Douglas Preston
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020, 2020
Language
English
Description
"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. A GHASTLY ENIGMA WITH NO APPARENT SOLUTION. 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...
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novel volume 1
Publisher
Plaza e Janés
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
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 borro su pista hasta que algunos famélicos supervivientes pudieron salir del desierto, delirando sobre hambre, asesinatos y canibalismo.
Ahora, el sorprendente hallazgo del diario de...
4) Jennie
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
On a research trip to West Africa, Dr. Hugo Archibald of the Boston Museum of Natural History encounters an orphaned baby chimpanzee. Archibald decides to bring the ape, whom he names Jennie, back to Boston and raise her alongside his own two young children as a kind of scientific experiment.
Jennie captures the hearts of everyone she encounters. She believes herself to be a human being. She does almost everything a human child can, from riding a...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
This riveting true story recounts the authors journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronados desperate search for the legendary Seven Cities of Gold. First published in 1992 and now available only from UNM Press, this classic adventure tale reveals the Southwest as it was when Europeans first saw it and shows how much, and how little, it has changed. The great myth of the American West, Preston writes, is that there was a...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a flawless expedition. But from the first approach to the meteorite,...