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The Museum of Natural History receives a pilfered gem collection back that is ground to dust. To quell the PR nightmare the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef, that's when the killings and talk of ancient curse start. FBI agent Pendergast is pitted against his brother Diogenes who steal the gems.
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
El Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, is here--and this board book is the perfect format to introduce the youngest readers to the holiday!
Cristina is excited to celebrate Día de los Muertos with her brother, Carlos, and their family. Young readers can follow along as everyone gets ready to remember their loved ones who are no longer with them.
Vibrant illustrations will express the festive, yet poignant,...
Cristina is excited to celebrate Día de los Muertos with her brother, Carlos, and their family. Young readers can follow along as everyone gets ready to remember their loved ones who are no longer with them.
Vibrant illustrations will express the festive, yet poignant,...
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Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and...
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The British Museum
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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E. A. Wallis translated and transcribed this work. The Book of the Dead is the name given the ancient Egyptian funeral text "The Book of Coming or Going Forth By Day". The book details the Egyptian view of the afterlife. Included are spells, hymns and instructions for the dead to pass through obstacles in the afterlife. This papyrus scroll was placed in the coffin of the deceased. The Book of the Dead was first thought to be a Bible but is it not...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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When Alex Sennefer's mother uses the Lost Spells from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to bring her son from the brink of dying, she also brings back five Death Walkers, leaving Alex and his best friend to find his mother and save the world.
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The "book of the dead" is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace-not only personally and professionally, but geographically. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which...
12) The book of the dead: the hieroglyphic transcript and translation into English of the Papyrus of Ani
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Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Español
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Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy until he is rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The reason: Harry Potter is a wizard.
17) La reina del sur
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When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to survive.
"Sonó el teléfono y supo que la iban a matar. Lo supo con tanta certeza que se quedó inmóvil, la cuchilla en alto, el cabello pegado a la cara entre el vapor del agua caliente que goteaba en los azulejos. Bip-bip....
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