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English
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Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is once again thrown into a deadly game of intrigue when she receives a cryptic package containing a skull and a two-sided mirror. Eve is determined to reconstruct the skull and uncover the mystery of the person's identity, and when she does, the face of a beautiful woman begins to emerge. But who is this?
Author
Series
Eve Duncan volume 1
Language
English
Description
When wealthy businessman John Logan offers her a seemingly routine job of recreating the face of an unknown murder victim from a skull, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan suddenly finds herself the target of ruthless and powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from being revealed
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English
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"Iris Johansen's third book in her latest explosive trilogy starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes readers on a high-energy adventure with Eve fighting to overcome the odds. Protecting Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead leads Eve to be their target. It will take everything she has to rescue Cara, and doing so will put that which is dearest to her at risk. Night and Day is the pulse-pounding race to a conclusion that will have readers...
5) The criminal
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1903
Edition
3rd ed., rev., enlarged
Language
English
Description
The contemporary science series. With 30 illustrations.
Author
Series
Eve Duncan volume 28
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a myth, Helen had been a living, breathing queen who inspired Homer to write The Iliad. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has the unusual skills needed to recreate the face that launched a thousand ships-revealing...
7) The bullet
Author
Series
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 27
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After being divorced from Joe Quinn for many years, Diane Connors abruptly returns to disrupt his life by begging his current wife, Eve Duncan, to do her a favor. Diane is on the run with a secret that will not only put Eve in danger but make her choose between protecting her family and doing what is right. Diane is not Eve's favorite person. But years of animosity must be cast aside because Diane is no longer the selfish woman that Eve once knew....
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Temperance Brennan novel volume 21
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-first novel of suspense featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases."--
Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First North American Edition.
Physical Desc
314 p.
Language
English
Description
In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on the basics of identifying human remains, plenty of insights into the fascinating processes of death, and a sober, compassionate understanding of its inescapable presence in our existence, all leavened with her wicked sense of humor.
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10) Mind game
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Scotland holds a treasure that Jane MacGuire has been hunting for years. But as she scours the highlands in search of it, she's plagued by dreams of a girl in danger--dreams she can't ignore no matter how hard she tries. Who is this girl, and what is she trying to tell Jane? And will Jane figure it out before it's too late--for her and the mysterious young woman?..Things are further complicated when Seth Caleb comes back into Jane's life. Their history...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
12) Sleep no more
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English
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Entreated by her mother to help find a missing woman who has escaped from a mental hospital, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked to discover the woman's true identity and enlists the help of rogue FBI profiler Kendra Michaels to survive a plot by a killer who is targeting her family.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
c1948
Edition
1st. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 311 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A major work about man's relation to society, Chase discusses whether the scientific method can be applied to human relations. He summarizes knowledge accumulated by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, political scientists, and other social scientists in this volume.
14) Bonnie
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When her beloved seven-year-old daughter disappears during a class trip, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan dedicates her talents to protecting other children and helping families to find closure while searching for her own daughter's killer.
15) Hunting Eve
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
A second installment in a new Eve Duncan story arc trilogy finds the stakes raised higher as the forensic sculptor battles her captor and discovers brutally dangerous truths about why she has been targeted.
Author
Pub. Date
c2022
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
80 p.
Language
English
Description
Known for their vicious raids, love of treasure, and fierce warriors, the Vikings where the most feared invaders of the medieval period. For 300 years they terrorized the world, but they also created beautiful art, told epic stories, and kept a well-ordered society. Packed with facts, maps, infographics, and photos, this is the perfect introduction to the Vikings.
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English
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"Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics. Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public's imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But forensic analysis has been practiced for thousands of years. Ancient Chinese detectives studied dead bodies for signs of foul...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies, the author investigates our connection with deer, from mythology to biology, offering a unique and intimate perfective on a very human relationship while inviting us to contemplate the paradoxes of how we interact with and shape the natural world.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story of the Dozier School, a Florida reform school shut down in 2011 due to reports of cruelty, abuse, and mysterious deaths, and the efforts of the author, a leading forensic anthropologist, to locate and exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families.