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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, Prague, and Angelica.
From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to...
From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to...
2) The mummy
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Jonathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Jonathan is keen on finding legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Imhotep, a former high priest to the pharoh, wants not only to use Evelyn's body...
4) Empress of the Nile: the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples from destruction
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Language
English
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Description
"The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: Fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs'...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
366 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1922, as her husband Emerson unsuccessfully tries to persuade his rival Howard Carter to turn over digging rights in the Valley of the Kings to him, Amelia Peabody and her family head for Luxor to search for the long-lost tomb of King Tut.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
350 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[The Mummy] In 1923 deep in the Egyptian desert, adventurer Rick and Egyptologist Evelyn free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Imhotep, the Egyptian high priest mummified alive and cursed as punishment for killing Pharaoh Seti and sleeping with his mistress, awakes to wreak his final vengeance on the world.
[The Mummy returns] This supernatural sequel finds Rick and his now-wife Evelyn trying to protect their son from various nasty undead...
15) Cry in the night
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Egyptologist Sheila Ramsay develops a newfound interest in MesoAmerican affairs after meeting an outspoken--and attractive--Mexico City curator, a harsh critic of museums that deal in stolen art. And her own museum gives her the perfect opportunity to see him again: a valuable Aztec manuscript needs to be returned to its rightful owners, the wealthy Ortega family. But things don't go as planned for Sheila south of the border. An anonymous note threatens...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 286 p : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the author's adventures discovering the tomb of Egypt's famous female pharaoh, Hatshepsut, in the Valley of the Kings and discusses his experiences becoming an archaeologist and dealing with eccentric colleagues.
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