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    61 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2013
  • Latest Book:
    January 2016
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Full Series List in Order

Sam 'n Me Adventure Books

1 - The Monastery Treasure (Oct-2013)
2 - Superstition Mountains Treasure (Oct-2013)
3 - The Grand Terre Island Treasure (Nov-2013)
4 - Treasures of the Knights Templars (Oct-2013)
5 - The Treasures of Kublai Khan (Nov-2013)
6 - The Island of Monte Cristo Treasure (Nov-2013)
7 - The Treasure of Marco Polo (Nov-2013)
8 - Merlin's Treasure (Nov-2013)
9 - Montezuma and the Aztec Empire Treasures (Nov-2013)
10 - The Treasures of Bloody Sword (Nov-2013)
11 - Dealin with King Solomon's Mines (Nov-2013)
12 - Lookin Fer the Ark of the Covenant (Nov-2013)
13 - Dracula's Treasure (Nov-2013)
14 - The Ottoman Empire Treasures (Dec-2013)
15 - The Seven Caves of Chicomoztoc (Dec-2013)
16 - The Lost Treasures of the Great Pharaohs (Dec-2013)
17 - Lookin Fer El Dorado (Dec-2013)
18 - The Lost Treasure of El Pensamiento (Jan-2014)
19 - The Mystery of the Grand Canyon Ancients (Dec-2013)
20 - Finishin Off the Ottoman Empire Treasures (Dec-2013)
21 - The Lost Treasure of Atahualpa (Dec-2013)
22 - The Secret of Merlin's Shroud (Dec-2013)
23 - Finishin Off the Atahualpa Treasure (Dec-2013)
24 - More of Merlin's Powers (Jan-2014)
25 - The Secret City of Paititi (Jan-2014)
26 - Mephistopheles (Dec-2013)
27 - The Tomb of Genghis Khan (Jan-2014)
29 - Treasures of the Flor de La Mar (Feb-2014)
30 - Bringin Home Genghis Khan's Treasures (Jan-2014)
31 - The Powers of the Merlins (Jan-2014)
32 - Gettin the Jaguar People's Treasure (Jan-2014)
33 - Goin Back Fer Montezuma's Treasures (Jan-2014)
34 - Steppin Inta Unknown Territory (Feb-2014)
35 - The Adventure of the Xlins Ship's Log (Feb-2014)
36 - Unlockin the Mystery of Atlantis (Feb-2014)
37 - The Mystery of the Lemurian Tablets (Feb-2014)
38 - The Merlins 'n the Skulls of the Pedestal (Feb-2014)
39 - The Revengers (Feb-2014)
40 - The Wrath of the Revengers (Mar-2014)
41 - The Merlins 'n the Aswad Bahadur (Apr-2014)

Book List in Order: 61 titles



  • The Monastery Treasure is the first of a series of mystery adventures taken from the memories of Gramps as he tells the Sam 'n Me tales. Gramps tells the story using the lingo of the old west and creates images you swear will take you into the advent...



  • Are ya ready fer me 't spin ya another tale about Sam 'n Me? This time we're headin inta the Superstition Mountains followin the clues in that 2nd monastery record book we found hid in the 1st treasure. Even though Sam sent a dire warnin to that no g...



  • We're on the trail of another treasure that was hidden centuries ago. This time it's some treasures of the Knights Templar. They were Christian soldiers defendin the church and fightin in the name of it fer nearly 200 years. This was way back when th...



  • We're headin back to King Solomon's mines fer the treasures we left there several years ago. They weren't doin us, or anybody else, a bit of good sittin in the treasure chamber they were in. There were tons of treasures we had to find a way to move a...



  • Ever heard of Count Dracula? If ya haven't yer about to find out what an evil genius he was. I'm tellin ya right now I get shivers just thinkin about him and all the evil he did in Transylvania. I want ya to find a cross to wear around yer neck, and ...



  • This is our third adventure 'n we're diggin inta the secrets of the last monastery record book we found. I'm tellin ya, them monks was mighty clever at writin codes 'n such. Sam was stumped 'n workin his tail off till he ran across the key 't it all....



