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"From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the...
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Ivory key duology volume 1
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English
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Four siblings. A country in ruins. One quest to save them all. Vira is desperate to get out of her mother's shadow and establish her legacy as a revered queen of Ashoka. But with the county's only quarry running out of magic--a previous resource that has kept Ashoka safe from conflict--she can barely protect her citizens from the looming threat of war. And if her enemies discover this, they'll stop at nothing to seize the last of the magic. Vira's...
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2008
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English
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Mara Coyne's new client has left her uneasy. Republican kingmaker Richard Tobias has hired her, he says, because of her skill in recovering stolen art and advocating for the rightful owners, but Mara senses that he is not telling her everything. Tobias reveals that a centuries-old map was stolen from an archaeological dig he is sponsoring in China, and he wants her to get it back. But as Mara begins her investigation, she uncovers the shocking truth:...
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Mapmakers trilogy volume 1
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English
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She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World -- a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on...
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Tower of winds volume 1
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English
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When two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, nineteen-year-old Elias, a royal mapmaker, sets sail with King Ulises to uncover long-held secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the king's two young brothers eighteen years earlier.
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"Channeling Indiana Jones, New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin pairs a woman in search of her family's truth with a hard-hitting professional treasure hunter for the second Blood Ties romantic thriller. As an unknown assailant stalks then across the treacherous Sierra Madre wilderness, they race to follow their treasure map's directions to a hidden trove of gold... A novel of taut suspense and danger from the New York Times bestselling mistress...
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Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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In the all-white Missouri town of "Calico Springs, Willie's life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The 'miracle boy' died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn't become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the Game provides a target--a blinking blue dot on the map. Willie's...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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Kit Livingstone is on the run, hunted by the Burley Men, as he tries to piece together a map that reveals the hidden dimensions of the multiverse. Kit, however, is not the only one traveling through time and space to influence the future of the future.
11) Ivy and Flame
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Unicorn Academy treasure hunt volume 3
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Ivy, Flame, and the rest of Ruby dorm must find the final piece of the treasure map, which will lead them to the Unicorn's Diamond, but someone else is determined to find it first.
12) White Peak
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Greg Rask, a dying tech billionaire, has invested millions chasing miracle cures. None of them are worth a damn, but he refuses to give up. Now, he's gathering a team willing to go to the ends of the earth chasing life. Each of Rask's crew has beaten incredible odds to rise from the ashes of their old lives to where they are now. Together, their next task is to retrieve a painting that is believed to hide a map which, if genuine, marks it as a treasure...
13) The book of maps
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Global Collective Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In the summer of 2002, Brendan Tibbet, a filmmaker whose luck has run low, takes his ten-year-old son Brenlyn on a raucous road trip across America. Following a 1930s travel guide Brendan purchased at a yard sale, the two-week trek from LA to New Hampshire covers 16 states, hitting the iconic stops along the way, Yosemite, the Great Salt Lake, Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, replete with wild exploits both hilarious...
14) The backstabbers
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"Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town--in a thunder storm--and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot--and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Buttons can't...
15) Black maps
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John March novels volume 1
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Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Avon
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Present day. When 36-year-old Robyn Willoughby discovers an exquisite blood-stained Tudor map in her father's antique map shop, desperate for a distraction from her problems, she decides to investigate. But as Robyn delves into the mystery, she finds herself caught up in a centuries-old secret - one that will change her life forever. 1569. Forced to flee Holland to escape persecution, 20-year-old Freida Ortelius uses her mapmaking skills to start...
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Mapmakers volume 3
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RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Alidade, Lewis, Blue, and their new friends and Mapmakers, finally take on the Night Coats, who will ruin any chance of hope for their homes and family if they do not succeed in stopping them.
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Devlin Quick mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Twelve year old Devlin Quick is determined to bring a thief to justice when someone steals a page out of a rare maps book in the New York Public Library"--
20) Generations
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Mal wins an old map in a card game. Ancient and written in impenetrable symbols, the former owner insists it's worthless. Yet River Tam can read it, and says it leads to one of the Arks, legendary ships that brought humans from Earth-that-was to the 'Verse. The salvage potential alone is staggering. But the closer they get to the ancient ship, the more agitated River becomes. She says something is waiting inside, something powerful, and very angry..."--Publisher....
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