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Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lady Evelyn Herbert was the daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon, brought up in stunning Highclere Castle. Popular and pretty, she seemed destined for a prestigious marriage, but she had other ideas. Instead, she left behind the world of society balls and chaperones to travel to the Egyptian desert, where she hoped to become a lady archaeologist, working alongside her father and Howard Carter in the hunt for an undisturbed tomb. In November 1922, their...
83) Pharaoh: a novel
Author
Series
Jack Howard novels volume 7
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
1334 BC: Akhenaten the Sun-Pharaoh rules supreme in Egypt. The young Tutahkhamun is groomed to be his successor. But then Akhenaten disappears and his legacy is seemingly swallowed up by the sands that lie under modern Cairo and the great pyramids of Giza. AD 1885: A half-crazed man appears claiming to know of a vast lost labyrinth beneath modern Cairo, of canals and palaces and tombs. His story won't be believed for almost thirty years, with the...
Author
Series
Lord Meren mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
86) The Horus Road
Author
Series
Lords of the two lands volume 3
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The future of Egypt lies in the hands of the Medjay's chief detective Rahotep in the final, gripping installment of Nick Drake's acclaimed Ancient Egyptian trilogy. Following Nefertiti and Tutankhamun, Egypt: The Book of Chaos puts Rahotep on a high-stakes adventure across enemy empires and rogue states on a top-secret mission to secure the fate of the dynasty. Readers of Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra and anyone fascinated by ancient cultures and unspoken...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very dangerous enemies when she travels to Cairo to uncover the truth about her brother's mysterious death.
When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his employer and the Egyptian authorities quickly declare his death a suicide. But the dead man's sister, Cate, doesn't believe Eric took his...
89) Where we belong
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Despite Victorian society's strict rules for women, Rebecca and Flora Hawes' desire for adventure has led them to the Sinai Desert. Accompanied by their young butler and their maid, the sisters search for a biblical manuscript. On their exotic journey, they experience challenges and wonders, and recall the events that brought them to this time and place." -- ONIX annotation.
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble, Inc
Pub. Date
20006
Language
English
Description
This exciting new antholgy of fiction and non-fiction features a diverse selection of remarkable talents, from major best-selling authors like Anne Rice and Elizabeth Peters to all-time favorites such as Bram Stoker and Agatha Christie.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a surveillance job leads private investigator Makana to the murder of a teenage girl, he and a woman named Zahra search for justice in a country where the authorities can be willing to turn a blind eye to apparent honor killings
Author
Series
Ramses the damned volume 3
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After being reawakened in twentieth century England, Ramses and Cleopatra must face an ancient presence in order to discover the origins of the Elixer of Life that brought them back from the dead.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh, Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a conspiracy that threatens his very life. With his international bestseller, The Seven Per Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously unpublished case of Sherlock Holmes that reinvigorated the world's interest in the first consulting detective....
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is...
Author
Publisher
Author Academy Elite
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jealousy. Greed. Power. Deception. Murder. The beginning of the end of a golden empire. When family drama threatens to unseat the rightful heir, palace intrigues rouse a conspiracy to commit murder. Entangled in mystery and life-or-death power plays, this novel unveils the burdens of a hero king secretly despised for his own colossal achievements. What happens when political schemes go too far? Blind loyalty may prove fatal if family secrets jeopardize...
Author
Series
Eye of Isis volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After two Alexandrian fishermen discover a skeleton anchored by a cement weight, Queen Cleopatra charges Tetisheri, her new Eye of Isis, to uncover the identities of the victim and the killers.
47 B.C. Two Alexandrian fishermen come across the body of a skeleton floating upright at the bottom of the sea, anchored in place by a cement weight around his feet. In Alexandria's rough-and-tumble construction trade they call that 'being fitted with a pair...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for pay. He whiles away his time with his slave Bethesda, waiting for the world to regain its sanity. But on the day Gordianus turns twenty-two, Bethesda is...
98) Theft of an idol
Author
Series
Eye of Isis volume 3
Publisher
Head of Zeus Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Cleopatra's most beloved actress disappears, her new Eye of Isis must solve a case that will lead to the darkest corners of Alexandria"--
Cleopatra--seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess Isis, ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt--is surrounded by riches untold. It is a comfortable life. But not all are invited to share in the wealth of Alexandria, Egypt's first city. For the peasants and farmers, their lives lie in the hands of the gods and...
99) Titans of war
Author
Series
Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 8
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For over fifty years Egypt has known nothing but war and devastation at the hands of the Hyksos, a bloodthirsty barbarian people from the distant east who continue to advance, crushing armies in their wake. Times are desperate, but throughout the conflict, a brave resistance fights on under the great Taita, a slave who has risen far beyond his ranks. Piay, entrusted into Taita's care by his parents at the age of just five, has been trained to become...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventures volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The orphaned Alden siblings travel to Egypt to return a lost artifact to its rightful location.
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