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-- Twelve twenty-onec2012., Adult, The Dial Press Call No: Fic Tho Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Shortly before December 21, 2012, a CDC expert encounters a confounding medical mystery, and a talented Mayan scholar comes into possession of a priceless codex with terrifying implications for modern civilization."--Novelist.
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By Leon, Donna2009., Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Commissario Brunetti Volume: 5Summary Note: As Venice braces for a winter tempest, Commissario Guido Brunetti, Donna Leon's intrepid Italian sleuth, finds out that an old friend has been savagely beaten at the palazzo home of reigning diva Flavia Petrelli. Then, as the flood waters rise, a corpse is discovered and Brunetti must wade through the chaotic city to solve his deadliest case yet. Sinister and exotic, Acqua Alta is another chilling addition to Donna Leon's best-selling series.
![Acqua alta [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76986.JPG "Acqua alta [eBook]")
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c2008., Delta Trade Paperbacks Call No: MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Laetitia Talbot Volume: 2Summary Note: After the murder of her uncle Daniel, archaeologist Laetitia Talbot receives a postcard that takes her to the excavation in Burgundy where her uncle had spent his final days, and finds herself searching for Templar treasure and a killer who will do anything to keep an ancient legacy hidden.
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2011., Adult, Barbara Freethy Edition: eBook ed. Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: "A priceless Chinese artifact, an ancient curse, and a decades-old betrayal set the stage for this story, which unites the grandchildren from three diverse, yet strangely linked, families and sweeps them from the rarified world of high-priced antiques to the fragrant alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown on an urgent quest to unravel the past's secrets. But exposing the past could mean destroying the future, and there are those who will resort to violence to keep those secrets hidden."--Library Journal.
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By Martel, Yann[2016]., Adult, Alfred Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Mar Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years later, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his own beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together. Beautiful, witty and engaging, Yann Martel's new novel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss, belief and unbelief, that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels."--From publisher.
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2012., Mira Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Museum curator Summer Hawthorne considered the exquisite ice-blue ceramic bowl given to her by her beloved Japanese nanny a treasure of sentimental value--until somebody tried to kill her for it.The priceless relic is about to ignite a global power struggle that must be stopped at all costs. It's a desperate situation, and international operative Takashi O'Brien has received his directive: everybody is expendable. Everybody. Especially the woman who is getting dangerously under his skin as the lethal game crosses the Pacific to the remote and beautiful mountains of Japan, where the truth can be as seductive as it is deadly....
![Ice blue [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT80248.JPG "Ice blue [eBook]")
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2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Call No: QWF Fic For Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself before vanishing without a trace. Diana's colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse. Traveling to North Africa, Diana teams up with Nick Barran, an enigmatic Middle Eastern guide, and begins deciphering an unusual inscription.
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2012., General, Simon & Schuster Call No: MYS Fic Cla Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alvirah & Willy Volume: 9Summary Note: Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century.
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By Fay, Kimc2012., Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Fay Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Teaming up in 1925 Shanghai to find a priceless set of scrolls believed to contain the lost history of the Khmer empire, Irene Blum and temple-robber Simone Merlin commit a shockingly violent act before discovering unexpected commonalities in their respective pasts.
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2017., William Morrow Call No: MYS Fic Pet Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Amelia Peabody Volume: 20Summary Note: Egypt, 1912. Arriving in Cairo for another thrilling excavation season, Amelia is relaxing in a well-earned bubble bath in her elegant hotel suite in Cairo when a man with knife protruding from his back staggers into the chamber and utters a single word -- "Murder" -- before collapsing on the tiled floor, dead. Among the few possessions he carried was a sheet of paper with Amelia's name and room number, and a curious piece of pasteboard the size of a calling card bearing one word: "Judas." Most peculiarly, the stranger was wearing a gold-rimmed monocle in his left eye. It quickly becomes apparent that someone saved Amelia from a would-be assassin -- someone who is keeping a careful eye on the intrepid Englishwoman. Discovering a terse note clearly meant for her husband, Radcliffe Emerson, pushed under their door, there can be only one answer: the brilliant master of disguise, Sethos. But neither assassins nor the Genius of Crime will deter Amelia as she and Emerson head to the excavation site at Amarna, where they will witness the discovery of one of the most precious Egyptian artifacts: the iconic Nefertiti bust. In 1345 B.C., the sculptor Thutmose crafted the piece in tribute to the great beauty of this queen who was also the chief consort of Pharaoh Akhenaten and stepmother to King Tutankhamun. For Amelia, this excavation season will prove to be unforgettable. Throughout her journey, a parade of men in monocles will die under suspicious circumstances, fascinating new relics will be unearthed, a murderous quest for vengeance will be thwarted, and a diabolical mystery will be solved at last.
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2018., Adult, Grand Central Publishing Call No: Fic Pre Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gideon Crew Volume: 5Summary Note: When his former employer goes missing, Gideon Crew, reeling from his terminal diagnosis, pursues the long-awaited translation of the Phaistos Disc, an ancient tablet that could end or save his life.
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2024., Adult, William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: NEW MYS Fic Qui Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing’s fallen Summer Palace. His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined . . . until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice.
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c2015., Adult, Anansi Call No: Fic She Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three men race against time to take possession of a sacred 5,000-year-old Buddhist sculpture: Khalid, a leading Pakistani antiquities dealer, arranges for the illegal importation of the statue from neighbouring Afghanistan. Ghalib, a wealthy art collector with political aspirations, has purchased the statue for his private collection. Adeel, a highly recommended ex-military officer, is hired by Khalid to transport the sculpture to its final destination. When Adeel first views the statue in a cave in Bamiyan -- known as "the place of shining light" -- he has a profound spiritual reaction and decides to steal the sculpture for himself. When Khalid and Ghalib realize their prized possession is missing, they conspire to do whatever it takes to have it returned -- before it's lost forever.
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2011., Adult, HarperCollins Canada Call No: MYS Fic Far Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Émile Cinq-Mars Volume: 3Summary Note: "Set in Montreal, this is a prequel to the bestselling Cinq-Mars crime novels. On the night of the "Rocket Richard Riot" in 1955, the legendary Cartier Dagger is stolen from its protective glass in the Sun Life building. The dagger once belonged to the explorer Jacques Cartier. The same night, a man is found murdered with a dagger wound to his heart. Thirteen years later, Émile Cing-Mars is asked to continue the investigation. In the style of THE RED VIOLIN, the book follows the fate of an artefact over time - from the age of Cartier to the the Trudeau era."--Publisher.
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2011, c2010., Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Joh Edition: Doubleday Canada ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Isabelle Treslove-Fawcett has always felt at odds with her family - free-spirited and wild at heart, she is the opposite of her serious and studious parents, and has spent most of her life trying to find a place where she belongs. When her estranged archeologist father suddenly dies, the last thing Issy expects to be left with is a cryptic note from him and a mysterious jeweled amulet. Determined to learn how it came into her father's possession, she journey's to the deserts of Morocco, where she is swept into a world steeped in history, tradition and love lost. With the help of a handsome antiques trader named Taib, Izzy soon unearths the amulet's extraordinary past among the Tuareg people, a past that involves the legendary Tin Hinan - She of Tents - who crossed the desert on foot, and her beautiful descendant Mariata. Spanning years and the hot, shifting sands of the Salt Road, the intertwined stories of Izzy and Mariata become entangled with that of the ancient amulet, taking readers on an unforgettable journey."--Inside front cover.
