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Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen King Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy...
2) Desert god
Author
Series
A novel of ancient Egypt volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
On the gleaming banks of the Nile, the brilliant Taita -- a freed slave and advisor to the Pharaoh -- devises a plan to destroy Egypt's most feared enemy, the mighty Hyksos. His quest will take him on an epic journey up the ancient river, through Arabia and the magical city of Babylon and across the open seas -- all in the company of the Pharaoh's exquisite sisters. With the future of the kingdom itself on his shoulders, Taita plunges into a world...
Author
Series
Poirot volume 15
Language
English
Description
The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Well-heeled travelers from around the world flock to the Mena House Hotel - an exotic gem in the heart of Cairo where cocktails flow, adventure dispels the aftershocks of World War I, and deadly dangers wait in the shadows . . . - Egypt, 1926. Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won't be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie's best efforts at meddling with her love life, the young widow would...
Author
Publisher
Preston Speed Publications
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
339 p.: ill.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1250 B.C. the teenaged son of the Egyptian high priest sets off a series of harrowing events when he accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes and, accompanied by his sister and two foreign slaves, embarks on a dangerous journey to find safe haven beyond the borders of Egypt.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Asked to travel to Egypt to help with an urgent archaeological expedition, Flat Stanley suspects that he might be helping grave robbers and must rely on his quick thinking, unique flatness, and new friends to make things right.
10) Egypt
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Rev. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
144 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph. D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11" of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as "Sir John Smythe."...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
With fact boxes and sidebars offering additional information, this book introduces the worst things about life in ancient Egypt, from arranging the details of their mummification to the ancient Egyptians having very set ways of doing things.
Author
Series
Eye of Isis volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 310 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two Alexandrian fishermen come across a horrifying sight – 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 of Rhakotis sandals' and what's worse, he's the second such victim in two years.
Queen Cleopatra is busy rebuilding her city after the Alexandrian War and these murders are not...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This title explores and explains how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. The pyramid's construction is described in terms of the engineering process"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the discovery and excavation of the tomb of King Tutankhamen, also known as King Tut, and the myth of the curse that afflicted those involved in the tomb's exploration. Written in graphic-novel format.
18) A pure heart
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters--their divergent fates and the secrets of one family Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo. During the aftermath of Egypt's revolution, Gameela is killed in a suicide bombing....
19) City of the dead
Author
Series
City spies volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When hackers target locations all over London, Kat leads the City Spies in testing security for the British Museum where a secret message leads them to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead.