The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

Bored, Little Monkey sets out to find adventure in the jungle and meets nine different kinds of monkeys who teach him fun new things, but not how to get home. Includes facts about the New World Monkeys featured.

Ages 4 to 8 years. When Eric's monkey goes missing on the way to school, his class tries to figure out where the monkey could be. Did he go to the movies? Is he visiting friends at the zoo? Is he climbing the Empire State Building? Will Eric ever see his beloved monkey again? Monkey Lost is a Curious George for the 21st century!

A girl with a thirst for adventure. A hidden room. A mystery waiting to be solved. Nina can’t resist the pull of an adventure when she feels it and when her Uncle Bill discovers a hidden room in a forgotten corner of his bookshop she knows she has to investigate. As she leads her best friend Ivy and a bespectacled boy named Oswald through the door they are instantly transported to a tent backstage at Cornelius’ Circus Spectacular. All is not well and they are soon caught up in a mystery the likes of which they had never dreamed… The Mystery of the Missing Monkey. With the show‘s grand finale at risk the three friends can’t walk away. They must find a way to solve the disappearance before it’s too late… and hope there is a way to get home. The Mystery of the Missing Monkey is the first book in the Lost Bookshop series of stand-alone chapter books that feature a young, curious and adventure seeking cast. If your children like magical adventures that capture their imagination, they will love their time in the Lost Bookshop. Pick up The Mystery of the Missing Monkey and start your children on their next favorite book today.