Kahn, Michael A.
Summary: The New York Times Sunday Magazine piece famously opened: "She has pouting lips and high round breasts. Thousands of men have dreamt of her. Hundreds have chased after her. Two have died in pursuit. Her name is Sirena, she weighs 193 pounds, and she vanished in 1959. Without a trace." Barrett College's legendary Greco-Roman sculpture's fate was still a hot topic in 1970 when four roommates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAHAmin, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE AMIMartin, Bill
Summary: Bing! Bang! Chugga! Beep! is the latest charming tale from rhyming pair Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson. This old car has been everywhere from the backyard to the sky, from the hills to the water. Bouncing between the mud in the ground and the clouds up high, the old car is loved by a clever young boy ... --Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brown Books Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARMass, Wendy
Summary: Ava and Chase want some more information before they embark on another adventure in time, but the woman who gave them the suitcase filled with magical objects is not being helpful, and when Chase picks up the scarab of King Tutankamun they find themselves transported not to ancient Egypt, but to Egypt on the day King Tut's tomb is discovered--and they must get the artifact back into the tomb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MASCalabrese, Keith
Summary: Seventh-grader Charley Decker's mother is on vacation with her boyfriend, and Charley plans to spend the weekend watching movies with her best friends Wade and Oona and her older brother, Greg; but Greg has a date and takes their mother's boyfriend's expensive, rare automobile, than manages to get it towed; Charley and her friends hatch a plan to get the car back--but things go seriously wrong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CALSutton, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014
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Summary: Percy Jackson's hope for a normal senior year is shattered as the gods present him with three quests, beginning with the retrieval of Zeus's goblet, in order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation for college.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIOCervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Summary: Tells the stories of a gypsy romance, a dialogue between two dogs, and a day in the underworld of eighteenth-century Seville, written in the baroque language of Cervantes' era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 CERVenditti, Robert
Summary: Uniting with Jason, Piper, and Leo after their dangerous quest, Percy, Hazel, and Frank wonder who will be chosen to fulfill the Prophecy of Seven, completing their group's number, and sail with them to an ancient land to find the mysterious Doors of Death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 RIOBerenstain, Mike
Summary: The Bear family travels back in time, and what a sight it is! They get to see mummies up close in ancient Egypt, cheer loudly during a medieval jousting match, dine at the very first Thanksgiving, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Festival, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Summary: On a class field trip, Henry hopes to dig up a dinosaur bone with his lucky shovel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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Summary: Clever, cunning and highly skilled--there's only one Bianca St. Ives and don't you dare forget it. Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does--the way her father trained her to--hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBCaramagna, Joe
Summary: Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CARHarper, Benjamin
Summary: In this version of the Jules Verne classic, Mateo, a young velociraptor, finds a puzzling artifact on his class's archaeological dig, which his famous uncle, Dr. Raptor, declares is a clue to the disappearance of the scientist, Ernie Stegosaur; the Doctor, his lab assistant, Darby, and Mateo follow the clue to the center of the Earth and discover a strange civilization--inhabited by creatures...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARNorthrop, Michael
Summary: Alex and Ren must confront the Death Walkers, The Order, and an army of the dead in an attempt to save themselves, Alex's mother, and the world--and hope that Ammit, the Devourer of Egyptian legend, will be able to separate the guilty from the innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J TQ 5Stilton, Geronimo
Summary: When Geronimo Stilton and his friends time travel to three different centuries seeking artifacts missing from the mouseum, they meet Alexander the Great, Queen Cleopatra, Francis Drake, and Mozart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc 2021
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Summary: "Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRAKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINCather, Willa
Summary: Life on the divide was a struggle for the pioneering Bergson family. Alexandra, both tough as nails and tender as a budding blossom, faces and conquers the harsh realities of early settlers in Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CATHugo, Victor
Summary: "So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use," says Victor Hugo in the preface of his famous novel. Certainly, Les Mise;rables is French history recounted through the personal stories of its main characters. The tale offers philosophical insight on the good deeds that can happen even amidst ignorance and poverty. This handsome...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canterbury Classics 2015
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Summary: Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. His opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned: true explorers must never give up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TRUAbbott, Tony
Summary: "Wade, Lily, Darrell, and Becca fly from Texas to Germany for the funeral of an old family friend. But instead of just paying their respects, they wind up on a dangerous, mind-blowing quest to unlock an ancient, guarded secret that could destroy the fate of the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ABBGarretson, Dee
Summary: In this all-new very special miniseries, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations--all around the world! The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BCGA 5Harris, Robert
Summary: "From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019