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"As one of the many installments in Jules Verne's Voyage Extraordinaire series, Journey to the Center of the Earth promises high stakes and thrilling adventure. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock bought an ancient runic manuscript, which chronicles the lives of Norwegian Kings, he did not expect to learn of anything but the history of Icelandic leaders. However, upon further inspection, Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, find that the manuscript includes...
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Geologist Emily Hansen, a lowly mud-loggerin the oilfields, is hired by an oil company in Denver foran office job and gets her first taste of corporate life, which includes two suicides in the space of a few days. That's if they were suicides. Emily decides to find out. By the author of Tensleep.
7) Killer dust
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This author's latest creation sends Em Hansen to Florida, where she investigates a strange dust cloud supposedly arriving from Africa. Before it's all over, NASA, the FBI, and her new boyfriend are involved.
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The way home. The spires. They've been looming in the distance, watching silently as the young survivors of Aero Horizon Flight 16 crossed a gauntlet of surreal and dangerous landscapes. After weeks of hardship, Molly and her friends have reached the eerie structure they spotted at the start of their journey, all in a desperate bid that it will provide answers about their ordeal...and perhaps a way home. Here the survivors will finally learn the truth...
13) Fault line
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Forensic geologist Em Hansen lands in the middle of a 5.2 earthquake in Salt Lake City, but rather than studying the quake, Em, at the behest of the FBI, must investigate the murder of a fellow geologist, killed only hours after the tremor.
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When Jordan finds a fossilized log with a map inside, the campers of Camp Dakota set out in search of treasure, but since erosion and weathering have changed the landscape they must use their knowledge of geology to follow the landmarks on the map. Includes glossary and experiments.
16) Tensleep
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Em Hansen works as a mudlogger among a mostly coarse crew of working men. Though she suffers the ill will of the majority, Em is doggedly attached to her work, which involves recording data about mud samples, even as the arrival of a coolly elegant woman geologist increases the sexism quotient. The first death claims Em's mentor Bill, a careful man whose car skids out of control; next to go is young Willie, apparently crushed to death by wild horses....
17) An eye for gold
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"Forensic geologist Emily Hansen uses geological clues to solve crimes. Now, fresh from extricating herself - just barely - from suspicion in the investigation of the murder of a dinosaur paleontologist in Salt Lake City, Em allows a wily FBI agent to talk her into assisting the Bureau on another case." "Em and the agent head into the deserts of Nevada: gambling and gold-mining country, where fortunes - and lives - are won and lost. Their task is...
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The adventure begins when a strange Icelander parchment is uncovered in an old bookstore and reaches a fevered pitch that never lets up as Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel, and their guide, Hans, journey to the center of the earth. From the moment they reach the extinct volcano of the Mountain of Sneffels and make their treacherous descent, their chances of reaching the surface alive again become very slim, as they encounter boiling seas, serpent-like...