Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: When New York City construction workers uncover the remains of thirty-six people murdered and dismembered over 130 years ago, archaeologist Nora Kelly and Special Agent Pedergast set out to investigate the killings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Sutton, Laurie
Summary: When Scooby-Doo and the gang arrive at Professor Dinkley's archaeological dig in Mexico, they find Velma's uncle missing, and the workers terrified of chupacabras and Aztec gods--and the reader must help them solve the mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Sutton 2014Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: "In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: "In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PREAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: In Rajasthan with her archaeologist parents Reeya Rai finds an ancient stepwell, with an underwater door bearing a mysterious symbol which may be the key to a legendary treasure--if she can come up with an invention and find it before her rival Elsie Acker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIAmin, Anita Nahta
Summary: Reeya Rai and her friend Finlay discover a priceless ivory peacock in a cave near the Roman site her parents are studying, and Reeya must come up with a way to retrieve the nearly inaccessible artefact before the greedy Dr. Acker finds it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: In 1915 Cairo, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her husband brave German submarines and warring Senussi to continue their search for ancient artifacts, until they stumble upon a much-too-recent corpse and try to find the killer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLargePrint 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PETPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PETPeters, Elizabeth.
Summary: Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. Along the way, she meets up with Evelyn Barton-Forbes, the Emerson brothers, and a lively mummy. How Amelia arranges all to her satisfaction is just one of the pleasures of theis...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Peters, Elizabeth.
Summary: In Egypt to excavate pyramids, Amelia Emerson and her husband investigate an attempt to kill their son, Ramses. The incident appears connected to a friend of Ramses who is selling forged artifacts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Twilight 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETAckroyd, Peter
Summary: Working on a nineteenth-century excavation of the ancient ruins of Troy, Sophia, the young Greek wife of German archaeologist Heinrich Obermann, becomes suspicious about her husband's past when she finds a cache of artifacts that he had hidden away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACKJenkins, Jerry B.
Summary: "Archaeologist Nicole Berman is the first woman to be awarded a permit to lead a dig in Saudi Arabia. Nicole has a hunch that the artifacts she hopes to discover have the power to rewrite world history. She assembles a team that will ultimately surprise - and in some cases - betray her. Will she find what she believes to be the key to unifying the three major religions before a dangerous enemy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENPeters, Elizabeth.
Summary: With World War I thankfully ended, Amelia and Emerson Peabody can return to Egypt to continue their archaeological work, but a nationalist has begun to stir up trouble in the town where they are working, and Amelia's nemesis, Sethos, has apparently re-emerged.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETHutchinson, Michael
Summary: "Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new adventure adds to their reputation. When a visiting archaeologist goes missing, the cousins decide to solve the mystery of his disappearance. In the midst of community...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUTGraham, Scott
Summary: When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier--or turns on them instead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Torrey House Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGriffiths, Elly
Summary: North Norfolk. The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, uncover a Bronze Age hoard on the beach-- near a recently deceased body. Not long after, the same group uncover the apparent murder-suicide of a scientist and his wife at the isolated Black Dog Farm. The farm has long been said to be haunted by the Black Shuck, a spectral hound that appears to people before they die. Ruth Galloway...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETGriffiths, Elly.
Summary: When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson who thinks they may be the bones of a child called Lucy who has been missing for ten years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRIJenkins, Jerry B.
Summary: "Nicole Berman is an archaeologist on the brink of a world-changing discovery. During her first dig in Jordan, she believes she has found concrete evidence of a biblical patriarch that could change history books forever-- but someone doesn't want the truth revealed. While Nicole is urgently trying to connect pieces of an ancient puzzle, a dangerous enemy is out to stop her"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JENPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PETQuick, Amanda.
Summary: "When Ursula Kern, proprietor of the Kern Secretarial Agency, discovers the body of one of her best secretaries, she immediately suspects murder. But no one, including the police, believes her. So Ursula seeks the help of her newest and most mysterious client, Slater Roxton"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Quick 2015Willig, Lauren
Summary: September 1896: As an aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into a very male-dominated field and find work at some of the world's most famous excavation sites. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in philanthropist Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Cussler, Clive
Summary: Ten years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on a hunt for the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. They ran afoul of a criminal drug-running kingpin, but Sam and Remi survived their confrontation and managed to send him to prison. Now he has been released, and he has two goals in mind: Find the legendary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUSPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "Dawn Edelstein's life instantly changes when the plane she's on crashes. Before impact, she thinks not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash. She could return [to] Boston, back to her husband, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula. Or she could go to Egypt to find Wyatt, who works as an archaeologist,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020