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61) Siege of heaven
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Wheelchair warrior Fred Custer and recently retired Green Beret Hickey go on a quest to find an old friend, Jim Simpson, who is mssing. The trail leads them to the Egyptian desert where a man named Manuel Kramer runs a dark torture prison nicknamed the Death Factory. Their investigation leads to greed, corruption and lies. Can they save their friend?
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Orion Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Separated from her detective companions by a storm at sea, Nubia, believing that her friends have perished, endeavors to return to her homeland, while Flavia, Jonathan and Lupus attempt to rejoin her on an adventurous voyage up the Nile.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While consulting at an Egyptian library, software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi is kidnapped and her talent for preserving memories becomes her only means of escape as the power of her ingenious work is revealed, while jealous sister Judith takes over Josie's life at home.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a British archaeologist who had been missing for two years reappears, frantic and delirious, but dies before he can tell his story, Sigma Force must stop an ancient plague with ties to some of history's most innovative minds.
67) Liberty
Author
Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Semi-retired Rear Admiral Jake Grafton finds himself in a race to avert disaster when a Russian spy informs him that a rogue general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islam terrorist group which plans to detonate them in the United States.
68) Pyramid: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the streets of Cairo run red with blood due to a violent political awakening, Jake Howard and his team of marine archaeologists gather together to solve one of the greatest mysteries involving a fossilized discovery in the Red Sea and a 110-year-old handwritten report that could change history.
69) Beyond the grave
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A clue found in Book 3 sends Amy and Dan jetting off to find out what's behind the fierce rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of the Cahill family. Was a clue stolen from the Tomas branch? Where is it now? And, most important, can Amy and Dan get their hands on it before their rivals do?
70) Reawakened
Author
Series
The reawakened volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"A visit to an Egyptian exhibit brings teen Lilliana Young face to face with a recently awakened mummy-turned-handsome-sun-god as she gets caught up in an adventure with more twists and turns than the Nile itself"--
Author
Series
Templar novels (Paul Christopher) volume 2
Publisher
Signet/New American Library
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Retired Army Ranger John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point, when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news. Holliday's niece--and Rafi's financée--Peggy has been kidnapped while photographing the excavation of an ancient tomb in Egypt. Her captors are known as the Brotherhood of the Temple of Isis--murderous fanatics who worship a dead god. Holliday sets out with Rafi to find...
72) The alchemist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world.Combing magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
73) City of jackals
Author
Series
Makana mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Mourad Hafiz appears to have dropped out of university and disappeared. Engaged by his family to try and find him, Makana comes to believe that the Hafiz boy became involved in some kind of political activity just prior to his disappearance. But before he can discover more, the investigation is sidetracked: a severed head turns up on the riverbank next to his home, and Makana finds himself drawn into ethnic rivalry and gang war among young men from...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a cafe in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants "returning" to a country she's never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and...
Author
Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 14
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Global Protection Force refused to share any details with Jack about his brother's whereabouts, but on two previous missions, Jack had collected clues that pointed to Max being in Egypt. Now Jack has reason to believe that King Tut's diadem--a crown thought to have magical powers--is the cause of Max's disappearance. Can Jack prevent an ancient and terrible curse of the pharaohs from wreaking havoc and finally save Max?
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A seventh installment in the popular Masters of Rome series retells the story of Antony and Cleopatra from a meticulously researched perspective that features detailed historical and psychological details about the love affair that transformed the ancient world.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo travels to Egypt to interview Professor Alrat Spitfur and learns the secret of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Mouse World.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Trade
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"1912 London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again. 1932. Twenty years later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished from her parents' home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that the two events must be related, she sets out...
79) Thieves fall out
Author
Publisher
Hard Case Crime/Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In 1953, Vidal had already begun writing the works that would launch him to the top ranks of American authors and intellectuals. But in the wake of criticism for the scandalous content of his third novel, The City and the Pillar, Vidal turned to writing crime fiction under pseudonyms: three books as "Edgar Box" and one as "Cameron Kay." The Edgar Box novels were subsequently republished under his real name. The Cameron Kay never was. Lost for more...
80) La señal
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B/Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
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