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  Jean Wilson Sidar

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  Book, Rutgers University Press, 1976

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  Rutgers University · Biography · Agriculturists · Geologists · Sidar, Jean Wilson

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  • Collingswood NJ Reference
    RNJ 630.924 Sid (AVAILABLE)

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  by Jack Du Brul

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  Book, First Printing, Dutton Adult, 2006

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  Once back in the states, Mercers detective work leads him to the long-lost safe and the cryptic letter inside: Dear Albert, I believe I have succeeded. This letter launches Mercer on the most spectacular adventure of his career, one that will leave a nation in flames and a city in ruin, and reveal the truth behind three thousand years of legend.

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  Geologists · Fiction · Terrorists · Adventure stories · Du Brul, Jack B

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  • Collingswood Adult Fict
    Fic Du B (AVAILABLE)

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  by Simon Winchester; illustrations by Soun Vannithone

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  Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins, 2001

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  He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell — clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world — making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth.

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  Geology, Stratigraphic · History · Geologists · Biography · Winchester, Simon

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  • Collingswood Adult NonFic
    550.92 Win (AVAILABLE)

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  Barry Unsworth

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  Book, First Edition/ First Printing, Nan A. Talese, 2009

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  Barry Unsworth, a writer with an almost magical capacity for literary time travel (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and make it relevant to contemporary readers. In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.Somerville, a British archaeologist, is excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace.

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  Archaeologists · Fiction · British · Geologists · Americans · Excavations (Archaeology) · Petroleum · Prospecting · Petroleum industry and trade · History · Foreign relations · Historical fiction · Unsworth, Barry, 1930

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  • Collingswood Adult Fict
    Fic Uns (AVAILABLE)

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  Tim Parks

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  Book, 1st Grove Press ed., 1st ed, Grove Press, 1994

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  Peter Nicholson, a geologist sent to a Mediterranean island, is pulled by the demands of his wife, his mistress, his employers, and unpredictable strangers when he stumbles into a web of blackmail, deception, and murder. 15,000 first printing.

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  Detective and mystery stories · Psychological fiction · Geologists · Fiction · Adultery · Parks, Tim

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  • Collingswood Adult Fict
    Fic Par (AVAILABLE)

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  Jack Du Brul

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  Book, Onyx, 2003

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  Geologist-adventurer Philip Mercer finds himself drilling straight into the epicenter of an age-old conspiracy when a reclusive order of Himalayan monks predicts the end of the world-and sets a thermonuclear bomb in an underwater volcano to ensure that it comes to pass…

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  Mercer, Philip (Fictitious character) · Fiction · Geologists · Du Brul, Jack B

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  • Collingswood Adult Paperb
    PAP Fic Du B (AVAILABLE)

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  Walt Disney Pictures presents in association with Spyglass Entertainment a Mandeville Films production, a film by Frank Marshall; produced by David Hoberman, Patrick Crowley; screenplay by David DiGilio; directed by Frank Marshall

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  Book, Widescreen ed, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 2006

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  Sled dogs · Drama · Geologists · Mushers · Survival skills · Perros · Teatro · Geólogos · DVD-Video discs · Feature films · Action and adventure films · Films for the hearing impaired · Marshall, Frank · Walker, Paul, 1973 · Greenwood, Bruce, 1956 · Bloodgood, Moon · Biggs, Jason, 1978 · Burgess, Don · Isham, Mark · Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm) · Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

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