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A clever trick saves the workers who are building the Great Pyramid from being punished, and their working conditions are improved as well.
Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404812734
A clever trick saves the workers who are building the Great Pyramid from being punished, and their working conditions are improved as well.
Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781559703147
In ancient Egypt, a pharaoh wants to dispense with a pyramid as his grave, but the priests convince him that building one is necessary to keep the populace busy and controlled. A political allegory by an Albanian writer, author of The Concert.
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2009
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ISBN : 9788961753135
Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0571309186
Follow young Oliver's rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Eighteen is a good time for suffering Welcome to the country town of Stillbourne. Restless teenage resident Oliver wants to enjoy himself before going to university, beginning with his pursuit of the Town Crier's daughter. But in this claustrophobic community - stifled by the English class system, and where everybody knows everyone's business - love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment . . . 'Golding depicts with subtle skill all the pains of growing up and growing old. He treats us to some superb comic episodes.' Daily Telegraph 'Golding's most approachable novel and a curiously personal one, that returns to the mind again and again as if the shames and idylls were one's own.' Guardian 'Neatly drawn, funny and touching . . . The snap, the tang, and the tension in Golding's prose is always a pleasure.' Harper's
Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423142497
Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. From the creator of the hit Percy Jackson series.
Author : Pete Hautman
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 076366376X
The much-anticipated sequel to The Obsidian Blade transports readers to the terrifying and thrilling world of Lah Lia, the enigmatic girl who changed Tucker Feye’s life. More than half a millennium in the future, in the shadow of the looming Cydonian Pyramid, a pampered girl named Lah Lia has been raised for one purpose: to be sacrificed through one of the mysterious diskos that hover over the pyramid’s top. But just as she is about to be killed, a strange boy appears from the diskos, providing a cover of chaos that allows her to escape and launching her on a time-spinning journey in which her fate is irreversibly linked to his. In this second volume of the Klaatu Diskos trilogy, Tucker Feye and Lah Lia each hurtle through time, relating their stories in alternating viewpoints that converge at crucial moments. Fans of the first adventure will be intrigued by the chance to see the world through Lah Lia’s eyes — no matter how disturbing the vision might be.
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Discworld (Imaginary place)
ISBN : 0552152641
It isn't easy being a teenage pharaoh, having to deal with assassins, sphinxes, mad high priests, gods, sacred crocodiles and marching mummies. And all you really want is the chance to do something for young people and the inner cities.
Author : Terry L. Krohn
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780976023739
In Eye of the Pyramid, author Krohn takes the reader on a fascinating journey through 2000 years of history, all the while laying the foundation for much of the financial corruption seen today. A growing number of readers throughout the country are finding something special in this novel. One reader writes, "Paul Malone seems fated to take his place alongside such popular fictional characters as Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt and Dan Brown's Robert Langdon." Midwest Book Reviews describes it as "an enthralling and adventurous tale." A housewife in rural Atlanta says, "There were so many places in the novel that were special to me, I simply don't know where to begin," and an attorney in Washington D.C. says, "I savored reading Eye of the Pyramid over many late nights between Christmas and New Years." *** Dr. Paul Malone is a physicist living in contemporary time. Since childhood, he has received cryptic messages from his dreams. Edward Leedskalnin, who died in 1951, single-handedly built the Coral Castle, which stands to this day as a major tourist attraction in Homestead, Florida. How could Ed have moved sixty-thousand pound stones by himself? Esau, the innocent son of shepherds, was born over two thousand years ago in Egypt. What did Esau find in the desert that was to change the course of history? What do these men, these Gifted Ones, have in common? *** Helop lived in Ancient Egypt and was Chief Counsel to Cleopatra. He established the Society, a malevolent organization driven by greed and the lust for power. The Society flourished throughout the ages, influencing events that ranged from the destruction of the Roman Empire to the death of Abraham Lincoln. Now, the Society has a designthat is more ambitious and has corrupted an important political figure in America. Who is it? What is the Society's goal? What is the thread that binds t
Author : Tom Martin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330452113
A heady mix of action-thriller and adventure, featuring codes, cartography and ancient civilizationsIn case I don't return. Eureka 40 10 4 400 30 9 30 70 100 5 200 30 10 40 1 80 5 100 400 40 10 50 10 200 300 100 8 70 9 1 50 300 10 20 800 10 300 10 200 0051172543672 An eminent Oxford professor is murdered - but the authorities are calling it a suicide. Beautiful young don Catherine Donovan refuses to believe the official verdict - especially after she receives a cryptic note sent just before the professor's death, along with a collection of priceless antique maps. Teaming up with classicist James Rutherford, she embarks on a journey which takes them from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the ancient wonders of Peru and Egypt. With a shadowy organization determined to stop them, can Catherine and James unlock the mystery of the ancients before they become the killers' next victims? And can it really be possible that these clues are warning of an imminent cataclysm - one that puts even more than their lives in peril?
Author : Jerry Dubs
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2016-12-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781519070289
"Imhotep" is the first book in a four-novel series about the ancient Egyptian architect. Stumbling in the dark of an unfinished tomb beneath the sands of Saqqara, American tourist Tim Hope unknowingly passes through a time portal that leads to ancient Egypt -- a time before the Sphinx, before the great pyramids of Giza, and long before the loss of his beloved Addy. When he discovers that two other Americans preceded him through the time portal, Tim immerses himself in the ancient world to search for them. As he becomes more comfortable with the simpler, more immediate land, he finds himself irresistibly attracted to the delicate Meryt, a wbt-priestess for the god Re. Learning that a seven-year famine has led to a plot to overthrow King Djoser, Tim discovers that his fate, the lives of the two Americans and the future of Egypt rest in the hands of the legendary Imhotep, master architect of the Step Pyramid, renowned physician and intimate adviser to King Djoser. Downloaded by more than 100,000 readers, "Imhotep" is the first book in an acclaimed four-book series about the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep. The second book in the series is "The Buried Pyramid." The third book is "The Forest of Myrrh." The fourth book is "The Field of Reeds."