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1) Treasure
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
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Description
Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rare volumes...maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the world's balance of power. Now Dirk Pitt discovers the secret trail of the treasures of Alexandria-a trail that plunges him into a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe. Zealots threaten to unseat the governments of Egypt and Mexico, exposing America to invasion and economic collapse. Suddenly, from East to West, anarchists...
2) First light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
Author
Series
Konrad Simonsen novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Under the heartless vault of Greenland's arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life, she has lain alone, hidden in the ice cap, for twenty-five years. Now an ice melt has revealed her. When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to investigate this horrific murder and he sees how she was attacked, it triggers a dark memory and he realizes this was not the...
5) Sacred stone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In the remote wastes of Greenland, an ancient artifact possessing catastrophic radioactive power is unearthed. But the astounding find puts the world at risk. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his network of spies known as The Corporation must fight to protect the stone-and prevent the outbreak of World War III. In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in...
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Language
English
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Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres—and "a diverse and masterly writer” (The New York Times Book Review)—comes an enthralling epic tale, written in the tradition of the old Norse sagas, that takes us to fourteenth-century Greenland and tells the story of a proud landowner and his unforgettable family.
Jane Smiley brings us to a farflung place of glittering fjords, blasting...
Jane Smiley brings us to a farflung place of glittering fjords, blasting...
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English
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Description
From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all-time classic.
An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap. In temperatures 40 degrees below zero, six men and four women survive.
But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them, there are some sinister questions to answer – the first one being, who shot the pilot before the crash.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked off the coast of Greenland, Leiv Steinursson, a young Viking boy, is helped by two Inuit children, twelve-year-old Apuluk and his eleven-year-old sister Narva, and is accepted into their community, gladly leaving his violent lifestyle behind.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
"For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of even older artifacts--tools of war--dating back to the Bronze...
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
On a journey to appease the Sea's Mother, Navarana saves the life of one of the Strangers who had come to Greenland to rescue the few Christians living there and together they find a way to end the suffering of Navarana's people.
12) The abduction
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
13) Pandora's curse
Author
Series
Philip Mercer novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, in a secret Nazi submarine base, boxes made from looted wartime gold were hidden away. These "Pandora's boxes" contained an artifact so lethal that whoever possessed them held the power to unleash hell upon the Earth. And now they have been found by a man who will use them to hold the world hostage-unless Philip Mercer can stop him.
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English
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In 985 A.D. the life of a Viking thrall in newly settled Greenland is harsh and unforgiving. Katla, a proud, beautiful slave girl, is ostracized because of her arrogant ways and the mystical rosary beads she wears. She survives a violent rape only through the compassion of Thorbjorg, a pagan seeress and shaman. But Katla's mure daughter--concieved during the rape and reared by Torbjorg to be a shaman--maliciously exploits the pagan teachings to exact...
19) Valhalla
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In remote Greenland, ex-Air Force General Steven Macaulay helps lead an expedition to recover a lost World War II plane. Encased in ice below is an astonishing find: a perfectly-preserved Viking ship, buried for a thousand years. Assembling Viking scholars, Macaulay tasks Lexy Vaughan to translate the ship's markings--then her colleagues are murdered. Lexy and Macaulay are hunted by a secret cult that will go to the end of the earth to hatch an ancient...
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