Ancient Egypt
The Sekhmet Bed
Amonhotep left only daughters of royal blood, and Egypt never before had a woman pharaoh. When political expediency made the…
Egypt: The Book of Chaos
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Tutankhamun is dead and his queen, Ankhesenamun, has married Ay, who is now old and ailing and not likely to…
Whispers in the Sand
After a 14-year stint as a trophy wife, Anna Fox is recently divorced and at loose ends. Her great-aunt Phyllis…
The King’s Man
With The King’s Man, Pauline Gedge concludes her trilogy begun in The Twice Born and Seer of Egypt about enigmatic…
Lights on the Nile
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Lights on the Nile is the newest title in Donna Jo Napoli’s growing list of fairy tale retellings. Many of…
Queen of Kings
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The passionate, tangled, and tragic story of Cleopatra and Marc Antony receives a new and surprising twist in this engrossing…
The Double Crown
Following coincidentally upon the recent republication of Pauline Gedge’s Child of the Morning (see HNR, Aug. 2010, p.19), this is…
Egyptian Dawn
The author is well known for his television documentaries which challenge various widely accepted views on early Egyptian history. Here,…
Sphinx’s Queen
Nefertiti, the famous Queen of Egypt, is a young girl forced to escape the Crown Prince, a man she was…
Cleopatra: A Life
Myths and legends abound about Cleopatra. Historian Stacy Schiff carefully prepares readers about what a difficult task her biography entailed,…
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