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3) Temple
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious Inca idol becomes the focus of an international treasure hunt, and a young linguist is caught up in the conspiracy when he is hired to translate a centuries-old manuscript that holds the key to the idol's location.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
In the first book of C.S. Lewis's legendary science fiction trilogy, Dr. Ransom is kidnapped and spirited by spaceship to the mysterious red planet of Malandra. He escapes and goes on the run, jeopardizing both his chances of ever returning to Earth and his very life. First published in 1943, this classic interplanetary fantasy continues to delight readers around the world. Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The final book in C.S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom. The dark forces that were repulsed in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra are massed for an assault on the planet Earth itself. Word is on the wind that the mighty wizard Merlin has come back to the land of the living after many centuries, holding the key to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Includes interviews with people who hold such varied careers as tour consultant, literary agent, international lawyer, and foreign language textbook editor, describing what they do, how they got started, and the necessary preparation for each job.
9) Lexicon
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Emily Ruff belongs to a secretive, influential organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love with Wil Jamieson who holds the key to a secret war between rival factions of "poets." In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, as the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When the ancient ruins of Atlantis are discovered along the Spanish coast, linguist and archaeologist Thomas Lourds joins a violent competition to be the first of its explorers, an effort marked by a series of puzzles that must be solved in order to gainentry into the lost civilization.
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Refugee, criminal, and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can't refuse: life in prison, 'voluntary' military service--or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it's destroyed in a supernova... In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days and the terrible secret...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When a renowned linguist who teaches men how to communicate with women is publically humiliated by her own straying husband, she fights back by trying to soften the man who made the cover of Fortune magazine's "America's Toughest Bosses" issue.