  • This treasure huntin stuff is full of thrills and chills and Gramps has a way of tellin them that fires the imagination. This time you're goin with him to Italy in search of a treasure Sam thinks is hidden on the island of Monte Cristo. Yep, it's tha...



  • We're goin to surprise ya this time, we're goin in search of the Ark of the Covenant. Its never been found and ya'd think with all the death and destruction legend says has happened to those who've searched fer it, it'd put the brakes on Sam but he's...



  • This is #8 in the adventure series and it takes ya inta King Arthur's fabled kingdom. What a kingdom it was, especially with Merlin doin what he did. Before we get there though yer goin to find out what happens to Uncle Timothy and Angus O'Day. What'...






  • This adventure takes us inta some strange places, yer goin to meet an Apache Holy Man who was the guardian of the treasure we was lookin fer. This one will keep ya in suspense as we try to figure out where them Aztec priests hid Montezuma's treasures...



  • This time we're in Venice tryin to track down a huge treasure Sam is sure Marco Polo, his father and uncle brought back with them from China. We're goin down one blind alley after another and it's takin us inta some unexpected places. Big Mike is sti...



  • Ever been to Queenscliff, Australia? That's where were headed this time around. Were after the treasures of Bloody Sword, one of the most vicious pirate captains to ever sail the southern seas. His 1st Mate Smiley is even worse. I'll set yer imaginat...



  • Ever heard of Xanadu? Well I hadn't either but there was somethin waitin there fer us that was one of the wonders of the world. There was a Mongol war lord named Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan. He became the ruler of all of China and ya kn...



  • We're headed back to get the rest of the Atahualpa treasures. We thought we had the headhunters that helped us last time ready to help us agin and got the surprise of our lives. Not only wasn't they goin to help us, I thought the young headhunters wa...



  • We left some of the Ottoman Empire treasures behind when we were on Mediterranean Sea lookin for them the first time. We're goin back to see if we can find them. We lost a soldier the first time so we prepared ourselves with the best firepower availa...



  • El Dorado, "The city of gold". That's what legends say about it. Ya know what somethin like that does to treasure hunters don't ya? Sam was diggin up everthin there was to know about it because he was determined to find it even though 100's had tried...



  • We're after Inca treasures and they're hidden somewhere in the Llanganatis Mountains in Ecuador. There were enough of them to fill a good sized room to a depth of 12'. That's a lot of loot. The man that hid them was mighty clever and we had an awful ...



  • Jeffrey, Sam's assistant in our treasure huntin offices in Santa Fe, dug up some very interestin stuff on Pharaoh Harihor who was a high priest before he became pharaoh. That put him in a unique situation regardin the tombs and treasures of every pha...



  • When we got back from Brazil we found Luke Mephistopheles, the attorney who'd defended Uncle Timothy and Angus O'Day in their murder trial in Boston, was busy tryin to track them and the gang they belonged to down. The whole bunch had been missin for...






  • We're headed to the bottom of the biggest hole in in North America, the Grand Canyon. Sam's uncovered information about an ancient civilization that lived there 1,000's of years ago. He let's stuff like that get him all fired up so we're headed there...



  • Are ya ready fer some adventures on the Mediterranean Sea? That's where we're headed. An infamous pirate named Barbarossa got in cahoots with a ruler name Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and they hid treasures of magnificent proportions. It took some...



  • In an earlier adventure we found Merlin's treasure and while we was away findin the Atahualpa treasure, Sir Thomas Mitchell in Camelot sent a telegram to our headquarters sayin he discovered what he was callin Merlin's Cavern. In it he found a book o...



  • We're headed inta the heart of Mexico to look fer the seven caves of Chicomoztoc. Legend says they're the caves of origin for five indigenous cultures livin in the area and it'd mean the world to them if we could find them. The caves of origin contai...



  • Sam 'n me, Big Mike, Marie and John are headed back to get Genghis Khan's treasures out to where they'd do some good fer a lot of folks needin help. They sure weren't doin anybody any good sittin in that tomb of his. There were treasures from seventy...



  • Have ya ever thought about immortality? We were thinkin about it because from all we could figure out, we had it. Not only that, Merlin gave us portals last time we were in the cavern that allowed us to enter other dimensions. We were tryin to figure...



