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Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with...
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2021.
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"Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed "The Lost Village," since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left--a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn--have plagued her. She's gathered a small crew of...
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"A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history--and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the...
8) Alone
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated...
9) Lost lands
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[2020]
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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This title focuses on lost lands and gives information related to their origins, theories, and place in popular culture. It offers photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index.
12) In a dry season
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2009
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New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson delivers an unforgettable, compelling thriller of a lost village and the deadly secrets that are unearthed upon its discovery—secrets that include murder.
In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservoir have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom—ruins that house the unidentified bones of
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[2008]
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Sodor Day is coming and all the engines are busy preparing. When Thomas gets lost in the mountains, he discovers the old town of Great Waterton. Soon, the whole island is buzzing with the news of Thomas' discovery and they try to restore the town in time for Sodor Day. Join the fun and meet a new engine friend named Stanley!
16) Lost cities
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c2013
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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This book describes eleven lost cities, discussing Atlantis; Lubaantun, Belize; Craco, Italy; Dunwich, England; Kolmanskop, Namibia; Pripyat, Ukraine; Troy, Present-Day Turkey; Hashima Island, Japan; San Zhi, Taiwan; Nan Madol, Micronesia; and Old Adaminaby, Australia.
17) Scrapper
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[2015]
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Detroit had descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in part of the city known as 'the zone', an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he came to steal: a kidnapped boy, crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly avenges the boy's unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a...
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