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He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratings1914 finds archaelogists Amelia Peabody, narrator, and husband Radcliffe Emerson back in Egypt for another dig, despite civil unrest. Defiantly pacifist son Ramses hides his spy activity with cousin David. He rescues Molly, and his dazzling smile conquers yet another female. An artifact from Giza confirms the return of archnemesis Sethos... -
The Last Oracle and The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Bundle by James Rollins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Last Oracle and The Doomsday Key has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...Categorized as:
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Charm School by Nelson DeMille
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsRead by James NaughtonSomething very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. In a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be model citizens of the USA. The Soviet goal -- to infiltrate the United States undetected... -
Mister Slaughter by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon... -
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Journey of the Pharaohs by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsANCIENT SECRETS. MODERN WEAPONS . . . When Kurt Austin rescues the crew of a Scottish trawler, he finds himself trying to save them not once but twice. First, from the violent storm that dashes their vessel into jagged rocks and, second, from the deadly gunmen desperate to get their hands on its lost cargo of stolen Egyptian artefacts...Categorized as:
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Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFor archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family, the allure of Egypt remains as powerful as ever, even in this tense time of World War. But nowhere in this desert land is safe -- especially for Amelia's son Ramses and his beautiful new wife Nefret... -
The Sahara Legacy by Ernest Dempsey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUnimaginable wealth. The authority to command nations. Eternal life. The god-like power promised by the lost desert city of Zerzura is as frightening as it is alluring. Former secret agent Sean Wyatt and his best friend, Tommy Schultz, have never hunted anything like it...Categorized as:
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The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAmelia hopes to rekindle some of the old fire with Emerson in a return journey to Amarna, Egypt where they met 13 years before... -
The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBestselling author Peters brings back 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in a delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids... -
Black Cross by Greg Iles
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt is January 1944 — and as Allied troops prepare for D-day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force. To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the poison gas is being perfected on human subjects... -
Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe fifteenth adventure for Amelia, Emerson and the whole Peabody-Emerson clan! At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents... -
Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Year is 1951. A smooth-talking Chicago lawyer has come to chat with Sam Vincent, a former prosecutor, about a dangerous unknown - a prison for violent black convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, a place of many questions but no answers... -
Zet and the Egyptian Amulet Mystery by Scott Peters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDo You Love Mysteries? "Zet and the Egyptian Amulet Mystery" Will Keep You Up All Night, Guessing Until The Last Page Zet and Kat are back. When the Nile town of Thebes is threatened by a scarab-amulet eating ghost, Zet is determined to uncover the truth. Is the ghost real? Meanwhile Zet's best friend, a jeweler's apprentice, is in trouble... -
Buried Pyramid, The by Jerry Dubs
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReaders of “Imhotep” will find themselves transported once more to ancient Egypt with Imhotep, King Djoser, Meryt, Hetephernebti and other familiar characters in this second novel about the famous architect of the Step Pyramid... -
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A Rogue About Town by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA disgruntled operative… Gabriel Statler, Lord Wharton, has a problem. His duties as an operative for the Crown are being compromised for the sake of his cover, where he is known only as the Rogue. His days are now filled with trivial investigations, and none of the problems are ones he wants to solve...Categorized as:
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The Swagger Sword: Templars, Columbus and the Vatican Cover-up by David S. Brody
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the 1980s, a Vatican archbishop and rogue group of Freemasons were implicated in the murder of Pope John Paul I. A decade later, that same cleric illicitly acquired an ancient Templar scroll directly undermining fundamental Church teachings. Today, historians Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn stumble upon a sword engraved with a map leading to this hidden scroll...Categorized as:
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The Sea Wolves by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler...Categorized as:
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Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsOne of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams... -
The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt's 1922. Amelia Peabody and her family have returned to the Valley of the Kings, and look forward to delving once more into the mysteries buried in Egypt's sands. But a widow's strange story -- and even stranger request -- will plunge them into a storm of secrets, treachery, and murder.The woman has come bearing a treasure -- a golden likeness of a forgotten king -- which she claims is cursed... -
The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEverywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure...Categorized as:
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The Skeleton Key by James Rollins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a thrilling short story that delves deep beneath the city of Paris to a dark necropolis, where the only means for escape is…The Skeleton Key... -
The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. In these perilous times, archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers... -
The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAmelia, her husband Emerson, their 13-year-old son Ramses, and their beautiful ward Nefret return to Egypt for an exciting excavation. The dig is at an undisturbed Royal Tomb, a true find--and an irresistible temptation for art thieves, jealous colleagues, looters, the press, and the countless evil-doers... -
The Bone Labyrinth by James Rollins
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA series of strange events throws the world into turmoil. As a manned Chinese rocket explodes upon launch, three American astronauts, each separated by thousands of miles, are murdered. Then an archaeologist in Croatia uncovers a new cavern system that reveals elaborate primitive paintings by a tribe of Neanderthals... -
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Kingdom of Darkness by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHistory’s most sought after treasure is now mankind’s worst fear.In Los Angeles, a desperate man seeks out renowned archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase -- only to be gunned down in front of them. The assassin is soon identified as a ninety-year-old Nazi war criminal -- with the body of a healthy forty-year-old... -
Mystery of the Egyptian Scroll by Scott Peters
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou, who have dug deep and sifted hard for a story to read, have unearthed an ancient treasure: a mystery from the dusty ages, when a boy could be a hero and fight for the good of all . . . ZET TRIES TO TRACK DOWN A MISSING SCROLL IN HIS FIRST EXCITING ADVENTURE. 12-year-old Zet and his sister Kat are in charge of the family pottery stall now that their father is off fighting the Hyksos... -