  • When we finished our "Montezuma and the Aztec Empire Treasures" adventure some years back, we thought the treasures were lost forever. Now we had our Merlin's powers, we figured we could maybe get them after all. Before we set out to do that though w...



  • The El Pensamiento was a ship loaded with a treasure belonging to Sir Francis Mollinson of Scotland. It was a hoard of Viking treasures he'd discovered that'd made him a very rich man. He was afraid bank robbers were going to steal his treasure so he...



  • Sam 'n me were fascinated with the mystical powers we'd found in Merlin's Cavern and were anxious to find out whether there was more we could learn about them. Big Mike was wantin to see if that Book of Magic might reveal somethin to him too. We're h...



  • Sam 'n me, Big Mike, Marie and John have had mystical powers granted to us by Merlin and we figured it's time to get some things figured out regardin them. We're in fer some real surprises when we get back to Merlin's cavern to see what we can learn....






  • We're headed inta cannibal country agin. The Jaguar People was said to be the worst cannibals on earth and we had to go through their territory to get to where we was goin. They was guardians of Paititi and had never let anyone get even close to wher...



  • We're headed back to China and into Mongolia. This time we're lookin for the tomb of Genghis Khan. We'd discovered how wealthy Kublai Khan was but it turns out he was small fry compared to what we discovered his grandfather had hidden. The Great Khan...



  • Ever wondered what it was like to travel to another planet? We had no idea whether we could do it or not but got the crazy notion to try. It all came about because of the ship's log Avatar, the commander of an extraterrestrial space ship gave us. We ...



  • We were searchin fer the meanin of our powers. We had a slug of them now and wondered why we were gettin them. We liked them, but knew there had to be a reason we were the ones gettin them. We felt we were bein summoned to Merlin's cavern, and when w...



  • Sam's research inta the Xlin ship's logs turned up somethin surprisin. Zeus had found ancient golden tablets sayin there were giants here on Earth. That got us all curious wonderin what that was about, especially since the tables were 14,000 years ol...



  • Ever heard of the Fiery Dragon? It was a pirate ship commanded by Billy One-Hand who was one of Captain Kidd's captains. Legend says it and Captain Kidd's ship the Adventure Galley were sunk near Ile Ste. Marie, a corral ringed island off the coast o...



  • I'm in a heap of trouble. In our last adventure Uncle Timothy, and the 7 other miscreants we thought we were rid of escaped the prison we stuck them in. They were on the loose callin themselves the Revengers. They had the power of the dark force behi...



  • These powers of ours were lettin us explore things we never believed possible. They were also lettin us create things we never thought possible. We've got our hands full in this adventure tryin to get the treasures we've found to where they'll do the...



  • The Flor de la Mar held the greatest amount of treasure ever put on a ship. I sure don't know what they were thinkin when they did it. To top it off they set sail at the worst possible time and wound up shipwrecked in Sumatra. Now that we had aquatic...



  • The age old mystery of the missing continent of Atlantis popped up when Sam was goin through some Planet X ship's logs. He discovered an exploration ship from that planet had recorded in another ship's log they were crash landin on Earth. Now ya know...






  • The Revengers were out to get our treasures and make our lives as miserable as ya can possibly imagine. They were bent on takin over the world too. They weren't pullin any punches. Foul Manchu was givin them powers to match ours, and they were learni...



  • Foul Manchu was seekin to put a stop to us fer what we'd done to that first bunch of dark force warriors of his callin themselves the Revengers. He was lookin fer more evil doers to pit against us. He found them in hurry. It was a bunch Arabs we'd pu...



  • The dark force warriors of Foul Manchu weren't givin us a minutes rest. We'd no sooner get rid of one bunch of them than we had another bunch after us. Not only that, each new bunch was gainin strength on us regardin their powers. We had to find an a...



  • We got the Aswad Bahadur ditched in another universe. Our old nemesis Foul Manchu is even more determined to do somethin similar to us. We know he's workin on findin more dark force warriors to pit against us. We're hopin we'll have some time to work...



