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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
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It's 1922, and The Great War is over. With the world at peace, Amelia and her family return to the Valley of the Kings to explore its storied sands. But they are quickly troubled by treacherous secrets and murder. A woman presents them with a priceless but dangerous artifact--a golden king said to bring death to all who possess it. The woman's husband has already fallen, and now she needs help to return the relics to its tomb.
2) Tomb raider
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Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she discovers the island where her father disappeared.
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A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence.
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"Detective Conk Adams is haunted by past military experiences and his role as guardian for his mother who is hospitalized on life-support. Conk teams up with a young archaeologist, Catherine, who is hiding a critical condition that haunts her as well. The unlikely pair soon develop a bond as they attempt to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumored to have curative powers." --Container.
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Site unseen (2017): "Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding is trying to unearth evidence of a seventeenth century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years. But the dead body that accompanies it has embroiled Emma and her students in a different kind of exploration"--Container.
Past malice (2018): "When archaeologist Emma Fielding is recruited to aid in a groundbreaking...
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Gertrude Bell is sometimes called the female Lawrence of Arabia. Bell was an explorer, spy, archaeologist, and diplomat who helped shape the Middle East after World War I. Advisor to Winston Churchill and critic of colonial policies in Iraq, Bell was considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. The film takes viewers into a past that is eerily current.
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