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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.
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Secrets of the sands volume 3
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A search for answers from a mysterious Oracle has Sesha and her friends navigating intrigue and danger in this thrilling conclusion to the Secrets of the Sands series. Leaving the oasis, Sesha and her friends set sail for Avaris, intent on stopping the Hyksos Chieftain from claiming the throne and declaring war on Thebes. On the journey, Sesha learns that she and the scroll are at the centre of a pair of prophecies made by a famed Oracle - prophecies...
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Ancient Egyptian healer and scribe Sesha is ready for another role: spy. Be sure to read Sesha's first adventure, The Lost Scroll of the Physician. Forced to flee Thebes or face death, Sesha and her friends, Paser and Reb, travel up the Nile and into the desert in search of a hidden oasis. Led by a freed spy, they plan to rescue Pharaoh's daughter Princess Merat, given to a Hyksos chieftain against her will. Before they can get there, though, they...
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Sigma Force novels volume 16
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"It begins in Africa... A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle -- known...
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The Library: Only a handful know it exists. It holds the world's most astonishing and terrifying information. But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time is missing. Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved and survived the "Doomsday Killer" case and his reward was a forced early retirement. But the shattering truths he learned about the government's most covert operations won't let him rest and now he's on the trail of...
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Flashback Four volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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650L
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"Sent back in time to 79 AD, on a mission to photograph the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Flashback Four race to get their picture"--WorldCat.
7) The Iliad
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1330L
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When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...
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Sigma Force novels volume 15
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"For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of even older artifacts--tools of war--dating back to the Bronze...
9) The Odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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1050L
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Odysseus--soldier, sailor, trickster, and everyman--is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's Odyssey, is the most accessible tale to survive from ancient Greece, and its impact is still felt today across many different cultures. This lively free verse translation, from one of today's leading Homeric scholars, preserves the clarity and simplicity...
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"It's been more than a year since the cruise ship Queen of the Sea was transported in time and space to the ancient Mediterranean not long after the death of Alexander the Great. Captain Lars Floden and the other "Ship People" are trying to plant the seeds of modern civilization. It's not an easy task, to put it mildly, even if they have a tacit alliance with the co-regents of Alexander's empire, his widow Roxane, and Eurydice, the wife of his half-brother....
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In this swashbuckling tale of medieval adventure, an English fisherman lost at sea finds romance, intrigue, and war among the peoples of Peru.
While exploring the jumble of curiosities at the home of an eccentric antiquarian, an editor discovers a collection of letters dating back to the era of King Richard II. These letters recount the incredible life story of one Hubert of Hastings, a fisherman turned London goldsmith whose turbulent fortunes brought...
12) Antediluvian
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"What if all our legends are true? A rousing, fast-paced novel of time travel unlike any other, from acclaimed author Wil McCarthy. What if our legends are older than we think? All the Stone Age has left behind are rocks and bones; all other materials have rotted away, leaving no trace. But what if "cave men" never existed, and the Stone Age was a time of great sophistication still preserved in our oldest stories? In a brilliant and dangerous brain...
13) She and Allan
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She and Allan is one of H. Rider Haggard's most exciting novels of adventure and romance. In bringing together two of his most compelling characters, Allan Quatermain, the quirky English Big-Game hunter and explorer, and the seductive and iconic supernatural African Queen Ayesha, or popularly known as "she-who-must-be-obeyed," Haggard has created one of the most exciting stories in his body of work.
When Allan Quatermain seeks out the Zulu witch-doctor...
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Epona sequence volume 1
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In a time before history, in a land of legend, where wild horsemen wage endless war across a sea of grass, the last descendant of the White Mare's servants follows a sacred vision beyond the edge of the world. There she finds a land ruled by women, whose people have no word for war. But the horsemen are coming. The White Mare's daughter must try to stop them, and both save and change the world.
15) Boomerang Gold
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Captain Calder Velden, a ruthless seafaring servant of the Secret Dutch Allegiance, had been summoned to serve his state in territories unknown.1586 AD his beloved homelands were under Spanish Rule, there seemed to be no answers on how the resistance could end the tyranny. Backed by incredible wealth, King Phillip II of Spain had established a World Power hell bent on conquering all known territories.The Dutch Allegiance knew the Spanish had discovered...
16) The Waters' Fury
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The signs' quest 1 The waters' fury Kadmeron, a young hunter-gatherer from Western Europe, prepares for his shamanic initiation. The horse's spirit comes to warn him during his sleep of an imminent catastrophe. The incessant rains that have falling on the Saveronacs people for months have weakened the soil. They have also profoundly changed the behavior of humans and animals. While participating in a deer hunt, Kadmeron finds himself confronted with...
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A historically-based novel with authentic, legendary, & fictional characters interacting across the extraordinary panorama of the Bronze Age Collapse in the Hittite Empire between the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean seas. Diomedes, previously a hero of the Trojan War, and the polyglot Peoples of the Sea raid inland into the Hittite Empire during its final months. It is both a study of ancient mythic consciousness and an exciting adventure of love,...
18) Chains of Rome
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Amid the grandeur and violence, love struggles to bloomUncertainty. Fear. Salaria lives in their shadow, surviving the bite of the yoke upon her. As punishment, she's thrown into a world of raw brutality, of lust, and blood.Her survival depends on the proud ex-Chieftain who offers her protection.Tritus's hatred of Rome is surpassed only by his quest for revenge.Forced together to survive, their hearts burn for more. But love is a luxury no slave can...
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La quête des signes 4Reconnaissants – quoique surpris par la rapidité de la célébration de leur mariage – Zia et Kadmeron débutent une nouvelle vie pleine de promesses dans la ginte du Rocher Fendu. Unis l'un à l'autre mais loin de chez eux, ils trouvent petit à petit leurs marques dans cette existence rude au milieu des montagnes. La saison des neiges approchant à grand pas, ils participent avec courage aux efforts de la communauté pour...
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67 BC. Rome.Trust. Kindness. Reckless and dangerous words in Arria's inhuman world. Her master's most favored slave, Arria knows the kindest of smiles hide the most monstrous of intentions.Put to cart by her bitter, hate-filled mistress, Arria's sadistic world is uprooted and a new terror unfolds. Within Lanista Celer Marcus's estate Arria is cast adrift and she struggles to trust in herself and those around her. Her position is not defined, choice...
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