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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
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
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.
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A clue takes Amy and Dan Cahill to Egypt, where they investigate the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of their family and try to figure out if they can trust a message from their dead grandmother Grace.
Author
Series
Children of the lamp volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Author
Series
The boxcar children great adventure volume 2
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
140 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The orphaned Alden siblings travel to Egypt to return a lost artifact to its rightful location.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Still banned from exploring the Valley of the Kings, Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his wife Amelia Peabody--the intrepid amateur sleuth--are enjoying the summer tranquility of their English home. And then they're visited by two men who want their help on a daring mission to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant.
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
The secret of the hidden scrolls volume 3
Publisher
WorthyKids/ideals
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Peter, Mary, and Hank journey to the pyramid-studded desert of ancient Egypt. When the trio become friends with Pharaoh's daughter, they witness first-hand as Moses petitions Pharaoh for the Israelites' freedom. Plagues wreak havoc as the group races to decode the scroll, gets chased by a panther, and battles Pharaoh's cunning advisor, the Great Magician"--
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...