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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
Author
Series
Arcane Society novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Set in Victorian England, Leona Hewitt, a gifted crystal worker, isn't the only one sneaking into Lord Delbridge's private museum to recover a relic. Thaddeus Ware, a mesmerist with psychic gifts, is on a similar mission. Neither one of them has any idea that this relic--a rare ancient crystal--will lead them in a deadly chase where danger and desire await.
Publisher
Gemstone Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ford is Michael Blake, a former paratrooper who returns to France to find himself-and a medieval gauntlet that a Nazi art dealer had stolen from a village church. Suddenly, Blake finds a dead body in his Paris hotle room and both the art dealer and the police are after him. He flees with his girlfriend to the south of France and into a web of intrigue.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this slick adventure thriller, an antiques dealer, whose grandfather has suddenly and suspiciously died, teams up with a veteran treasure hunter to follow a series of clues in the dead man's journal. The trail leads the pair across the world, as they chase after some valuable historical documents while keeping one small step ahead of some very nasty pursuers.
7) Finding Jesus: faith, fact, forgery : six holy objects that tell the remarkable story of the gospels
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Looks at six major artifacts from the life and world of Jesus, delving into the story of the life of Jesus through these objects and examining the latest forensic evidence that attempts to sort out fact from forgery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008, c2005
Language
English
Description
"When the statue of a golden bear is found walled up in a dilapidated St. Petersburg bathhouse owned by her family, Rosa Kovalenka knows in her heart that this is no trick of fate. Her uncle thinks of treasure, but Rosa fears the bear is much more. She pleads with her old friend and lover, researcher Daniel St. Clare, to help identify the relic and perhaps take the bear far away from those she loved. St. Clare agrees and sets out for the university...
Author
Publisher
Wild Rose Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New Mexico Territory, 1890. In a hidden cavern, a treasure trove of gold sits alongside an ancient relic. To find her treasure-hunting brother, Lottie Durham enlists the help of an easygoing lawman. When a mysterious woman known only as Ma asks her to join the relic's guardians, Lottie's world spins. Should she take on this solemn obligation? Twill, leader of the mysterious guardians, has sworn a vow to protect the centuries-old religious relic. Regrets...
10) The Relic Master
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Language
English
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Description
The year is 1517. The place is the Holy Roman Empire. Meet Dismas, former Swiss mercenary and monk, now a prosperous dealer in holy relics. His clients use the relics to help them sell indulgences, the notorious get-out-of Purgatory passes. But now indulgence sales have become so controversial that Martin Luther is about to nail his famous Ninety-Five Theses to the cathedral door, triggering the protestant Reformation.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In the remote wastes of Greenland, an ancient artifact possessing catastrophic radioactive power is unearthed. But the astounding find puts the world at risk. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his network of spies known as The Corporation must fight to protect the stone-and prevent the outbreak of World War III.
12) The book of Boy
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter.--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The crew of the covert ship Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf when they come across a cruise ship adrift at sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and, as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship.
15) The Jester
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning home from the Crusades, Hugh discovers that his wife has been abducted by relic-seeking knights, prompting him to pose as a court jester in order to infiltrate the castle where his wife is imprisoned.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient...
17) Sacred stone
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Greenland an artifact is unearthed, a 50,000 year old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. Two oposing terrorist groups are searching for the stone. Caught between two militant factions, Juan Cabrillo and his mercenaries must fight to protect the Sacred Stone and prevent the outbreak of World War III.
18) Lost Empire
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Halcyon faces a fifteen-year sentence after being charged with murder, so her younger sister Evadne offers to carry part of her sentence and tries to uncover the truth behind the supposed crime along the way"--
Author
Series
Will Wilder volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A thrill-seeking twelve-year-old boy with a mysterious family heritage discovers ancient objects of rare power--and must protect them from the terrifying demons who will do anything to possess them"--