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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Flattery sisters, four brilliant and very different girls raised in a small town south of Dublin, were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in a tragic accident. Now, in their thirties--each unmarried, each holding a PhD--they are striving to make an impact on an increasingly volatile world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from classrooms in Connecticut to fancy catering gigs in London's Notting Hill, until one...
Author
Series
Sapphire brides volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1890s Montana, a daughter who has moved from one mining camp to the next desires stability and love, not the blue stones her father brings home; when a handsome geologist arrives, he offers her new insight and hope"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Zach Wells, a laconic geologist-slash-paleobiologist, has the trappings of a comfortable life, yet is not contented. He's expert in the geological history of a cave in the Grand Canyon, but less so where his wife and daughter are concerned. And when his daughter develops unusual vision problems and has a seizure, the world of this family of three crumbles. Powerless in the face of his daughter's slow deterioration, Wells finds a note asking for help...
4) Beyond sleep
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"In this moving tragicomedy," an academic hoping to secure his reputation gains "self-knowledge . . . achieved at great cost" in this literary novel. (Publishers Weekly)
Alfred Issendorf is a Dutch geology student obsessed with the thought of dying without a major scientific discovery to his name. Setting off on a geological expedition which brings him to Norway, Issendorf is out to prove that craters in the landscape are actually holes caused...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From critically acclaimed author Laura Bickle (Dark Alchemy) comes the first novel in the Wildlands series, NINE OF STARS. Longmire meets Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson in this exciting new series that shows how weird and wonderful the West can truly be.
Winter has always been a deadly season in Temperance, but this time, there's more to fear than just the cold...As the daughter of an alchemist, Petra Dee has faced all manner of occult horrors...
Author
Series
Wildlands novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Petra Dee and her immortal husband, Gabe, have been trying to gain a toehold in what passes for ordinary life in Temperance, Wyoming--a wickedly enchanted land founded generations ago by the alchemist, Lascaris. Petra may be adept when it comes to the uncanny, but as a reasoned geologist, Petra still can't fathom the wildfires suddenly engulfing Yellowstone National Park, or why Gabe claims to have seen the sky explode in flames. The answers could...
8) Shear
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
On a Mediterranean island, geologist Peter Nichols must do a lot of juggling as he investigates the death of a quarry employee. There is the mistress he brought along, there is the daughter of the quarry owner--who seduces him so he will write an exonerating report--there is the dead man's beautiful widow and there are the faxes from Nichols' pregnant wife. By the author of Juggling the Stars.
9) Deep past
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"If nature could invent intelligence of our scale in a blink of geologic time, who's to say it hasn't been done before... A routine dig in Kazakhstan takes a radical turn for thirty-two-year-old anthropologist Claire Knowland when a stranger turns up at the site with a bizarre find from a remote section of the desolate Kazakh Steppe. Her initial skepticism of this mysterious discovery gives way to a realization that the find will shake the very foundations...
10) Witch Creek
Author
Series
Wildlands novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the backcountry of Yellowstone, evil moves below the surface . . . Following Nine of Stars comes the next chapter in Laura Bickle's critically acclaimed Wildlands series As the daughter of an alchemist, Petra Dee has battled supernatural horrors and experienced astonishing wonders. But there's no magic on earth that can defeat her recent cancer diagnosis, or help find her missing husband, Gabriel. Still, she would bet all her remaining days that...
11) Tensleep
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 1
Publisher
O. Penzler Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Em Hansen, a woman working as a mudlogger on an oil rig in Wyoming, investigates the death of a friend, the rig's geologist, while battling sexism. Plenty of oil drilling lore, the author being a geologist.
12) Chasm
Author
Series
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"While teaching on a trip to the Grand Canyon, Frankie MacFarlane is attacked and tries to escape the canyons, eventually up again ecoterrorist wannabes trying to destroy one of the exits"--
15) Fault line
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
16) Dead dry
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
17) An eye for gold
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
18) Rock bottom
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A white water trip through the Grand Canyon goes off-course when Em Hansen's husband is accused of murdering a fellow rafter.
19) Mother nature
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
When a woman working for an environment service is murdered in California, her father hires geologist and sleuth Em Hansen to find the killers. Hansen discovers the victim was involved in a dispute with land developers.
Author
Series
Em Hansen mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
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.
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