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"Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern...
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"Jules Verne's pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures...
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 2
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Geologist Emily Hansen, a lowly mud-logger in the oilfields, is hired by an oil company in Denver for an office job and gets her first taste of corporate life, which includes two suicides in the space of a few days. That's if they were suicides. Emily decides to find out. By the author of Tensleep.
6) Earth colors
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 9
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Unemployed professional geologist and sometime FBI consultant, Em Hansen desperately needs work. So when her best friend Faye tells her that she knows someone who could use Em's expertise as a geologist to authenticate a painting, she jumps at the prospect. The painting is by the famous painter of the American West, Frederic Remington, and Em's client has had it in his family for years. But he believes it's a fake and wants Em to use her forensic...
7) Killer dust
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 8
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Reassessing her life after two failed relationships, forensic geologist Em Hansen learns that elusive boyfriend Jack Sampler is investigating a deadly cloud of dust moving into Florida that may be the work of sinister forces.
8) Fault line
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 7
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When Salt Lake City is hit with a major earthquake on the eve of the Winter Olympics, Em Hansen is sent in by the FBI to investigate the murder of a state-employed geologist just hours after the disaster.
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 6
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Forensic geologist Emily Hansen helps the FBI investigate a crime that involves murder, endangered species, and the leasing of federal land in Nevada to a billion-dollar gold mining operation.
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"A fascinating mix of medicine, geology, and personal struggle as a young woman physician seeks to remake herself, working at a clinic on the edge of the Grand Canyon. Well-paced and full of unexpected twists and charms, this novel celebrates science, our natural world, and the true depth of relationships."
13) The rift
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As corporate greed is pitted against supernatural forces, two young friends must try to protect the precious Old Herd--and their island itself. For generations, the rangers of Black Water Island have guarded the Old Herd against the horrors released by the Rift. And Cal West, an apprentice ranger, fights daily to prove he belongs within their ranks. But even greater challenges await with the return of his childhood friend Meg Archer and the onset...
14) Edge
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A massive earthquake that thrusts California into the sea is just the beginning of the horrors that unfold as quantum physics' instability rears its head.
15) Japan sinks
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"After dropping anchor for the night near a small island to the south of Japan, a crew of fishermen awaken to find that the island has vanished without a trace. An investigating scientist theorizes that the tiny island has succumbed to the same force that divided the Japanese archipelago from the mainland and that the disastrous shifting of a fault in the Japan Trench has placed the entire country in danger of being swallowed by the sea. Based on...
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Raleigh Harmon novel volume 7
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On a scenic riverbank outside Seattle, forensic geologist Raleigh Harmon accidentally digs up evidence linked to the local FBI's most famous unsolved mystery, D.B. Cooper's 1971 hijacking of a passenger airplane, before he disappeared without a trace. When the Bureau hires Raleigh to help solve the legendary cold case, she's forced to juggle two urgent assignments, she's already working with the state crime lab to identify geological material linked...
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