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Free Live Free
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Gene Wolfe |
A group of four down-on-their-luck strangers respond to a classified ad offering a strange bargain: live free of charge in an old man's house, and help him to prevent the city from having the buildin… |
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Treasure hunt
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George Sullivan |
Describes the historical background, the frustrations, false trails, lawsuits, and eventual success of the long search for a sunken Spanish treasure ship lost off the coast of Florida. |
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The Box and the Bone
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
While building a clubhouse, the boys uncover a buried treasure, only to have it disappear later that night. |
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How to find lost treasure in all fifty states and Canada, too!
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Joan Holub |
Describes treasures that have been lost in each of the fifty states and in various locations in Canada. |
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The secret of the forgotten city
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Carolyn Keene |
Nancy and her friends become involved in a search for lost treasure. |
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Sunken ships & treasure
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John Christopher Fine |
Describes the search for shipwrecks and sunken treasure, from the Anegada Passage in the Caribbean to the area near Cape Horn at the tip of South America. |
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Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon
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Peter Lourie |
Ein vielschichtiges Buch, bei dem die Suche nach einem legendären Inkaschatz in Ekuador gleichzeitig eine Metapher für den Hang des Menschen nach dem Geheimnisvollen und Unbekannten ist. Der Autor be… |
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The search for riches
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Andrew Langley |
Describes how people throughout history have looked for such valuable commodities as gold, jewels, oil, and buried treasure. |
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Treasure Island
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as se… |
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Children's Atlas of Lost Treasures
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Struan Reid |
Surveys lost treasures around the world, including pirate loot and treasures lost in wars and natural disasters. |
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Treasure
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Jean Waricha |
Describes many different kinds of treasure, the places where it is hidden, and the adventurers who search for it. |
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Hidden treasure
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C. B. Colby |
Describes various types of buried treasure and how to find it. |
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No country for old men
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Cormac McCarthy,Tom Stechschulte |
In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns… |
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The search for the Atocha treasure
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Fran O'Byrne-Pelham |
Discusses the sinking of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha off Key West, the discovery of the treasure-laden wreck in 1985 by treasure hunter Mel Fisher, and the archeological importance o… |
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Lost treasures of America
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Arnold Madison |
Describes the searches for lost treasures such as the White Sands Missile Base treasure whose existence is based on historical evidence. |
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Book Without a Name
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Kit Williams |
The author hid the title of this allegory in a sealed box to be opened a year and a day from publication, though clues to the title are hidden in the pages of the book. |
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Star Wars - The Adventures of Lando Calrissian - Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
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L. Neil Smith |
Gambler, rogue, and con-artiste, Lando Calrissian was born with a well-developed taste for the good life. More comfortable at the dealer's end of a fast shuffle than at the rear end of a blaster, Lan… |
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The dolphins of Laurentum (The Roman Mysteries #5)
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Caroline Lawrence |
A ragged stranger and the prospect of losing her family's fortune lead Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia to a seaside villa where possible danger and treasure are close at han… |
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The walkaway
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Scott Phillips |
Gunther Fahnstiel escapes his nursing home to find a suitcase of money hidden 10 years ago, but he's got a detective trying to piece together clues from 2 unsolved murders and others on his trail. |
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The case of the buried treasure
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James Preller |
"What's bright and shiny and hard to find? Buried treasure! Jigsaw's class finds a hidden riddle that leads them on a treasure hunt..." |
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