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Here is a whopping collection of tales of lost mines and buried treasure to stir the blood of any adventurous spirit and to satisfy the most lively imagination. Maps and photos galore accompany the stories.
Perry Eberhart gathered and researched almost 150 treasure tales and tells them with the same thoroughness, engaging style, and lively anecdotes that distinguish his other major contribution to Colorado lore and history: Guide to the Colorado...
3) Treasure
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 9
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Simon and Schuster
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c1988
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English
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In 391 a fanatical Christian emperor orders the destruction of the great library and museum at Alexandria. Secretly the most precious items are removed and hidden until 1991 when a UN plane is brought down in Greenland by a terrorist conspiracy and Dirk Pitt is caught up in a web of intrigue.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
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Simon & Schuster
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Dirk Pitt faces the most formidable foe of his career when he encounters billionaire shipping magnate Qin Shang who is obsessed with salvaging the Princess Dou Wan, a ship reportedly loaded with Chinese art treasures--including the bones of Peking Man.
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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 have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain...
6) Riptide
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For generations, treasure hunters have tried to unlock the deadly puzzle known as the Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine. Reputed to be the hiding place of pirate treasure, the Water Pit possesses an inexplicable ability to kill those who venture into it, from professionals to innocent explorers. The most comprehensive, high-tech expedition ever assembled has come to Maine...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 52
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Nancy and her friends become involved in a search for lost treasure.
11) Plum Island
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John Corey novels volume 1
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Warner Books
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[1997]
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English
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While investigating the murder of a young Long Island couple, an NYPD detective is stunned to find that they may have been involved in dealing genetically altered viruses
13) Sunken treasure
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Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha, a Spanish galleon sunk off Florida in a hurricane in 1622.
16) Mustang man
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It is almost too much for even a Sackett to handle! He could outride and outshoot any five men, but he was a fool for a lady in distress. The posse was hot on his trail for murder when he took time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperados. it wasn't til she bushwhacked him with a shotgun, and tried to poison him that he realised she was up to no good. After he'd heard her sad story, he should have cut and run, but somehow Sackett never seems...
17) Ghost canoe
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After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who say there were no survivors. Unexplained footprints on a desolate beach, a theft at the trading post, and glimpses of a wild "hairy man" convince Nathan that someone is hiding in the remote sea caves along the coast. With his new friend, Lighthouse George,...