the home of her long-lost stepmother Nuala, only to the find the older woman dead. During a visit to the cemetery, Maggie, a professional photographer, notices something is amiss and finds herself the target of a sinister money-bilking plot.
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Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
Description:
'On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered hefty rewards as leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless...
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"A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Gull. Meg Langslow is at Trinity Episcopal locking up after an event and checking on the toucan Meg's friend Rev. Robyn Smith is fostering in her office. After hearing a hammering in the columbarium (the small building where cremated remains are held), Meg finds an elderly parishioner lying dead on the floor of the crypt. Several niches have been...
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Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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The dead won't bother you if you don't give them permission. Boston, 1844. Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby's gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now a young woman and tragically separated from Alice, Tabby...
12. Wild winds
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English
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With her trademark combination of intrigue, adventure and sensual romance, New York Times bestselling author Janelle Taylor crafts novels that hold readers spellbound time and time again, now, she recreates the rugged grandeur of the old southwest in her lushest, most romantic love story yet. Feisty and beautiful Maggie Malone is determined to earn her livelihood as a private detective--a daunting profession unheard of for a woman on her own in the...
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Publisher:
Books on Tape
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
THE WHITE WOLF
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are thrilled to visit Wallis Wallace at her new cabin in the Maine wilderness. On their very first day, they glimpse a white wolf and her babies on a cliff. But soon after the kids spy the wolf family, the pups are wolf-napped! Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose sniff out the culprits before the white wolf starts suspecting them?
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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are thrilled to visit Wallis Wallace at her new cabin in the Maine wilderness. On their very first day, they glimpse a white wolf and her babies on a cliff. But soon after the kids spy the wolf family, the pups are wolf-napped! Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose sniff out the culprits before the white wolf starts suspecting them?
THE X’ED-OUT X-RAY
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are having an excellent...
14. Walking Shadow
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Publisher:
Emma Adams
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Ashlyn has found a new home in Blackstone, but when a flood of mysterious grave robberies hits the town, the local sorcerers are convinced it signals a new sign of demonic activity. As a rogue sorceress with no idea where her magic came from, Ash is a prime target for suspicion. The trouble is, what Ash does know might just get her killed. When Leo's guardian is murdered in suspicious circumstances, all signs point to a connection with the recent...
15. Mail Order Bride
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Publisher:
Gold Crown Publishing
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
This is book 2 in the Mountain Brides series. In 1888, there weren't many opportunities for a young girl of only eighteen to support herself in a place like Galveston Texas, unless she was willing to compromise her principles. That was why Jessica's guardian, an old man who had owed her late father a debt, proposes she become a mail-order bride. That and because Jessica wasn't easy to support. Flaherty, her guardian had spent a great deal more than...
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Publisher:
DFMI
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
Chinese
Description:
A Legend tells that there are two seven-star lamps in the world. One lamp was found in the tomb of Zhouyi and used by Zhuge Kongming. But there is another one in Jiang Ziya's grave. For thousands of years, Jiang Ziya's grave has been a mystery. In order to search for his grave, later generations experienced a breathtaking grave robbery.
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
When the body of a murdered woman, surrounded by jewels and weapons, is discovered beneath a village church, Adam Newport thinks he has made the find of a lifetime but murder and grave robbery take him to the edge of sanity. 1100 years earlier, Emma joins the desperate struggle against Viking invasion only to find that treachery and a clash of beliefs are a greater enemy.
18. Aztec Sword
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Publisher:
Quadrant Fiction Studio
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Actor turned detective Calvin Carter stands on his favorite place-a stage-when armed bandits attack. Carter and his partner, Thomas Jackson, foil the robbery, and the surviving gunman snitches the name of the mystery man, who hired the gang. Both men soon die, taking their secrets to the grave. Turns out, the entire robbery was an elaborate distraction. In the melee, a master thief with a unique calling card swipes a prized artifact: a macuahuitl,...
19. Comorbidities
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Publisher:
Markosia Enterprises Ltd
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Comorbidities is three novellas about irregular topics, including weaponized housecats, serial-killer reincarnation, celebrity grave robbery, mass murder, sociopathic spiritual gurus, ghost psychotherapy, military misbehavior, and more mass murder. Its author, Jim Harberson, wrote Markosia's acclaimed short-story collection, A Disgusting Supermarket of Death (2021), and co-wrote Markosia's Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award-nominated graphic novel,...
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Publisher:
Harlequin
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
In this romantic suspense mystery by a USA Today-bestselling author, a run of grave robberies force two detectives to bury their burgeoning chemistry. After losing two partners in the line of duty, major crimes detective Davis Gilroy isn't about to get close to his new one. Especially when that partner is an optimistic blonde beauty with killer curves. Davis will do his job, keep a close eye on detective Moira Cavanaugh and not let her get under...