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Timeline

Michael Crichton · 496 pages

Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualised - and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century feudal France.

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Tyrannosaur Canyon

Douglas Preston · 365 pages

A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scientific discovery of all time... What fire bolt from the galactic dark shattered the Earth eons ago, and now hides in that remote cleft in the southwest

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Relic

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 468 pages

As taken from the author website (www.prestonchild.com): Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite o

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Map of Bones

James Rollins · 540 pages

The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date -- a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to create a terrifying new world order out of the ashes of modern civilization.The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany

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12.21

Dustin Thomason · 402 pages

An ancient prophecy fortells that the world will end on the 21 December 2012. In Central America, a treasure hutner discovers a Maya relic - a mysterious and ornate codex, but when he smuggles it into the US, he brings with him an old and deadly secret. Early in December 2012, the codex come to AChel Manu, a Maya world authority. She is torn between the chance to translate the codex herself and he

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Sphinx

Robin Cook · 313 pages

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The Atlantis Plague

A.G. Riddle · 397 pages

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The Medici Secret

Michael White · 360 pages

"In the crypt of the Medici Chapel in Florence, scientist Edie Granger, and her uncle, Carlin Mackenzie, are examining the mummified remains of one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy. The embalmers have done their work well in terms of outward appearance. But under the crisp skin, the organs have shrivelled to a fraction of their original size, which means it is difficult to gather

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A Skeleton in God's Closet

Paul L. Maier · 392 pages

Dr. Jonathan Weber, Harvard professor and biblical scholar, is looking forward to his sabbatical year on an archaeological dig in Israel. But a spectacular find that seems to be an archaeologist’s dream-come-true becomes a nightmare that many fear will be the death rattle of Christianity. Carefully researched and compellingly written, A Skeleton in God’s Closet explores the tension between fait

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Almost Adam

Petru Popescu · 607 pages

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Esau

Philip Kerr · 394 pages

The accidental discovery of a mysterious fossil skull unleashes a political and scientific struggle as a paleoanthropologist tries to confirm that the skull represents proof of a missing link, while in the Punjab, two nuclear powers draw ever closer to war.

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Papyrus: A Thriller

John Oehler · 347 pages

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Parasites Like Us

Adam Johnson · 341 pages

Hoping to learn more about those he loves by studying the lost civilizations of human history, anthropologist Hank Hannah works at the site of a twelve-thousand-year-old grave and unearths a deadly legacy linked to the Ice Age.

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Break No Bones

Kathy Reichs · 352 pages

Struggling with a lackluster teaching position at an archaeology field school in South Carolina, Tempe Brennan discovers a fresh skeleton among ancient bones and traces leads to a free street clinic where patients are going missing.

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Skeleton Crew

Beverly Connor · 391 pages

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Domain

Steve Alten · 512 pages

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The Mind Parasites

Colin Wilson · 222 pages

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Boundary

Eric Flint, Ryk E. Spoor · 544 pages

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The Lost Sisterhood

Anne Fortier · 672 pages

"From the author of the New York Times bestseller Juliet comes a mesmerizing novel about a young scholar who risks her reputation--and her life--on a thrilling journey to prove that the legendary warrior women known as the Amazons actually existed. Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claime

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Mars Life

Ben Bova · 432 pages

Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars

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The First Day

Marc Levy

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Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel · 313 pages

"17 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. Today: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. A swift and spellbinding tale told almost exclusively through transcriptions of interv

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Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants

Rob MacGregor · 230 pages

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The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown · 511 pages

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