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One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treasure Island's timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do has appealed to generations of readers ever since Robert Louis Stevenson penned it in 1881 with the claim: "If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day." But more than just a children’s classic, the novel is considered to be one of the greatest feats of storytelling in the English...
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Emily Windsnap volume 8
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Traveling home by cruise ship should be a relaxing break after Emily's latest adventure, but things take a turn when the ship is overtaken by a pirate king and his crew. After the pirates collect everyone's riches, they steal something even more valuable: Aaron. The pirate king's eldest son takes Aaron captive, forcing him to help guide the pirates to the mythical Trident's Treasure. So Emily dives into action and joins the younger son's crew in...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 27
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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'Arm̌e 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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"For fans of resourceful amateur sleuths, thriller-leaning cozies, and readers of Jenn McKinlay's Library Lovers Mysteries. From international bestselling author Alicia Bessette comes an all-new mystery series featuring Callie Padget a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks who is pulled into a deadly web of secrets when a mysterious fall at a lighthouse echoes a tragedy from her past"-- Provided by publisher.
When Callie is laid...
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Allan Quatermain series volume 1
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Allan Quatermain relates the events of his safari into the interior of South Africa in search of the legendary lost treasure mines of King Solomon.
6) Holes
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
7) Us in ruins
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Harper, an impreint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2024.
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The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasn't been seen since 1932, but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that. Drawn by the vase's supposed magical properties, Margot embarks on her school's archaeological trip to Pompeii. Sure, it's her first time holding a shovel, but she's got something no one else does: lost teenage explorer Van Keane's journal. Poring over the poetic entries that serve as a map to the vase's missing shards, Margot finds herself...
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Treasure hunters volume 9
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Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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In the finale of James Patterson's bestselling series, the Kidds compete for fame and glory--but can they solve a mystery, restore their family name and uncover the biggest treasure yet? Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy Kidd have uncovered and rescued some of the world's greatest treasures, without ever seeking out fame and glory. So they aren't happy when the Collier Kids (as in Nathan Collier, the Kidds' nemesis) start treasure hunting for the camera,...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2024]
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"Becca Soloway's perfect summer goes up in smoke when her mom flees a looming divorce by dragging Becca to a Montana resort. To make matters worse, her mom's hasty booking lands them not at a spa, but an aging dude ranch called Far Away. Becca is miserable until she meets the wrangler's son, Jon, who shows her what might be the first clue to a century-old mystery: the lost treasure of a Robin Hood-like outlaw known as Pearlhandle Pete. As they slowly...
11) Long Fin Silver
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Shark school volume 9
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
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Harry Hammer looks for the lost treasure of Long Fin Silver, the greatest pirate of the deep seas, in this ninth Shark School (mis)adventure.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 8
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When their ship, the Lost, explodes, Bick, Beck, Tommy, and Storm are stranded on a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, but the situation worsens when the treasure hunters kidnap their parents, forcing the Kidd siblings to follow clues around the globe to uncover an ancient treasure and save their family.
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Sherlock Society volume 1
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Aladdin
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2024.
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Twelve-year-old Alex Sherlock, his thirteen-year-old sister Zoe, and their friends Lina and Yadi decide to spend their summer in Miami investigating the many "cold cases" their grandfather accumulated during his years as a reporter--first up, Al Capone and a buried treasure.
14) Fathomless
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Spineless volume 2
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Union Square Kids
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[2024]
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"Three children track down clues to pirate treasure, uncover a smuggling ring, and confront the ecological damage of the fishing industry in Gilded Age Florida"-- Provided by publisher.
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A to Z mysteries.Super edition volume 1-4
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Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Detective camp: "Welcome to summer camp for detectives! The kids can't wait to spend a week learning about the science of crime solving. Soon all the campers are working on a mystery. But while Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are figuring out their part of the puzzle, they stumble onto something suspicious. Could a real crime be happening at detective camp?"--Container
Mayflower treasure hunt: "Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are spending Thanksgiving in Plymouth,...
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Yale University Press
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[2021]
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Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering...
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2024]
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"In a world where the rain never stops, impoverished Jin Haldar is offered the score of a lifetime--a massive stash of gold hidden in the sunken ruins of Las Vegas and must do what she promised herself she'd never do again: dive"-- Provided by publisher.
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Idea & Design Works, LLC
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2024.
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In the 1500s, a ship of seafaring navigators run afoul of a lost world where there is only one king, the King of the Monsters! Before humanity had successfully traveled the entire globe, it was believed that monsters ruled the oceans just beyond the horizon. "Here there be dragons..." was written on maps to denote the areas people dared not go. That is, until Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the seas, visiting foreign lands and collecting treasure....
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Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone
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[2023]
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"After years of study, you know as much as anyone about the Knights Templar. The mysterious order of religious warriors grew to have great power and wealth in Europe in the 1100s. But in the 1300s, the organization dissolved and scattered. Nobody is sure what happened to the knights' secrets or the gold and artifacts they may have left behind. Now it's up to you to find out! With dozens of choices and clues to investigate, which path will YOU choose...
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Oxford University Press
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2000
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Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the starting point for The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos's...
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