The Relic Hunters
10 best books like The Relic Hunters (Derek Benz): The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Keys to the Kingdom, Brave New World Revisited, Peter and the Sword of Mercy, Crown of Shadows, Head Games, Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, Animorphs, Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire, The Mayflower Project
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
| Author | Simon Singh |
| ISBN | 0385495323 |
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1600108865 |
Re-read 2015
So thanks to my pal, Dan 2.0, I've had the chance not only to finally get my hands on the volumes of this series that I haven't been able to read, but also to do a re-read of the first four that I did manage to get my paws on back in the day.
I had forgotten how good these suckers were!
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Brave New World Revisited
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060898526 |
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the...
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1423309758 |
The year is 1902 - it's been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Since then, nobody on the island has grown a day older, and the Lost Boys continue their friendship with the Mollusk tribe, and their rivalry with Captain Hook. Meanwhile in London, Molly has married George...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1600106951 |
The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series, Locke & Key! Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1600104835 |
Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack's dark secret.
Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle...
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
| Author | Rick Riordan |
| ISBN | 1423183657 |
Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from...
| Author | K.A. Applegate |
| ISBN | 0590112058 |
Animorphs "RM" is an exciting series for young adult readers about five teens who are given the power to "morph" into any animal they touch and then to absorb its DNA. This power is granted them by a dying Andalite alien named Elfangor, who also warns the teens that Earth is being threatened secretly by...
| Author | Andy Lane |
| ISBN | 0426204158 |
‘I’ve been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I’ve ever seen.’
England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 0590879979 |
Official Summary:
The end of the world. Not something most people think about. Not something we even expect to ever really happen. But what if you found out an asteroid the size of New Jersey were about to collide with the earth? What would you do? It's the year 2011, and that's the question Jobs is asking...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 0590880748 |
When the world ended, there was the Eighty. Eighty people given the chance for survival. Given the chance to board a revamped space shuttle programmed to find them a new place to live. Somewhere to start over after an asteroid had destroyed the entire human race. Now, after a five-hundred-year "nap,"...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 0590880780 |
It is time to confront a strange new reality. Of the eighty people chosen to escape earth's final destruction, only a handful remain. They're all that's left of the human race. They've traveled 500 years into the future, and about as far as possible from the life they once knew. Now, marooned on a strange...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1613772270 |
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! After the gruesome murder of their...
