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"In this riveting, high-octane thriller from Lincoln Child, an ancient creature is inadvertently released to wreak havoc on the inhabitants of a desolate arctic landscape. Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone is one of the most dangerous and inhospitable places on Earth. For paleoecologist Evan Marshall, an expedition to the Zone offers an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the mounting effects of climate change. But once there, Marshall and his...
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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
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"World-renowned museum paleontologist, Peter Marchand, goes missing while leading a dinosaur excavation in the sweltering desert badlands of Wyoming. He has made enemies from his serial womanizing, ruthless academic dealings, religious blasphemy, and radical scientific theories. Hired by the museum to find him, Pittsburgh private detective Harry Przewalski uncovers a tangle of sexual deceit, greed, betrayal, and scientific fraud. He chases Marchand...
4) Old bones
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"Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, is approached by a historian, Clive Benton, with the opportunity to lead an expedition unlike any other. It begins with the story of the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage,...
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"Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present. When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff near St. Denis, Bruno suspects a connection to the great ruined Château de Commarque, a long-ago Knights Templar stronghold that stands...
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"When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon, a madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus and a priceless pre-Columbian artifact buries...
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"A series of archeological expeditions unfolds through time, each one looking for the ruins of a fabled underground city-state that once flourished in a remote province near the border of present-day Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Sealed off for centuries by seismic activity, Suolucidir beckons with the promise of plunder and the glory of discovery, fantasies as varied as the imaginations of her aspiring modern-day conquerors. As the tumult of the...
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Jack Howard novels volume 4
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Marine archaeologist Jack Howard follows the Silk Route to uncover the mystery of an ancient Roman army's disappearance, and discovers secrets about dangerous artifacts and his own family history.
10) The lost tomb
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In the treacherous waters off the rugged Sicilian coast, marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team of scientific experts and ex-Special Forces commandos make a shocking find while searching for the legendary shipwreck of the apostle Paul. And when a second artifact is uncovered in the ruins of a buried city, Jack is on the verge of a discovery that could shake the world to its foundations: the handwritten words of Jesus Christ himself.
11) Pyramid: a novel
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As the streets of Cairo run red with blood due to a violent political awakening, Jake Howard and his team of marine archaeologists gather together to solve one of the greatest mysteries involving a fossilized discovery in the Red Sea and a 110-year-old handwritten report that could change history.
12) Terminalny mróz
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A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly when the group heads out on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave and makes an astonishing find.
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A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.
Nunca, desde Parque Jurásico, había sido tan peligroso desenterrar el pasado ... El legendario autor Michael Crichton vuelve al universo de la paleontología con esta novela póstuma. Una aventura apasionante. 1876. Tribus de indios en pie...
14) Smocze kły
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Rok 1876, Dziki Zachód. Wojsko amerykańskie prowadzi zaciętą walkę z indiańskimi plemionami, a na fali gorączki złota wszędzie zaczynają wyrastać miasteczka bezprawia. W tej scenerii toczy się również słynna wojna o kości. Dwóch rywalizujących ze sobą profesorów paleontologii poszukuje skamieniałych szczątków dinozaurów, uciekając się do wszelkich możliwych chwytów. Do tego bezwzględnego świata trafia William Johnson,...