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2023
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English
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Stumbling across a long-lost treasure, single mother Jesse Braddock must figure out how to keep it out of the hands of villains, while Ken Bortle, to lure tourists to his failing store, invents the "Everglades Melon Monster," inspiring a horde of TikTokers to swarm the swamp, inciting mayhem and hilarity
2) Argylle
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"A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most...
3) The survivor
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Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archaeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world
Traveling to an island in Southeast Asia, archaeologist Riley Smith is aware of the threat from treasure hunters who have no qualms about killing to get what they...
4) Good as gold
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Casey's life in Langston has been charmed. She's the queen bee of her prep school, a shoo-in for prom queen, and on her way to the Ivy League come fall. She can't wait to leave the whole town of Langston behind her. That is until her father loses his job and she finds herself on the brink of losing her ticket out of town. The town of Langston is known for its picturesque lake and robust summer tourism. Everyone who lives in town has heard the rumors...
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Random House
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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"El cazador y veterano de Vietnam Llewelyn Moss descubre por casualidad la sangrienta escena de una carnice̕ra entre narcos en al{250}gn lugar de la frontera de Texas y ̌Mxico. Entre los cuerpos y los paquetes de her̕ona, descubre tambǐn algo ̀ms de dos millones de ̤dlares. A partir de ese momento comienza la violenta carrera de Moss por escapar de los que quieren darle caza: Wells, ex agente de las Fuerzas Especiales contratado por un poderoso...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 9
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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"Charts of lost gold ... breathtaking art and rare volumes ... maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the world's balance of power. Now Dirk Pitt discovers the secret trail of the treasures of Alexandria--a trail that plunges him into a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe. Zealots threaten to unseat the governments of Egypt and Mexico, exposing America to invasion and economic collapse. Suddenly, from East to West,...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"In the Golden Age of Piracy, Hannah Masury is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah disguises herself as a cabin boy in the crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose a path for herself, Hannah must hunt down the treasure. Professor Marian Beresford pieces Hannah's story together in 1930. At the center of Hannah's account...
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"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Muše de l'Ařme is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Beware the blackbirds... It's Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr's small cabin. She needs more room--and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it's haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in...
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"The Straw Hat crew makes a pit stop at the oceangoing restaurant the Baratie, where the cooks are as rough-and-tumble as the pirates who frequent it. Don Krieg, a notorious pirate whose ship was battered in the treacherous seas of the Grand Line, has set his sights on the Baratie, but sous-chef Sanji isn't going to stand idly by while these ruthless pirates take the ship by force!"--Publisher's web page
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