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Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson ; with a new introduction by Patrick Scott. by Stevenson, Robert Louis,1850-1894.; Scott, Patrick.;
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]- 204).
Subjects: Adventure stories.; Buried treasure; Pirates;
© 2008., Signet Classics,
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Holes / by Sachar, Louis,1954-;
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.Newbery Medal, 1999.Young Adult.Accelerated ReaderReading Counts!660
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency; Homeless persons; Friendship; Treasure troves; Juvenile delinquency; Homeless persons; Friendship; Buried treasure;
© 2000, ©1998., Yearling,
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That old black magic [videorecording]. by CBC Home Video (Firm); Morningstar Entertainment Inc.;
DVD.Narrator, Oliver Jones ; adapted from the original CBC production entitled: Buried Treasures.Features the stories and performances of ten black artists who triumphed in spite of segregation, prejudice, and racial taboos. The performances were first seen on CBC Television in the 1950s and 1960s.
Subjects: Music videos.; African American singers.; African American musicians.; African Americans on television.; Popular music; Jazz; Jazz vocals.;
© c2002., CBC Home Video : Distributed by Morningstar Entertainment Inc.,
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Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo [videorecording] / by Birnbaum, Roger.; Barber, Gary.; Glickman, Jonathan.; Wolpert, Jay.; Reynolds, Kevin,1952-; Caviezel, Jim,1968-; Pearce, Guy,1967-; Harris, Richard,1930-2002.; Frain, James.; Dominczyk, Dagmara,1976-; Wincott, Michael,1959-; Guzmán, Luis,1957-; Dunn, Andrew.; Semel, Stephen.; Womack, Chris(Film editor); Shearmur, Edward.; Rand, Tom.; Geraghty, Mark.; Dumas, Alexandre,1802-1870.Comte de Monte-Cristo.English.; Spyglass Entertainment (Firm); Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm); Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm);
DVD, 5.1 Dolby digital.Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, James Frain, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michael Wincott, Luis Guzman.Director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editors, Stephen Semel, Chris Womack ; music, Edward Shearmur ; costume designer, Tom Rand ; production designer, Mark Geraghty.MPAA rating: PG-13.An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; False imprisonment; Escapes; Treasure troves;
© [2002], Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment,
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The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd / by Geanacopoulos, Daphne Palmer,author.;
The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of Piracy. Captain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl the seas. But few know that Kidd had an accomplice, a behind-the-scenes payer who enabled his plundering and helped him outpaced his enemies. That accomplice was his wife, Sarah Kidd, a well-to-do woman whose extraordinary life is a lesson in reinvention and resourcefulness. Twice widowed by twenty-one and operating within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York, Sarah secretly aided and abetted her husband, fighting alongside him against his accusers. More remarkable still was that Sarah not only survived the tragedy wrought by her infamous husband's deeds, but went on to live a successful and productive life as one of New York's most prominent citizens. Marshaling in newly discovered primary-source documents from archives in London, New York and Boston, historian and journalist Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos reconstructs the extraordinary life of Sarah Kidd, uncovering a rare example of the kind of life that pirate wives lived during the Golden Age of Piracy. A compelling tale of love, treasure, motherhood and survival, this landmark work of narrative nonfiction weaves together the personal and the epic in a sweeping historical story of romance and adventure. --Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Kidd, Sarah, -1744.; Kidd, William, -1701.; Pirates; Women;
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Treasure Island / [electronic resource]. by Stevenson, Robert Louis.; Hunt, Neil.;
Narrator: Neil Hunt.If you happen to find a map in a dead buccaneer's sea trunk, you can't very well ignore it, not if you are Jim Hawkins and his friends Dr. Livesey, Captain Smollett and Squire Trelawney! But even with a map, buried treasures are not easy things to come by. At the start of his grand adventure, setting sail on the good ship Hispaniola, the young Hawkins is a hesitant, querulous boy, too easily beguiled by his own fancy. By journey's end he will have faced murder, mutiny, and mayhem -- and in the process, become a man.Text Difficulty 6 - Text Difficulty 91070Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 189823 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Classic Literature.;
© 2009., Recorded Books Inc.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=450678 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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How I became a pirate / by Long, Melinda.; Shannon, David,1959-ill.;
Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life. When Braid Beard's pirate crew invites Jeremy Jacob to join their voyage, he jumps right on board. Buried treasure, sea chanteys, pirate talk--who wouldn't go along? Soon Jeremy Jacob knows all about being a pirate. He throws his food across the table and his manners to the wind. He hollers like thunder and laughs off bedtime. It's the heave-ho, blow-the-man-down, very best time of his life. Until he finds out what pirates don't do--no reading bedtime stories, no tucking kids in. ... Maybe being a pirate isn't so great after all. Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator David Shannon teams up with witty storyteller Melinda Long for a hilarious look at the finer points of pirate life.Summary : Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and learns about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.
Subjects: Picture books for children.; Pirates; Pirates;
© 2003., Harcourt,
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Summer of the dragon / by Peters, Elizabeth,1927-2013.;
A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent on a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbot to turn down. What does it matter that her new employer, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of off-beat projects, from alien conspiracy studies to a hunt for dragon bones? There's even talk of treasure buried in the nearby mountains, but D.J. isn't going to allow loose speculation, or the considerable charms of handsome professional treasure hunter, Jesse Franklin, to sidetrack her. Until Hunnicutt suffers a mysterious accident and then vanishes, leaving the weirdos gathered at his spread to eye each other with frightened suspicion. But on the high desert search for the missing millionaire, D.J. is learning things that may not be healthy for her to know. For the game someone is playing here goes far beyond the rational universe, and it could leave D.J. legitimately dead.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Women anthropologists; Missing persons;
© 2012., HarperCollins
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The lost tomb : [electronic resource] : And other real-life stories of bones, burials, and murder. by Preston, Douglas.; Collyer, Will.;
Narrator: Will Collyer.What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, broke the story of an extraordinary mass grave of animals killed by the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, and explored what lay hidden in the booby-trapped Money Pit on Oak Island. When he hasn't been co-authoring bestselling thrillers featuring FBI Agent Pendergast, Preston has been writing about some of the world's strangest and most dramatic mysteries. The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; History.; Sociology.; True Crime.;
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=9215598 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The brutal telling [sound recording] / by Penny, Louise.; Cosham, Ralph.nrt; Blackstone Audiobooks.;
Read by Ralph Cosham.A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets long buried--but not forgotten.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character); Police; Villages; Audiobooks.;
© p2009, Blackstone Audio, Inc.,
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