  • Ya remember don't ya me tellin ya bout them awful Penney Dreadfuls they wrote bout us over there in Europe? Wal now, get yerself ready for the Dime Novel that was popular here in America. Unknown 't us Rylan, who worked fer us 'n had helped as a Merl...



  • We're up against more dark force warriors and it was all my fault. I had the bright idea of usin old treasure chests the Dracula family had broken up and were usin to create "The Eye of the Devil". We'd gone to Transylvania and put them back together...



  • Professor Michaels, a renowned archeologist said his grandsons were born to be archeologists. He didn't waste any time training them to be just that. From the time they were toddlers he took them with him on what he called his expeditions in time. Th...



  • The Archeos, 3 cousins that are juniors in high school are still reeling from their astonishing archeological find they named the Valley of the Dwellers. Their grandfather Dr. James Michaels an eminent archeologist, took them with him from the time t...



  • This is the 4th short read in the series of the Archeo's adventures. High school seniors, Sam, Yoder and Mike have been schooled in archeology since they were toddlers by their grandfather Dr. James Michaels, an eminent archeologist. He's always take...



  • This is the next on the series of adventures of 3 high school cousins Sam Yoder and Mike who have a great talent in archeology. They're called the Archeos by their peers. The boys are the grandsons of Dr. James Michaels, an renowned archeologist. He'...






  • Sam, Yoder and Mike, the Archeo's, are entering their freshman year at Northern Coast University. It's the university where their grandfather, Dr. James Michaels holds a professorship in archeology. Things go very well for them until they learn the D...



  • Cousins Sam, Yoder and Mike, aka the Archeo's are back in Merlyn's Cavern and find things that astound them. Yoder stumbles on how to remote view anything he sets his mind to see. Mike finds the secret to unlocking the writings in the "Book of Magic"...



  • The Archeo's grandfather, Dr. James Michaels received an urgent telegram from Dr. Jando Buriti the archeologist that had guided them into the forbidding interior of the Pantanal in search the City of Z. The telegram said Dr. Guidion Duate, Jando's cl...



  • The Archeos on summer break between their sophomore and junior year at the university join their grandfather a world renowned archeologist as they try to find the City of Z. Over 100 others have tried and none have been heard of since. The expedition...



  • Sam 'n me, the me is a cowpoke called Gramps, are treasure hunters and this trilogy called "The "Monastery Treasures", tells you how they get started on a series of treasure hunts that will knock your socks off. This is the first of several anthologi...



  • Mordreda has long been the nemesis of the Archeos and is now determined to strip them of their powers, and close the Star Gate portals to their powers forever. Her only avenue to success is through Scarpio and The Scepter. She can get Scarpio all the...



  • It's Fall Quarter at the university and the cousins Sam, Yoder and Mike, aka the Archeos, seniors now, are thoroughly enjoying their classes. The class they're really into is their archeology class. Dr. Jack Crawford, their professor, is a master sto...



  • We'd had hardly any experience bein seminal and were anxious to find out more about what that meant. First though we had to figure out how to get Aunt Margaret, Nicole Ashley and Kate Lemrac teamed up with us agin because that were critical to allowi...



  • Sam, Yoder and Mike are nicknamed the Archeos by their peers. Although they're just high school kids they've already made significant archeological discoveries and are the envy of more seasoned professionals. Their love of archeology comes from their...



  • This adventure series starts with the ethereal Merlin, once the Wizard of Camelot, finally revealing himself to Sam, Gramps, Big Mike, Marie and John, who began acquiring mystical powers from his Book of Magic several adventures ago. The 5 treasure h...



  • We thought we were rid of the Revengers for good when the worst one of all turns up right in front of us in Merlin's cavern. It's Uncle Timothy and he not only managed to get into our safe haven, he had us paralyzed. He was so big he filled half of c...



  • Ever wondered about your own awareness? The physicist, Dr. Keith Duane did. He was convinced his individual conscience existed beyond his physical body and came from an unknown source. He was so intent on finding the answer to what made him who he wa...


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Branton K. Holmberg has published 61 books.

Branton K. Holmberg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Quantum Gateway, was published in January 2016.

The first book by Branton K. Holmberg, The Monastery Treasure, was published in October 2013.

Yes. Branton K. Holmberg has 1 series.