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005    20220826111950.0 
008    211206s2021    tnu           000 1 eng   
010      2021059020 
019    1287750057 
020    9781400237968|q(paperback) 
020    1400237963|q(paperback) 
035    (OCoLC)1287748436|z(OCoLC)1287750057 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dJCX|dUAH 
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049    CKEA 
050 00 PR9619.4.C659|bF67 2021 
082 00 823/.92|223 
100 1  Cooper, Tea,|eauthor. 
245 14 The fossil hunter /|cTea Cooper. 
250    First Australian Paperback Edition. 
264  1 [Nashville] :|bHarper Muse,|c2021. 
300    382 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "From USA TODAY bestselling author Tea Cooper comes the 
       story of how a fossil discovered at London's Natural 
       History Museum leads one woman back in time to nineteenth-
       century Australia and a world of scientific discovery and 
       buried secrets"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "Buried secrets. An ancient fossil. And one woman's 
       determination to unravel a nineteenth century 
       mystery.Australia, 1847. The last thing Mellie Vale 
       remembers before the fever takes her is sprinting through 
       the bush, a monster at her heels--but no one believes her.
       In a bid to curb Mellie's overactive imagination, her 
       benefactors send her to visit a family friend, Anthea 
       Winstanley. Anthea is an amateur paleontologist convinced 
       she will one day find proof that great sea dragons swam in
       the vast inland sea that millions of years ago covered her
       property. Mellie is instantly swept up in the dream.1919. 
       When Penelope Jane Martindale arrives home from the 
       battlefields of World War I with the intention of making 
       peace with her father and commemorating the death of her 
       two younger brothers in the trenches, her reception is 
       disappointing. Desperate for a distraction, she finds a 
       connection between a fossil at London's Natural History 
       Museum and her brothers' favorite camping spot and the 
       last place they were seen before falsifying their ages to 
       join the army. But the gorge has a sinister reputation: 
       seventy years ago, six women disappeared from there. So 
       when P. J. uncovers some unexpected remains, it seems as 
       if the past is reaching into the present. She's determined
       to find answers about what happened all those years ago . 
       . . and perhaps also some closure to the loss of her 
       brothers"--|cProvided by publisher. 
630 00 Mythical creatures|vFiction. 
630 00 World War I|vFiction. 
650  0 Death|vFiction. 
650  0 Fossils|vFiction. 
650  0 Missing persons|vFiction. 
650  0 Paleontologists|vFiction. 
650  0 Secrecy|vFiction. 
650  7 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical.|2bisacsh 
650  7 FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century.|2bisacsh 
655  7 Romance fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aCooper, Tea, 1951-|tFossil hunter
       |bFirst Australian Paperback Edition|d[Nashville] : Harper
       Muse, 2021|z9781400237975|w(DLC)  2021059021 
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