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Journey of the pharaohs : a novel from the NUMA files / by Cussler, Clive,author.; Brown, Graham,1969-author.;
"In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler--along with its mysterious cargo--sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team? As they search for answers, the NUMA squad join the agents of the British MI5 to take on a wide-reaching international conspiracy. Their common enemy is the Bloodstone Group, a conglomerate of arms dealers and thieves attempting to steal ancient relics on both sides of the Atlantic. Kurt and his team soon find themselves wrapped up in a treacherous treasure hunt as they race to find the lost Egyptian riches ... before they fall into the wrong hands"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character); National Underwater and Marine Agency; Marine scientists; Arms dealers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Journey of the pharaohs [sound recording] : a novel from the NUMA files / by Cussler, Clive,author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Brown, Graham,1969-author.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Scott Brick."In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler--along with its mysterious cargo--sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team? As they search for answers, the NUMA squad join the agents of the British MI5 to take on a wide-reaching international conspiracy. Their common enemy is the Bloodstone Group, a conglomerate of arms dealers and thieves attempting to steal ancient relics on both sides of the Atlantic. Kurt and his team soon find themselves wrapped up in a treacherous treasure hunt as they race to find the lost Egyptian riches ... before they fall into the wrong hands"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character); National Underwater and Marine Agency; Arms dealers; Marine scientists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gideon the Ninth / by Muir, Tamsyn,author.;
The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Contests; Lesbians; Magic; Swordplay; Swordsmen;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Templar silks / by Chadwick, Elizabeth,1957-author.;
England, 1219. Lying on his deathbed, William Marshal, England's greatest knight, sends a trusted servant to bring to him the silk Templar burial shrouds that returned with him from the Holy Land thirty years ago. It is time to fulfil his vow to the Templars and become a monk of their order for eternity. As he waits for the shrouds' return, he looks back upon his long-ago pilgrimage with his brother Ancel, and the sacred mission entrusted to them to bear the cloak of their dead young lord to Jerusalem and lay it on Christ's tomb in the church of the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem, 1183. In the holiest of all cities, the brothers become embroiled in the deadly politics, devious scheming and lusts of the powerful men and women who rule the kingdom. Entangled with the dangerous, mercurial Paschia de Riveri, concubine of the highest churchman in the land, William sets on a path so perilous that there seems no way back for him, or for his brother. Both will pay a terrible price and their only chance to see home again will be dependent on the Templar shrouds.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Templars; Pilgrims and pilgrimages;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The mistress and the key / by Mezrich, Ben,1969-author.;
'The Mistress and the Key' is the second installment in Ben Mezrich's 'Hailey Gordon and Nick Patterson' thriller series. Benjamin Franklin's mysterious connection to Paul Revere and a cabal of powerful alchemists has been lost to history -- until now. Card shark Hailey Gordon and ex con Nick Patterson -- fresh off uncovering one of the biggest secrets of the Revolutionary War alongside American history professor Adrian Jensen -- now find themselves in Philadelphia, immersed in the history of Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. The Liberty Bell, Charles Willson Peale's Museum, and the Tomb of The Unknown Revolutionary Soldier are connected to Franklin in amazing ways. The more they discover, the more shocking the implications become. The long buried secrets Hailey and Nick are chasing have previously only been known by a select few, who would prefer to keep it that way. A woman known as The Heiress -- part of a mysterious organization called The Family -- is one of these rare historians. After generations of members have failed before her, The Heiress has been tasked to finally unearth the alchemical secrets Revere and Franklin may have discovered during their lifetimes. And she's not about to let Nick and Hailey get in her way.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Alchemists; Cardsharping; Conspiracy; Ex-convicts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The ashes of London / by Taylor, Andrew,1951 October 14-author.;
From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. London, September 1666. The Great Fire rages through the city, consuming everything in its path. Even the impregnable cathedral of St. Paul's is engulfed in flames and reduced to ruins. Among the crowds watching its destruction is Richard Marwood, son of a disgraced printer, and reluctant government informer. In the aftermath of the fire, a semi-mummified body is discovered in the ashes of St. Paul's, in a tomb that should have been empty. The man's body has been mutilated and his thumbs have been tied behind his back - the sign of a Regicide, one of those who signed Charles I's death warrant. Under orders from the government, Marwood is tasked with hunting down the killer across the devastated city. But at a time of dangerous internal dissent and the threat of foreign invasion, Marwood finds his investigation leads him into treacherous waters - and across the path of a determined, beautiful and vengeful young woman.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Great Fire, London, England, 1666; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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There is only war / by Dunn, Christian.; Priestley, Lindsey.; Kyme, Nick.;
