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This and That: Historic Treasures March 2023 |
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Preserving the Past at Woodbridge Public Library!
An exhibit of documents, pictures and objects from the
Until then…enjoy these mystery/thrillers in search of
historic treasures!
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The School of Night : a Novel
by Louis Bayard
More than 400 years after the founding of a scholarly organization that covertly discussed religion, science and the black arts, disgraced Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish searches for a missing letter than may prove the group's existence and contain the formula for alchemy.
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The Paris Vendetta : a Novel
by Steve Berry
Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization that is hiding a dangerous Napoleon-era secret. By the author of The Charlemagne Pursuit.
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The Relic Master
by Christopher Buckley
Pressured by an ambitious patron who would buy a cardinalship, a 16th-century relic hunter and his reckless artist best friend unsuccessfully forge a shroud before being placed in the custody of loutish mercenaries to steal the celebrated Shroud of Chambřy.
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The Rule of Four
by Ian Caldwell
Endeavoring to decipher a five-hundred-year old text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, researchers Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret.
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Lost Empire
by Clive Cussler
Discovering a Confederate relic during a diving expedition in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo learn of the existence of a second artifact that is being ruthlessly sought on multiple continents by a fast-rising Mexican political party. By the best-selling author of The Silent Sea.
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Foretold by Thunder : a Thriller
by E. M. Davey
A journalist and an archeologist explore an ancient, esoteric Etruscan Civilization that seems to have a series of deadly coincidences attached to anyone's interest in it while they are chased across Europe and Africa in pursuit of an ancient text.
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The Quest
by Nelson DeMille
After receiving a tip from a dying priest four unlikely partners begin a quest to find the Holy Grail in the jungles of Ethiopia in this new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Panther.
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The Barbary Pirates : an Ethan Gage Adventure
by William Dietrich
During Napoleon’s reign, American adventurer Ethan Gage is in a desperate race with the Barbary pirates—and with his nemesis Aurora Somerset—to rediscover and control the mirror of Archimedes, an ancient super-weapon that legend contends burned a Roman fleet. (Historical adventure). By the author of The Dakota Cipher.
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Set the Stars Alight
by Amanda Dykes
"Reeling from her parents' deaths, Lucy Claremont discovers an artifact in their London flat, leading her to a seaside estate. Aided by her childhood friend Dashel, a forensic astronomer, they start to unravel a history of heartbreak, sacrifice, and love begun 200 years prior-one that may heal them both."
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The Map of Lost Memories : a Novel
by Kim Fay
Teaming up in 1925 Shanghai to find a priceless set of scrolls believed to contain the lost history of the Khmer empire, Irene Blum and temple-robber Simone Merlin commit a shockingly violent act before discovering unexpected commonalities in their respective pasts. A first novel by the award-winning author of Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam.
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Inquisition
by David J. L Gibbins
While investigating a wreck off the Cornish coast, marine archaeologist Jack Howard finds clues to the location of the Holy Grail and sets off to the sunken ruin of Port Royal, Jamaica, all the while hunted by those who seek the Grail for nefarious purposes.
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Dead Sea Rising : a Novel
by Jerry B. Jenkins
Leading her first archaeological dig in Jordan to search for concrete evidence from the life of biblical patriarch Abraham, Nicole discovers a 4,000-year-old complex with ties to an ancient puzzle and modern-day Jewish-Islamic peace efforts.
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The Last Templar
by Raymond Khoury
When a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal a particular artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly teams up with Tess for an investigation that takes them through three continents. A first novel.
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The Historian : a Novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor. A first novel.
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Seven Wonders : a Novel
by Ben Mezrich
After his reclusive, math-genius brother is murdered, Jack's search for the killer sends him to the Seven Wonders of the World, where he stumbles upon an ancient mystery. By the author of The Accidental Billionaires.
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The Eight : a Novel
by Katherine Neville
In a story spanning from the court of Catherine the Great to modern times, the brutal course of history is played out as Catherine "Cat" Velis attempts to thwart world disaster.
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Old Bones
by Douglas J. Preston
A series debut by the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of the Agent Pendergast thrillers finds young curator Nora Kelly and historian Guy Porter teaming up for an excavation in Sierra Nevada that exposes complex realities about the Donner Party. Read by Cynthia Farrell.
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7 Deadly Wonders : a Novel
by Matthew Reilly
A prediction that promises ultimate power to whomever restores the Golden Capstone, an ancient Egyptian structure that protected people from global flooding before it was broken and scattered by Alexander the Great, prompts a brutal competition among top nations, terrorists, and a coalition. By the author of Contest and Ice Station.
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The Last Odyssey : a Thriller
by James Rollins
When a medieval ship containing a clockwork gold atlas by famous Muslim inventor Ismail al-Jazari is discovered beneath Greenlands frozen tundra, Sigma Force is challenged to prevent a regional uprising inspired by the tales of Homer.
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A Death in Vienna
by Daniel Silva
Sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, art restorer and occasional spy Gabriel Allon sets out to uncover the truth about a photograph of an unnamed man who had brutalized his mother during the final days of World War II, during the Death March from Auschwitz, a quest that could unravel an evil with profound repercussions in the present.
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Marah Chase and the Conqueror's Tomb
by Jay Stringer
A series debut by the award-winning author of the Eoin Miller trilogy introduces rogue archaeologist Marah Chase, a Jewish lesbian who is recruited by MI6 to help recover a dangerous treasure from the time of Alexander the Great.
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Sanctus
by Simon Toyne
When a man performs a dangerous, symbolic act on the mountain known as the Citadel, a Vatican-like city-state that towers above the city of Ruin in contemporary Turkey, a deadly chain of events is set in motion that could destroy the certainties of modern life.
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