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Douglas J Preston
21) Crooked river
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Pendergast novel volume 19
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400 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Appearing out of nowhere to horrify the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island, Florida, dozens of identical, ordinary-looking shoes float in on the tide and are washed up on the tropical beach -- each one with a crudely severed human foot inside. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene -- and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the incomprehensible puzzle. An early pathology...
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New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston teams up with Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to present a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. The Monster of Florence is a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide -- and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi are caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.--From publisher description.
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xii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Dinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former Natural History columnist Douglas Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is a celebration of the best-known and best-loved museum in the United States.
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480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Douglas Preston's Cities of Gold is a riveting account of his journey in the footsteps of Coronado, the legendary 16th-century explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition through the American Southwest. Preston and a friend, Walter Nelson, set out on horseback across one thousand miles of vast deserts and unknown mountains retracing Coronado's search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold. Forced to battle extremes of heat and cold,...
27) Huesos olvidados
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Nora Kelly novel volume 1
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347 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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Crimen, canibalismo, una expedición maldita y un misterio enterrado en el tiempo. Preston & Child inauguran una irresistible serie que mezcla arqueología, historia, crimen y suspense. La joven arqueóloga Nora Kelly recibe una extraordinaria propuesta: liderar un equipo en busca del llamado Campamento perdido de la expedición Donner. Su misterio se remonta a 1847, cuando un grupo de pioneros quedó atrapado en las montañas de California y se perdió...
28) Costa maldita
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363 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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En la decimoquinta entrega de la serie protagonizada por el agente especial Pendergast, una terrible amenaza acecha bajo la aparente tranquilidad de una población costera cercana a Salem. El agente especial Pendergast acepta una investigación privada en Exmouth, localidad costera cercana a Salem. Tiene que resolver el robo de una valiosa colección de vinos propiedad del escultor Percival Lake y de su compañera Carole. Para ello viaja al lugar...
29) Dance of death
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706 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
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English
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"FBI Special Agent Pendergast is pitted against his most personal foe: His brother, Diogenes, has planned a horrendous crime and is framing Pendergast for a series of terrible murders."--Provided by the publisher.
30) Impacto
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426 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Un meteorito caído en la costa de Maine, una mina en Camboya y una extraña radiación en el planeta Marte mantienen un inquietante vínculo entre sí..."--P. [4] of cover.
31) Fuego blanco
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426 pages ; 20 cm.
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Español
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Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law when he uncovers a mysterious connection between long-dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to an outbreak of modern day killings involving a deadly arsonist.
33) Dos tumbas
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493 pages ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Special Agent Pendergast assists NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta in the investigation of a number of killings that ultimately prove to be messages from his wife's kidnappers.
35) Blasphemy
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11 audio discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A CIA operative is sent to a remote Arizona mountain with a group of scientists to turn on the world's biggest supercollider. His mission : to discover a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it.
36) Impact
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364 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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When a brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast, and NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars, it's just the start of the adventure for a former CIA operative, technicians, and many others.
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English
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That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now ... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite, the largest ever discovered, from a remote island off the coast of South...
38) Diablo Mesa
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Nora Kelly novel volume 3
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English
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New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child continue with the wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson. Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal -- to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical...
39) Gideon's sword
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"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than twenty years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon on his crime -- and offer him the chance of a lifetime" -- Provided by publisher.
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Gideon Crew -- brilliant scientist, master thief -- is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security. Accomplishing the impossible, Gideon steals the parchment -- only to learn that hidden beneath the gorgeously illuminated image is...