One hate / Aaron Dembski-Bowden -- Kraken / Chris Wraight -- The iron without / Graham McNeill -- Deus ex mechanicus / Andy Chambers -- Pestilence / Dan Abnett -- Torment / Anthony Reynolds -- Cold trade / Andy Hoare -- The relic / Jonathan Green -- Faces / Matthew Farrer -- Beneath the flesh / Andy Smillie -- Evan unto death / Mike Lee -- Orphans of the kraken / Richard Williams -- Black dawn / CL Werner -- Unforgiven / Graham McNeil -- Shadow knight / Aaron Dembski-Bowden -- Survivor / Steve Parker -- Emperor's deliverance / Nick Kyme -- The last detail / Paul Kearney -- Master Imus's transgression / Dan Abnett -- The long games at Carcharias / Rob Sanders -- Helion rain / George Mann -- Echoes of the tomb / Sandy Mitchell -- Voidsong / Henry Zou -- We are one / John French -- Bitter end / SP Cawkwell -- Apostle's creed / Graham McNeil -- Mistress Baeda's gift / Braden Campbell -- Flesh / Chris Wraight -- Twelve wolves / Ben Counter -- Suffer not the unclean to live / Gav Thorpe -- The lives of Ferag Lion-Wolf / Barrington J Bayley -- Snares and delusions / Matthew Farrer -- Gae of souls / Mike Lee -- The wrath of Kharn / William King -- The returned / James Swallow -- A good man / Sandy Mitchell -- Hell night / Nick Kyme -- At Gaius Point / Aaron Dembski-Bowden -- Midnight on the street of knives / Andy Chambers -- The carrion anthem / David Annandale -- Playing patience / Dan Abnett.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Heroes; Warhammer (Imaginary place);
© c2013., Black Library,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the belly of the Congo / by Ndala, Blaise,1972-author.; Reid, Amy Baram,1964-translator.; translation of:Ndala, Blaise,1972-Dans le ventre du Congo.English.;
"A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. April 1958. When the Brussels World's Fair opens, Robert Dumont, one of the people responsible for the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, ends up laying down his arms in the face of pressure from the royal palace: there will be a "Congolese village" in one of the seven pavilions devoted to the settlements. Among the eleven recruits mobilized at the foot of the Atomium to put on a show is the young Tshala, daughter of the intractable king of the Bakuba. The journey of this princess is revealed to us, from her native Kasai to Brussels via Léopoldville, to her forced exhibition at Expo 58, where we lose track of it. Summer 2004. Freshly arrived in Belgium, a niece of the missing princess crosses paths with a man haunted by the ghost of his father. This is Francis Dumont, professor of law at the Free University of Brussels. A succession of events ends up revealing to them the secret carried by the former deputy commissioner of Expo 58 to his tomb. From one century to the next, the novel embraces History with a capital "H," to pose the central question of the colonial equation: can the past pass?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Colonists; Exiles; Human zoos; Kuba (African people); Missing persons; Nieces; Princesses; Racism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dante's Inferno [graphic novel] : a graphic novel adaptation / by Brizzi, Paul,author,illustrator.; Thomas,letterer.; Brizzi, Gaëtan,illustrator.; Kane, Montana,translator.; translation of:Brizzi, Paul.Enfer de Dante.English.; graphic novelization of (work):Dante Alighieri,1265-1321.Inferno.English.;
"Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante crosses the nine circles of Hell to find his beloved, Beatrice, in Paradise. Along the way, he must recognize and reject each of the incarnations of sin. In each circle of Hell, Dante confronts both sinners and demons, from Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, and Paris, whose loves were famously their downfall, to the Greek Furies and Medusa, to heretics like Epicurus, whose teachings claimed that the soul died with the body, now forced to writhe in a flaming tomb for eternity. Each layer of Hell reveals monsters, gods, historical and mythological kings, philosophers, queens, and hordes of the miserable, faceless damned, all culminating in a confrontation with Lucifer himself. Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi make this famously dense literary classic accessible without distorting it and betraying the spirit of the Italian genius. They deftly translate it into comics while taking care to preserve the heart of the story: a taste for excess, dramatic tension, and the inevitable darkness of the subject matter. Literary aficionados will appreciate this decadent graphic novel adaptation, which does not seek to sand down the source material. Likewise, adults whose imaginations were fueled by films like Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame as children, which the Brizzi brothers animated sequences for, will be swept up in this lushly illustrated adult fable, unfettered by the demands of corporate animation studios"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Hell; Voyages to the otherworld;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ramses the damned. by Rice, Anne,1941-2021,author.; Rice, Christopher,1978-author.;
"A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt's greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he's found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered his tomb. Now, with the outbreak of a world war looming, Ramses and those immortals brought forth from the mists of history by his resurrection will face their greatest test yet. Russian assassins bearing weapons of incredible power have assembled under one command: all those who loved Lawrence Stratford must die. From the glowing jewels at their necks comes an incredible power: the power to bring statues to life. As Ramses and his allies, including the immortal queens Cleopatra and Bektaten, gather together to battle these threats, Ramses reveals that the great weapon may have roots in an ancient Egyptian ritual designed to render pharaohs humble before Osiris, the god of the underworld. The resulting journey will take them across storm-tossed seas and into the forests of northern Russia, where they will confront a terrifying collision of tortured political ambitions and religious fervor held in thrall to a Godlike power. But the true answers they seek will lie beyond the border between life and death, within realms that defy the imagination of even an immortal such as Ramses the Great."--
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.; Ramses II, King of Egypt; Immortality; Mummies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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