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Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Unless heiress Phadra Abbot finds her missing spendthrift father, she will be forced to enter into a marriage arranged by the Bank of England to pay off his debts. Before she gets too far, the forbiddingly handsome banker Grant Morgan catches up with her and compromised her, leading her to a most passionate marriage of convenience.
Author
Series
Age of discovery volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Seven centuries ago, the world was shrunk by the magic-spawned Cataclysm, which shattered the Empire into Nine Principalities and buried it in black ice. As ice and magic receded, Qiro Anturasi's genius for finding new trade routes allowed Nalenyr to prosper again. His talent yielded enormous power and wealth, but now it may cost his family their lives.
3) Eversion
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Doctor Silas Coade tries to keep his crew safe while figuring out why maritime disasters keep happening to him in different centuries in a time and space adventure from the author of Revelation Space.
Author
Language
English
Description
An expedition by sea to the Arctic in 1885 to search for the explorer, John Franklin. The protagonists are two men from Philadelphia, the dynamic but foolhardy organizer and his companion, a naturalist who considers himself a loser. The loser lives, the dynamo dies. By the author of Ship Fever.
5) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Awakened gently by Sun, Sailor sets off to explore new lands where he meets Fisher, and although they speak and dress differently, they find they have much in common. Includes author's note about the first encounter between a European explorer and a Native North American.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Iva Honeycutt is determined to make her first great discovery this summer--the treasure buried in her small town of Uncertain, Virginia, that her great-grandfather sought for years--if only she can keep her pesky cousin Heaven from interfering.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 30
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Thea Sisters are invited to the Festival of Time in Germany! They arrive in the Black Forest and find that a famouse clock has been stolen. The mouselets are on the case. Can they find the thief and return the clock before time runs out? -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restless quest ... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It...
Author
Series
Accidental adventures volume 3
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
If Oliver and Celia Navel had any hopes this year would be less life threatening than the last, they are quickly shattered... along with their television set. When a strange scientist warns them that their mother is - yest again - in peril, it's off to the Pacific Ocean they go. But navigating stormy seas proves easy comparing to tackling a Kraken - an enormous squid - and the twins think they might have bitten off more than they can chew. In their...
Author
Series
Ringworld series volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must...
11) Freya & Zoose
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Freya has always craved--and feared--adventure. Traipsing all over the world is simply not what dignified rockhopper penguins do. But when she hears about Captain Salomon August Andrée's hot-air balloon expedition to the North Pole, Freya packs her copy of Hints to Lady Travellers and hops on board. Only moments after leaving land, Freya discovers a fellow stowaway! Meet Zoose, the scrappy, uncouth mouse whose endless wisecracks and despicable manners...
12) Neptune
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets-- billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia-- are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago Ilona Magyr's father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead: crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune's turbulent seas. With legendary...
Author
Series
Explorers Guild volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
The golden age of adventure stories returns with this splendidly designed, action-packed, globe-trotting tale that combines the bravura storytelling of Kipling with the irresistible style of "The Adventures of Tintin." Set against the backdrop of World War I, with Western Civilization on the edge of calamity, the first installment in The Explorers Guild series concerns the Guild's quest to find the golden city of Buddhist myth. The search will take...
Author
Series
Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Stella Starflake Pearl has been eagerly awaiting her next adventure, ever since she and Felix returned from the Snowy Icelands. She fears, however, that she might never be sent on another expedition, especially since the president of the Polar Bear Explorers' Club himself is afraid of her ice princess powers. But when disaster strikes and Felix is snatched by a fearsome witch, Stella and the rest of the junior explorers-including a reluctant new ally...
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 15
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From jacket of book: When his stepfather's gambling debts leave him a marked man, Francis Courtney feels to South Africa with revenge on his mind. His uncle, Tom Courtney, killed Francis's father. Christopher Courtney gave up a privileged position to become a fierce warrior, but his path led to violence and treachery. When the two Courtney men collide, the sins of the father will change the fate of a younger generation.
Tom Courtney, one of four...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition―and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder....
17) The maw: a novel
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Milo Luttrell never expected to step inside the mouth of an ancient cave in rural Tanzania. After all, he's a historian--not an archaeologist. Summoned under the guise of a mysterious life-changing opportunity, Milo suddenly finds himself in the midst of an expedition into the largest underground system in Africa, helmed by a brash billionaire-turned-exploration guru and his elite team of cavers. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to finally solve...
18) El naranjo
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"Cinco relatos donde Martín II, hijo de Cortés con Malinche, intercambia juicios sobre su padre y su madre con su hermano Martín I; Polibio de Megalópolis reflexiona sobre Escipión Emiliano; un galán de Hollywood visita un prostíbulo de enanas en Acapulco; y un marinero genovés cuenta mentiras sobre el Nuevo Mundo. Caen los templos, las insignias, los trofeos. Caen los mismísimos dioses. Y con sus restos humeantes se reinventa el orden mientras...
19) The doldrums
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An eccentric like all Helmsleys, eleven-year-old Archer escapes his overprotective mother and recruits two friends, Oliver and Adelaide, to help him plan a rescue of his long-lost grandparents, world-famous explorers who disappeared atop an iceberg in the Antarctic.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
"Brimming with sardonic humor, antic imagination and bravura storytelling skill, Richler's fifth novel (after Joshua Was Here ) is an interlocking account of the outrageously bold and daring eponymous protagonist, and of his would-be biographer, brilliant but alcoholic Moses Berger, obsessed with discovering the mysteries of Solomon's life and--maybe--his death. Perhaps inspired by Canada's Bronfman family, Richler creates the three Gursky brothers,...
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