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"For decades, people have asked the question: Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? But just who is this infamous and elusive globe-trotting thief? In this novelization, based on the Netflix animated series, Carmen shares her own backstory for the first time ever. Now, it's time to find out.... Who in the world is Carmen Sandiego"-- Carmen Sandiego, the world's foremost thief, goes on a mysterious mission where ACME and Interpol is close on her...

Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

An expedition by sea to the Arctic in 1885 to search for the explorer, John Franklin. The protagonists are two men from Philadelphia, the dynamic but foolhardy organizer and his companion, a naturalist who considers himself a loser. The loser lives, the dynamo dies. By the author of Ship Fever.

Thirty years after a night drinking rum with Ethan Allen leaves him with a copper plate screwed into his head, Private True Teague Kinneson -- Vermont schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer -- sets out with his young nephew Ticonderoga to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific Ocean. Along the way, True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his lusty six-foot-two-inch spinster daughter, fight and trick an army of Spaniards and...

Far from altering or omitting facts, The Gates of the Mountains raises them ro their highest imaginative power, The racing tale first spellbinds then kidnaps the reader, carrying his spirits away on the rush of real history. It is only when the great journey is done, the far shores of its dangerous voyage reached at last, that the reader understands the full gifts of the master storyteller at work with myth and history-- Book Jacket

"A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious...

Children describe the gifts that they have received from relatives around the world.

Determined to map the uncharted miles between the Mississippi and the Pacific, Meriwether Lewis is frustrated by his duties as secretary to president Thomas Jefferson and teams up with friend William Clark on a dangerous journey.

Based on the lives of the Clark family who fought for our nation's independence and explored, conquered and settled the continent. this book recreates the famed Lewis and Clark expedition.

"'Both gritty and sublime' (Chicago Tribune), The Last Canyon tells the story of John Wesley Powell's 1869 voyage of exploration through the Grand Canyon, the last great expedition of discovery in United States history. In this vivid novel, John Vernon intertwines two stories - that of Powell and his crew and that of a band of Paiute Indians, known as the Shivwits, who lived on the north rim of the canyon. As the novel moves inexorably toward a violent...