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1) Mummy Tombs
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A brown object sticks out of the sand in the Egyptian desert. Take a closer look and you can see the shriveled skin and brittle fingernails of a corpse's hand! Beneath your feet is a hidden graveyard filled with thousands of dead bodies. Get ready to read four spine-tingling stories about mummy tombs. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design...
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Cemetery tour guide Pepper Martin never imagined she'd get to meet rock legend Damon Curtis, the bad boy poet who made millions of teenage girls scream. After all, he kicked the bucket years before she was born. But thanks to her newfound ability to chat up the dead, Pepper's got a front row seat perfect for swooning over the still-sexy Damon's latest lyrics. He's convinced that his former bandmate Vinnie Pallucci murdered him back in '71, and he's...
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The Faerie War is over. Did we win?This is the first installment of the serialized novel DEAD WEIGHT, set within the world of THE FAERIE WAR. In "The Tombs," a former military bard, Boy Scout wallows in grief and self-pity in post-war San Francisco. He wants nothing more than to numb his mind and escape from the memories and stories that plague him from his time serving in the U.S. Marines during the war. However, conflict is brewing once again. Forces...
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Three young Native American sisters and their mother board a bus bound for Los Angeles, leaving home as part of a 1950's government mandate to relocate reserve Indians to urban centers. This assimilationist policy was one focus of Métis playwright Marie Clements's research when she was commissioned to create a new play for the tenth anniversary of the Native Voices series at the Autry National Center, Los Angeles. Clements dramatizes the emotional,...
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"Sacred Tombs and Burial Rituals" offers a profound exploration of the reverence ancient Egyptians held for the afterlife and the rituals surrounding death. From the construction of grand tombs to the intricate burial practices, this book delves into the spiritual beliefs that guided the funerary customs of one of history's most intriguing civilizations.
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Don Sturdy in the Tombs of Gold is a children's adventure novel by Victor Appleton. The story follows the adventures of the eponymous protagonist Don Sturdy, as he sets out to discover the secrets of an ancient Egyptian tomb. With the help of his friends, Don braves dangerous obstacles, including treacherous sandstorms and deadly traps, to uncover the hidden treasures of the tomb. Along the way, he learns the importance of perseverance and determination...
8) Presidential Grave Hunter: One Kid's Quest to Visit the Tombs of Every President and Vice President
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In 2003, nine-year-old presidential enthusiast Kurt Deion presented his father with an audacious request: would he help him follow in the footsteps of historian Richard Norton Smith and C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb by taking him to visit the final resting place of each dead U.S. president? He got all he asked for, and more.
Deion's journey to these tombs, and from elementary school neophyte to college history major, was unorthodox. With his zany,...
9) Burying the Dead in Ancient Egypt: The History of Egyptian Mummies, Tombs, and Other Burial Rituals
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Given the abundance of funerary artifacts that have been found within the sands of Egypt, it sometimes seems as though the Egyptians were more concerned with the matters of the afterlife than they were with matters of the life they experienced from day to day. This is underscored most prominently by the pyramids, which have captured the world's imagination for centuries. The pyramids of Egypt are such recognizable symbols of antiquity that for millennia,...
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Pete Tombs, author of "Immoral Tales", now brings readers into the exotic, erotic, and eccentric international film scene. Fully illustrated, Mondo Macabro includes an Indian song-and-dance version of "Dracula"; Turkish version of "Star Trek" and "Superman"; China's "hopping vampire" films, among other movies, and much, much more. 332 illustrations of color photos.
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Britannica Books
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2023.
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208 pages ; 21 cm
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"In this blast-from-the-past adventure [one will] discover hundreds of the most mind-blowing facts from history. Hidden tombs, ghostly ships, boiled vipers, samurai warriors, snow machines, pet lions, hidden pyramids, secret codes, flaming fireballs, wooden bathing suits, sparkling jewels, and many more are all woven together in this ingenious web of connected facts"--Amazon.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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xviii, 299 ; 23 cm
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"What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence? Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley...
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Basic Books
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2023.
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viii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a gleeful exploration of games and math, spanning centuries...
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