Gordon Griffin
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English
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"Detective Arieh-Ben Roi of the Jerusalem police investigates the murder of a well-known Israeli journalist and, with the help of Luxor police detective Yusuf Khalifa, discovers a connection to the mysterious death of a 1930s Egyptologist, who had claimed to have uncovered a labyrinth of unfathomable treasures."--From Novelist.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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The story of Robin of Locksley, outlaw of Sherwood Forest, telling how he gathered such loyal followers as Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Allan a Dale, and relating their adventures in the service of Richard the Lion-Hearted.
3) Raven black
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Long a celebrated crime writer in Britain, Ann Cleeves' fame went international when she won the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger for this amazing suspense novel, Raven Black. Like Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse or Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks, Cleeves' new detective, Inspector Jimmy Perez, is a very private and perceptive man whose bailiwick is a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep...
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English
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In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa-only for the entire force to be overwhelmed by a sandstorm and lost forever.
Two and a half millennia later, a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor; an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo; and a British archaeologist is found dead at an ancient necropolis of Saqqara.
The incidents appear unconnected,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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With an all-new illustrations, experience this classic pioneering tale of science fiction by H.G. Wells.
West Sussex. A mysterious man in a long-sleeved trench coat, gloves, and a wide-brimmed hat arrives at Mr. and Mrs. Hall's inn. His face is almost entirely concealed (much like most of his personality and identity), except for a fake pink nose. He keeps to himself, working in his rooms during the day, only leaving at night.
Griffin's peculiar...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by
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Shetland mysteries volume 2
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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The launch of an exhibition at the Herring House art gallery is disturbed by a stranger who bursts into tears, then claims not to remember who he is or where he comes from. The next day he's found dead.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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The Independent called it 'The intelligent reader's answer to the Da Vinci Code': When the body of hotel owner Piet Jansen is discovered amid the ruins of an archaeological site by the Nile, it looks like a routine investigation for Inspector Yusuf Khalifa.But the more he learns about Jansen, the more he is reminded of the brutal murder, some years earlier, of an Israeli woman at Karnak for which he always suspected the wrong man was convicted. Ignoring...
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Shetland mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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In the aftermath of a young archaeologist's discovery of human remains that may be modern, Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate a case that is further complicated by the subsequent murder of an elderly woman.
12) Winter in Madrid
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2006
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English
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In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, reluctant British Secret Service spy Harry Brett investigates a shadowy Madrid businessman whose girlfriend would prevent a former lover from joining the communist cause.