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City spies volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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.
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Mamur Zapt mysteries volume 15
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"Daniel's sharp, sardonic wit and insider's view of book industry foibles are sure to make this bibliomystery a hit."-Publishers Weekly STARRED review
At the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association Convention, everything goes wrong. Julia Child's cooking demonstration in the Random House aisle blows up and catches fire. A top New York editor catches a pie in the face. Invitations to the most exclusive publisher's party are stolen...
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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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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
ix, 384 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When the Coptic community of Cairo is implicated in a series of child murders in the summer of 2001, Sudanese private investigator Makana fears an increase in religious tensions and identifies links to a woman with a dangerous secret.
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Series
Rocket Robinson graphic novels volume 1
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Upon finding a note written in hieroglyphics, Rocket Robinson and his pet monkey team up with gypsy girl Nuri in 1933 Cairo to unscramble the code and locate an ancient pharaoh's fortune before thief Otto von Stürm can find it.
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Publisher
MCD, Farar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
" A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report could. The City Always Wins is a remarkable novel from the psychological heart of a revolution. From the communal highs of pitched night battles against the police in Cairo to the solitary lows of defeated exile in New York, Omar Robert Hamilton's debut is a unique immersion in one of the key chapters of the twenty-first century. Arrestingly visual, intensely...
10) Liberty
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Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 10
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2003.
Physical Desc
12 CDs (14 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a quiet park bench in Manhattan--just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center--spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world....
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders the members of a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world forty years ago when...
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