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Russian trilogy (Noel Nynd) volume 3
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English
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When a woman who is smart, tough, and cool under fire travels to Cairo to investigate a former mentor who was believed to be dead, she is caught in a bizarre game of double cross, and her life is more perilously on the line than ever.
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"Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls. But his heart skips a beat when, this time, he hears the voice of the only woman he ever truly loved, calling to ask why her husband...
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English
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It is 2002 and as tanks roll into the West Bank and the reverberations of 9/11 echo across the globe, tensions are running high on Cairo's streets.
Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of his wife and daughter, is shaken out of his despondency when a routine surveillance job leads him to the horrific murder of a teenage girl. In a country where honour killings are commonplace and the...
Private Investigator Makana, in exile from his native Sudan and increasingly haunted by memories of his wife and daughter, is shaken out of his despondency when a routine surveillance job leads him to the horrific murder of a teenage girl. In a country where honour killings are commonplace and the...
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City spies volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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"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"--WorldCat.
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Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Frank and Joe try to solve a murder in Egypt possibly committed over a map to a precious golden mummy.
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English
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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...
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The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II, and of her one...
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Mamur Zapt mysteries volume 13
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English
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The world is changing around the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police. It's 1912 and there's a war on that no one's heard of. When an Italian man is murdered in the city's back streets, there is concern that this could be some kind of ethnic cleansing. "One of us" Morelli may have been, but was he "one of us" enough? And were the guns in his warehouse anything to do with it? Gareth Owen - the Mamur Zapt - has to find out fast.
And then,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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When fourteen-year-old Talibah and her ten-year-old brother, Adom, visit modern-day Egypt with their historian-father, they become involved in a mystery surrounding Hatshepsut, a woman pharoah, and Senenmut, architect of her mortuary tomb, as well as their own deceased mother.
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Author Carolyn Baugh tells the moving story of a young American student living in the Garden City district of Cairo. Having come to study Arabic, she learns far more from the Egyptian women, young and old, she meets within the swirl and tumult of Garden City. Living, loving, and flourishing amid the fierce inflexibility of tradition, these women reveal a fascinating world of arranged marriages, secret romances, and the often turbulent bonds between...
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Royal match volume 04
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English
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The Countess of Dearborn, keeping her no-good husband's family believing he's alive and well so they don't kick her out, is stunned when the Weslorian Earl of Marlaine arrives from Egypt, duty bound to return her deceased husband's precious pocket watch, and draws him into her ruse.
13) Liberty
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English
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Learning that a terrorist network has obtained easily transportable nuclear weapons and is being aided by an American traitor with access to the highest levels of government, Jake Grafton is given orders by the president to stop an attack.
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English
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"Set over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and...
15) Rescuing Rayne
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Delta Force heroes volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Keane "Ghost" Bryson is on his way home to Texas from a secret mission when a layover in London gives him a chance meeting with Rayne Jackson, a flight attendant. They enjoy one perfect day and night in London, and then Ghost has to continue on to Texas. A chance meeting months later puts Ghost in Rayne's orbit once again. She has been a victim of terrorist activity and Ghost is sent to help her and her fellow victims.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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On the death of her father, 32-year old Victorian heiress Amelia Peabody travels Egypt to indulge her interest in Egyptology. She travels with Evelyn Barton-Forbes and her trusty parasol which comes in handy on more than one occasion. In Cairo the pair meet archaeologists Radcliffe and Walter Emerson and sparks fly between Radcliffe and Amelia. The groups meet again at Emerson's excavation where Amelia saves Radcliffe's life and takes charge of his...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Long before she became the X-Man known as Storm, a young orphan named Ororo Munroe stalked the streets of Cairo picking pockets and scraping to survive. Get ready for some awesome Egyptian action and adventure as Ororo leads her fellow street urchins on the adventure of a lifetime! This is a history lesson you won't want to miss!--Publisher.
Long before she became the X-Man known as Storm, a young orphan named Ororo Munroe stalks the streets of Cairo,...
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Adventures of Bella & Harry volume 4
Adventures of Bella and Harry volume 4
Adventures of Bella and Harry volume 04
Adventures of Bella and Harry volume 4
Adventures of Bella and Harry volume 04
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Follows two Chihuahuas, Bella and Harry, as they tour Cairo, Egypt with their human family.
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