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Scavenger
David Morrell’s Creepers was a publishing event in 2005, a powerful, edgy, dark thriller by a master of the genre. A New York Times bestseller, it won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award and earned numerous critical raves. Scavenger, Morrell’s latest novel, takes us in a harrowing new direction-a desperate high-tech scavenger hunt for a 100-year-old time capsule. Frank Balenger, the resolute but damaged hero of Creepers, now finds himself trapped in a nightmarish game of fear and death. To save himself and the woman he loves, he must play by the rules of a god-like Game Master with an obsession for unearthing the past. But sometimes the past is buried for a reason. Scavenger is a brilliant and frightening hunter-hunted tale that layers modern technology over the dusty artifacts of earlier times. The result is a surreal palimpsest, one that contains the secret of survival for Balenger and a handful of unwilling players who race against the game’s clock to solve the puzzle of the time capsule, only to discover that time is the true scavenger. Morrell’s trademark action sequences are embedded with fascinating historical clues that make Scavenger a thrill-a-minute page-turner as well as a mesmerizing literary experience. .
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Trading in Memories: Travels Through a Scavenger's Favorite Places
There are books and then there are extraordinary portals to the imagination Vancouver author, book designer, and globe-trotting packrat Barbara Hodgson crafts the latter. Whether writing fiction ( The Tattooed Map, The Sensualist), non-fiction ( The Rat: A Perverse Miscellany) or angular travel journals ( Italy Out of Hand), Hodgson drops readers into palpable netherworlds with exquisite storytelling and accompanying images. Imagine that--books with pictures for grown-ups! It may be a simple formula, but it's Hodgson's and it works like a charm every time. Trading in Memories, Hodgson's diary of her journeys through the flea markets of Europe, North Africa and North America and presented scrapbook-like with snapshots of her amazing finds, is a revelation that guides readers down back alleys and into musty shops. In each, we flank Hodgson as she gently fingers trinkets and seashells, sifts through distressed maps, stacks and unstacks slides and expired passports, all the while conversationally remarking on what this detritus represents--or could represent, given the right context and a bit of back story. Of course, the people we meet through Hodgson's travels (some living, some dead) add yet another remarkable layer to these richly detailed vignettes. Like Hodgson, we can only step back and marvel at those who have tiptoed through history, scattering biographical fragments here and there before retreating to destinations where sepia-toned photographs, house deeds and wooden boxes are unnecessary. Thanks to Hodgson, the departed can rest easy knowing their worldly goods, however meager or displaced, have at last found a warm and loving home. --Kim Hughes.
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Shadow (Scavenger Trilogy, Book 1)
K.J. Parker received critical acclaim for his Fencer Trilogy, and Shadow is the first book in the Scavenger Trilogy—a series that takes fantasy fiction into remarkable new territory A man wakes in the wilderness, amid scattered corpses and inquisitive crows. He has no memory of who he is or how he came to be there. The only clues to his former existence lie in his apparent skill with a sword and the fragmented dreams that permeate his sleep. .
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T. Rex: Hunter or Scavenger?: Jurassic Park Institute (Step into Reading)
Was Tyrannosaurus rex a speedy and savage hunter, or was it a slow-moving scavenger, surviving on scraps left from other dinosaurs’ kills? World renowned tyrannosaur expert Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., shares the evidence on both sides of the argument in this easy-to-read, easy-to-understand Step into Reading book that young dinosaur enthusiasts will heartily devour..
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Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine, The
A hybrid of memoir, cookbook, and travelogue, and a love song to hunting and fishing and the American wild, The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine is about one man's quest to live off the land and recreate the recipes from Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire, the 1903 magnum opus.Nature writer Steven Rinella embarks on a yearlong journey across America, trying to locate the bizarre, often esoteric ingredient of Le Guide Culinaire. His adventures take him fishing for stingrays on a Florida beach; skinning eels with an upstate New Yorker who keeps an emu as company; and hunting mountain goats on the snow-covered cliffs of Alaska's Chugach Range.Praised by reviewers for its lyrical prose and humor, The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine is a narrative that opens up a deeper understanding of the things we eat and our place in the natural world..
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Dora the Explorer Scavenger Hunt Look and Find
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Memory (Scavenger Trilogy, Book 3)
Returning to his childhood home was supposed to bring peace for Poldarn But it was not to be. The island proved no sanctuary from the ghosts of his past, or from the demons that stalk his dreams. Instead, he has unearthed yet more lies, betrayals, and enemies from his former life. But with each fresh discovery, Poldarn is coming ever closer to the reality of his shadowy origins. One by one, the fragmented memories and obscure clues are falling into place, forming a truth he cannot escape, a past he cannot deny, and a history that may be more than he—or anyone else—can bear. This is the brilliant conclusion of K.J. Parker’s compelling Scavenger Trilogy..
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Newspaper Scavenger Hunts
For a break in classroom routines, have students hunt through newspapers for answers to fun activities related to all areas of the curriculum..
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Pattern (Scavenger Trilogy)
K.J. Parker's Shadow began a ground-breaking new series that takes fantasy into remarkable new territory. Now, with Pattern, the extraordinary story of Poldarn takes a new shape. In a world he does not know, Poldarn's future is uncertain. Pursued by invisible enemies and haunted by the demons of his past, nobody can be trusted—not even himself, it seems. Attempting to piece together his own life from whatever scattered fragments he can find and dreams that hide as much as they reveal has brought him nothing but trouble. Now all he craves is peace. But will he find it on the island he believes to be his childhood home? Or will this place hold more terrors for him to confront? .
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