The Alexandria Affair by Ashley Gardner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCaptain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however--James Denis has tasked him with finding an "object" in Alexandria and procuring it, whatever the cost.The task does not turn out to be so simple...Categorized as:
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The Jerusalem Creed by Ernest Dempsey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Action. Never. Stops. Ernest Dempsey novels have been downloaded over 100,000 times all over the world! When Babylonian armies invaded Jerusalem, they ripped through the city, leaving a swath of destruction in their wake and they took almost everything Israel held sacred. Almost... -
The Jungle by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAbridged, 5 CDs, 6 hours Read by Jason Culp The extraordinary new adventure from "the best storyteller in the business" ("The New York Post")... -
The Titanic Secret by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW*The Titanic's greatest secret is finally revealed . . .When Dirk Pitt raised the Titanic in search of a rare and valuable element he never learned the disturbing true story of its origins. But upon receiving secret testimony from private detective Isaac Bell he's taken back to the year 1911 and a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine... -
Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn ancient mystery becomes an all-too-real modern threat for Dirk Pitt and his colleagues, in an extraordinary adventure novel in one of suspense fiction's most beloved series.The murder of a team of U.N. scientists while investigating mysterious deaths in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off Detroit. An attack from tomb raiders on an archeological site along the Nile... -
The Eye of God by James Rollins
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe crash of a U.S. military research satellite in the remote wilds of Mongolia triggers an explosive search for the valuable cargo it holds: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy, the energy connected to the birth of our universe... -
The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFor four thousand years, the lavish crypt of the Pharoah Mamose has never been found-- until the beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma finds a tantalizing clue to its location in the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic document written by the slave Taita.But the location of the crypt and its treasure is a secret others would kill to possess...Categorized as:
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The Lance by Alex Lukeman
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereAs Hitler's Germany faces final defeat, the Lance that pierced Christ's side – a weapon of legendary power – is spirited away to a secret base hidden in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Decades later the Lance is found, and a long-term plan to conquer America from within begins to unfold...Categorized as:
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The Year of the Cobra by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe young Pharoah Tutankhamun is unwell, but there is no heir apparent. Egypt's enemies, the Hittites, are advancing through Canaan, and Ay - First Minister of Akenhaten, father of Nefertiti, brother of Queen Tiye - still plots, like the spider he is. The web is woven, the traps set.. -
The Blooding by James McGee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHawkwood finds himself behind enemy lines in America during the war of 1812—for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Patrick O'Brien1812: Matthew Hawkwood, soldier turned spy, is stranded behind enemy lines, in America, a country at war with Britain... -
An Evil Spirit Out of the West by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKnown as the Veiled One, the ugly and deformed Akenhaten is a shadowy figure. As a child he is overlooked and despised by his own father. As an adult he is thrust into the political limelight when his elder brother dies. Mahu, ambitious and ruthless, watches the young prince carve his own path to power... -
Jester Leaps In by Alan Gordon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 13th century Europe, political turmoil is the order of the day and the Fool's Guild and its agents - jesters, jugglers, and knaves to a man - works behind the scenes to manipulate events, trying to maintain a balance of power...Categorized as:
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City of the Dead by T.L. Higley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUp from the sands of Egypt rises the Great Pyramid, where Hemiunu, Pharaoh’s Grand Vizier, commands the historic building project as he orders his life—with justice, truth, and precision. But when a series of murders at the site threatens chaos, Hemi must abandon his legacy to hunt down the killer who may be closer than he would like to think... -
The Impossible Virgin by Peter O'Donnell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings* THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING MODESTY BLAISE SERIES *'The finest escapist thrillers ever written' THE TIMES'Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel, there was Modesty Blaise' OBSERVERMischa Novikov had never even considered defecting from Russia until one day when his analysis of a satellite picture of central Africa revealed an almost inaccessible valley...Categorized as:
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The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck…Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places...Categorized as:
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Heir of Ra by M. Sasinowski
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlyssa signed up to study history, not to rewrite it. An excavation of the fabled Hall of Records beneath the Sphinx unleashes an ancient disease that leaves her father fighting for his life. As Alyssa races to find a cure, she stumbles onto an impossible artifact that could change history—or destroy our future... -
A Dying Light in Corduba by Lindsey Davis
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNobody is poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers; the assassination attempt comes afterward. Falco ought to know, he is at the banquet along with some unexpected guests, including Anacrites the Chief Spy and Falco's own hostile brat of a brother-in-law, Aelianus... -
The Spy by Andrew Gross
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFebruary, 1943. Both the Allies and the Nazis are closing in on attempts to construct the decisive weapon of the war. Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance... -
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A Falcon Flies by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA Falcon Flies by Wilbur SmithIn 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper--in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness...Categorized as:
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The Romanov Ransom by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTreasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan, in the thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway... -
The Assassin by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell tracks a killer across the nation’s oilfields in this adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling historical series. As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn... -
The Lost Empress by Steve Robinson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom acclaimed author Steve Robinson comes a bold new Jefferson Tayte mystery.On a foggy night in 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland sank en route between Canada and England. The disaster saw a loss of life comparable to the Titanic and the Lusitania, and yet her tragedy has been forgotten... -
The Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCan fear kill? There are those who believe so but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy's curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum... -
Up Country by Nelson DeMille, Scott Brick
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Barnes & Noble ReviewNelson DeMille is a consummate storyteller whose wit, unstoppable narrative momentum, and edgy, sardonic authorial voice have won him legions of fans over his extensive career...
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