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Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Topic
Egypt | Pharaohs
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Main Character
Woman/Women
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Bull of Min (The She-King #4)

Author: Hawker, Libbie | Ironside, L.M.Part of a Series: She-King

“I know,” Satiah called. Her voice was musical, light, confident as a king’s. “It’s the Bull of Min you remember, Thutmose. You remember, and you fear.”

Conspiracy and treason simmer in the northern reaches of the Two Lands. Thutmose is crippled by guilt over past wrongs. Hatshepsut is subdued by the grief of betrayal and loss. Meryet, the new Great Royal Wife, is the sole force holding the royal family – and Egypt – together.

When an unexpected challenger to the succession arises, all three are faced with impossible choices. To protect what she most loves, Meryet will match wits against a demon from the past. Hatshepsut stands on the brink of the ultimate sacrifice. And Thutmose, torn between throne and family, must commit an unthinkable act against Hatshepsut…or allow Egypt to fall into the hands of an unpredictable killer.

This novella (about 130 pages) is the final volume of The She-King, L.M. Ironside’s saga of the Thutmosides of ancient Egypt.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Topic
Egypt | Intrigue | Pharaohs
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
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Storm in the Sky (The Book of Coming Forth by Day #2)

Author: Hawker, LibbiePart of a Series: Book of Coming Forth by Day

Libbie Hawker’s saga of Amarna-era Egypt, The Book of Coming Forth by Day, continues in Part 2: Storm in the Sky.

By sheer force of the Pharaoh’s will, the City of the Sun rises from hot, barren sands. But as this monument to his strength flourishes, the king’s ties to sanity begin to fray. His religious zeal and unchecked power lead him to commit one atrocity after another, and soon those who dwell in the throne’s shadows must enter into a fatal conspiracy to prevent Egypt from crumbling altogether.

Nefertiti believes she has found a way to repay her father for his many wrongdoings. But her vengeance will cost what she holds most dear. Tiy, cast off from the court but still grappling for power, re-emerges to face the Pharaoh with a weapon unlike any he has encountered before. The burden of the throne’s security falls on young Baketaten—but she is not as fragile as she seems, and she will play a deadly game of deception to obtain what Egypt needs most: an heir to the throne. And Horemheb, tormented by love for a woman he can never have, will risk his own damnation when he swears to avenge an unimaginable loss.

The corrupted court of Akhenaten’s Egypt comes to life in this epic novel of secrets and intrigue.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Topic
Egypt | Egyptian Mythology | Heirs | Romance
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
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Sekhmet Bed (The She-King #1)

Author: Hawker, Libbie | Ironside, L.M.Part of a Series: She-King

Queen Ahmose knows her duty: to give the Pharaoh a son. But she is young, and has just watched her closest friend die in childbirth. If the Pharaoh plants his seed in her she will die the same way, in a pool of blood, surrounded by wailing women. She has her husband’s love, but a king must have an heir…and even the Pharaoh’s patience will run out. Meanwhile, a lesser queen – Ahmose’s own sister – has given him three sweet, bright children, all of them boys. Ahmose knows her grasp on the Pharaoh’s heart is loosening.

Desperate, she begs the gods for courage to become a mother. They give her more than courage: she is granted a vision of a shining prince, her son – a gift for Egypt who will bring glory to the land. He will be more than the son of a king. He will be the son of the god Amun.

But when the child arrives, it’s a girl.

Ahmose knows the vision was not wrong. Her daughter Hatshepsut has a male soul, and Amun intends the girl to rule. But the Pharaoh will not scandalize Egypt by proclaiming a female successor. If she cannot convince the Pharaoh to accept Hatshepsut as his heir, everything Ahmose loves will be destroyed. ~Stephanie Dray, author of the critically acclaimed Lily of the Nile

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Topic
Culture and Traditions | Egypt | Egyptian Mythology
Main Character
Woman/Women
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Crook and Flail (The She-King #2)

Author: Hawker, Libbie | Ironside, L.M.Part of a Series: She-King

The son of the god must take her rightful place on Egypt’s throne.

Hatshepsut longs for power, but she is constrained by her commitment to maat – the sacred order of righteousness, the way things must be. Her mother claims Hatshepsut is destined for Egypt’s throne – not as the king’s chief wife, but as the king herself, despite her female body. But a woman on the throne defies maat, and even Hatshepsut is not so bold as to risk the safety of the Two Lands for her own ends.

As God’s Wife of Amun, she believes she has found the perfect balance of power and maat, and has reconciled herself to contentment with her station. But even that peace is threatened when the powerful men of Egypt plot to replace her. They see her as nothing but a young woman, easily used for their own ends and discarded. But she is the son of the god Amun, and neither her strength nor her will can be so easily discounted.

As the machinations of politics drive her into the hands of enemies and the arms of lovers, onto the battlefield and into the childbed, she comes face to face with maat itself – and must decide at last whether to surrender her birthright to a man, or to take up the crook and flail of the Pharaoh, and claim for herself the throne of the king.

L. M. Ironside’s saga of the Thutmoside dynasty continues with The Crook and Flail, the anticipated sequel to The Sekhmet Bed.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical | Mythology

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Topic
Culture and Traditions | Egypt | Egyptian Mythology | Kings and Queens
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Sovereign of Stars (The She-King #3)

Author: Hawker, Libbie | Ironside, L.M.Part of a Series: She-King

Hatshepsut has fulfilled her divine destiny and taken the Pharaoh’s throne. But she knows her position is precarious. In all Egypt’s long history, never has a woman ruled as king — and Hatshepsut must use all the cleverness and bravery at her disposal to keep the reins of power from tangling in her fist.

