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Jeremy Logan ; 1
Language
English
Description
Dr. Peter Crane investigates a mysterious illness after workers start getting sick on an oil platform far out in the Atlantic, right after the discovery of ruins 12,000 feet down that could be the lost city of Atlantis
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Series
Language
English
Description
A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead-and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria. The land is entirely sterile-and the blight is spreading. To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Marine explorer Dirk Pitt faces off against an elite army from an era gone-by in order to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado mine just as an explosion traps them deep within the earth. But their work won’t stay buried long. Dirk Pitt is on hand during the blast and quick to initiate...
A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado mine just as an explosion traps them deep within the earth. But their work won’t stay buried long. Dirk Pitt is on hand during the blast and quick to initiate...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Tiriki is a Guardian of the Light, but she has grown up in the shadow of the curse of Atlantis. Graceful and gifted, she is the beloved wife and partner of Micail, a spiritual leader and prince. But when disaster divides them, she must find her own path in a new land, and the world she discovers could change her innermost desires forever. Will she find Micail? And if they are reunited, can they find love once again? Damisa has inherited royal blood...
6) Lost cities
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book discusses investigations involving the stories and rumors of lost cities including Atlantis, El Dorado, Shangri-La, Ubar, and more.
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Language
English
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Are history books giving us the whole story? Or is civiliation for more complex and far older than we have been taught? Our school textbooks barely mention the 6,000-year-old Sumerian civilization, yet the latest archaelogical findings at sites such as Jericho and, most recently, Gobeki Tepe in Turkey, have been dated to 10,000 BC. Civilization goes back at least another 10,000 years, if we are willing to believe what our ancestors themselves claimed....
Author
Publisher
CDP
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With over ten years of research and study, a completely new interpretation of Plato's writings on Atlantis has finally been published. Using over a dozen different scholarly translations and interpretations of Plato's Timaeus and Critias - the texts that described the lost civilization of Atlantis, a completely new singular interpretation of Plato's Atlantis story has been made. Included with this new interpretation, are the latest discoveries that...
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Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Atlantis, the legendary city on an island in the Atlantic Ocean, was first described by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato as an empire larger than even the Roman Empire at its height. According to those people who believe in its reality, Atlantis existed in about 9,000 BCE (or the 1200s BCE according to another interpretation). Its empire allegedly stretched from the North American copper mines of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the shores of Mexico...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"The history of the Earth, all living beings, and human civilizations comprises a series of stops and starts, in which equilibrium abruptly ends during a sudden severe catastrophe ... [This history] has obscured and obliterated evidence of lost civilizations."--Jackets.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors-- known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark...