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2) Acqua alta
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English
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The Venice commissioner, Guido Brunetti, investigates the murder of a museum director who was involved in the traffic of Chinese antiques. Suspicion falls on a wealthy collector.
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English
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"This completely updated and revised, full-color edition of Rockhounding Utah reveals the grandeur of the state's exposed formations, its canyon walls etched with fossils, and the spires and arches of the Needles District in Canyonlands National Park. Each description of the 86 state's sites includes concise information on the material to be found there, the tools to bring, the best season to visit, the vehicle to drive, or when a remote find suggests...
7) The relic
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
From bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child comes Relic, the thriller that introduces FBI Special Agent Pendergast.
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...
But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash
8) Hatari!
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?
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English
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Beyond what most people think about archaeology--with its cleanly numbered dates, and discoveries--lies a vibrant and controversial realm of scientists, thieves, and contested land claims. Here, naturalist and adventurer Childs explores the field's transgressions against the cultures it tries to preserve, and pauses to ask: To whom does the past belong? Written in his trademark lyrical style, this book carries readers directly into his adventures...
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Boxcar children volume 89
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.
11) Rock star
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Jada Jones volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Fourth-grader Jada's best friend moved away but a class project on rocks and minerals, her favorite topic, could mean new friends, if only one of her teammates would stop being mean.
12) Dragon Teeth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
"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...
13) The fifth vial
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English
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The lives of a medical student, a scientist, and a private eye become intertwined in this medical suspense thriller concerning the illegal transplant organ trade.
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Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Definitive ed., Modern Library pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 186 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
When Dryer and Danforth set out to explore the Antarctic continent, they encounter a strange civilization that traveled to Earth from the far regions of space millions of years ago, and now Dryer and Danforth are sent to be Earth's ambassadors to space.
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English
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Lucid, nontechnical study presents the absorbing human, scientific and political dramas involved in the discovery and reconstruction of the gigantic reptiles, birds and other creatures who roamed the prehistoric West. Much of the book is devoted to the work of Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, two brilliant 19th-century paleontologists whose discoveries revolutionized the discipline, but whose bitter feud is legendary. 51 halftones. Bibliography....
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English
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"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 used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead...
17) Fossils
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Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Physical Desc
320 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
NorthWord Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to rocks and minerals, describing fifteen common varieties, five types of fossils, and seven different arrowheads and artifacts, with illustrations and instructions for related activities.
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