As she wrestles with foreign enemies and domestic politics, her heart becomes ever more troubled. Her daughter Neferure, distant and strange since infancy, is chosen by one goddess in particular: Hathor, the Sovereign of Stars, she who wears seven faces — and not all her faces are gentle.

Her fight to retain her hold on power, peace, and Neferure will carry her on an incomparable journey from Egypt’s Black Land across the deadly heat of the Red Land, over the sea to the legendary kingdom of Punt. There, in the god’s own valley, she must confront the bleakness of fate, the totality of loss, and the terrifying frailty of eternity.

L. M. Ironside’s celebrated saga of the Thutmosides continues with Book Three: Sovereign of Stars.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grades and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Date
BC
Topic
Egypt | Pharaohs
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

House of Rejoicing (The Book of Coming Forth by Day #1)

Author: Hawker, LibbiePart of a Series: Book of Coming Forth by Day

House of Rejoicing is Libbie Hawker’s long-awaited return to the lush decadence and dark power of ancient Egypt.

In the waning years of Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty, when female power can only come at an unsettling price, four royal women struggle against the shadowy influence of Akhenaten, the infamous heretic Pharaoh. Akhenaten wields control of a strange, emerging religion unlike anything Egypt has seen. His power can’t be denied, but whoever can maintain her grip on the unpredictable Pharaoh will hold all of Egypt in her hands—and better still, will remain mistress of her own fate.

Tiy, once the undisputed might behind the throne, must choose to relinquish her hard-won influence, or manipulate the innocent in order to secure her hold on Akhenaten’s leash. Kiya, an idealistic foreign princess, will win Akhenaten with love—if he’s capable of feeling love at all. The celebrated beauty Nefertiti will use the Pharaoh for her own ends, turning the tables of a deadly political game to free herself from her ambitious father’s grasp. And Sitamun, kept imprisoned as the Pharaoh’s plaything, will defy the gods themselves to save her daughter from a similar fate.

House of Rejoicing is the first part in Libbie Hawker’s new ancient Egyptian series, The Book of Coming Forth by Day. The story will continue in Part Two, Storm in the Sky, in July of 2015.

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Recommended for 9-12 Grades and Adult

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Date
BC
Topic
Biography | Cleopatra | Kings and Queens
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Main Character
Woman/Women
Format
Book | Ebook

Cleopatra, Daughter of the Nile

Author: Falconer, Colin

Formerly published as WHEN WE WERE GODS, this edition has been revised and edited.

It takes the reader inside the walls of Alexandria’s great palaces, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman who thrived and triumphed in a world ruled by men.

Cleopatra VII of Egypt was barely more than a girl when she inherited the richest empire in the world – one that stretched from the scorching deserts of lower Egypt to the shining Mediterranean metropolis of Alexandria with its famed library and lighthouse. Imperiled at every turn by court conspiracies and Roman treachery, the young Queen was forced to flee Alexandria and live in exile while a foreign army overran her city and her own family plotted her downfall.

With nothing to lose, Cleopatra sought a partnership with the only man who could secure Egypt’s safety: Julius Caesar, a wily politician and battle-hardened general with a weakness for women. The result was a passionate love affair that scandalized Rome and thrust Cleopatra into a world of deadly intrigue played for the very highest stakes – a world she would continue to mesmerize and manipulate even after Caesar was gone.

At the height of her power and fame, Cleopatra fell in love with Caesar’s successor, Marc Antony, a general known as much for his drunken hedonism as his victories in battle. Brash, irresistible and fatally unreliable Antony’s once-strong hold on the Roman empire soon slips away, and with it Cleopatra’s fortunes.

When the tide finally turns against her she plots a last, spectacular manoeuvre to save her children, her empire, and her place among the gods.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 3-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Classics | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Topic
Animals | Cats | Culture and Traditions | Egypt
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Format
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Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt

Author: Henty, G. A.

The sacred cat of Bubastes has accidentally been slain; now young Chebron must pay for the offense with his own life, as this is the law of the Pagans in Egypt, 1250 BC. Chebron, the son of a high Egyptian priest, flees for his life taking his sister Mysa, one of the household slaves Amuba and several companions with him. They escape through closely guarded Egyptian exits only to find themselves in unfamiliar and dangerous lands inhabited by a very different culture of people. Along the way, the roving band of refugees encounters and befriends a Hebrew girl, who exposes them to very strange ideas including the worship of “one true God.”

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Lexile/Reading Level
650L

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Topic
Egypt | Mummies | Pyramids
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Format
Book | Ebook

Mummies and Pyramids (Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #3)

Author: Osborne, WillPart of a Series: Magic Tree House Fact Tracker

Magic Tree House Research Guides are now Magic Tree House Fact Trackers! Track the facts with Jack and Annie!

When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning, they had lots of questions. Why did people make mummies? What was the mysterious writing on mummy cases? How did most ancient Egyptians spend their days? How were the pyramids built? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.

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Lexile/Reading Level
1110L Recommended for 5-9 Grades

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction | Technology

Historical Time Period
Ancient Egypt
Date
BC
Topic
Architecture | Culture and Traditions | Death and Loss
Geographic Region
Africa | Egypt
Award-Winning Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award | Nominee
Format
Book | Ebook

Pyramid

Author: Macaulay, David

Through concise text and richly detailed black and white illustrations we come to know the philosophy of life and death in ancient Egypt.

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