Wasatch County Library

"#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"--

From time immemorial, the region of modern-day Turkey has served as a crossroads between east and west. Professor Jennifer Tobin leads a discussion of "Anatolia" from early archaeological sites and the Trojan War up through the Greeks, Persians, Alexander the Great, and the Romans. A land of immense cultural significance, Ancient Turkey has housed an amazing array of peoples-the study of whom shines light on the modern world.

After years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a Seeker, Quin Kincaid, fifteen, learns that she will be using the ancient artifacts and sacred knowledge as an assassin.

Photographs and text document life in Biblical times, surveying the clothing, food, and civilizations of a wide variety of cultures, including the Israelites, Babylonians, Persians, and Romans.

Describes the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and modern efforts to excavate and reconstruct the site of the ancient city.

"In a new pounding adventure, Jake races against time to outfight and outwit Kalverum Rex, knowing that if the skull king wins, he'll be unstoppable. Filled with unexpected danger, challenging puzzles, and dazzling action, this is a first-rate, fast-paced thriller" --Publisher

"Done waiting for answers, former Navy SEAL Leif Metcalf seizes control and teams up with his greatest enemy--a move that comes with a deadly risk. Torn apart by opposing views on how to handle Leif's act of treachery, team Reaper hunts one of their own--agreeing only on starting, not stopping, the final battle prophesied in the Book of the Wars"--

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

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Travel to Egypt and join a team of archaeologists who have uncovered what evidence reveals is the lost fourth pyramid of Giza. Djedefre, son of the great Khufu, would stamp his supremacy by erecting the highest pyramid ever built, towering some 60 feet above Khufu's Great Pyramid of Giza. This is the story of the most powerful, prolific, and arguably, the most cruel and debauched of all Egypt's dynasties.