Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code in this Tom Clancy-Dan Brown style thriller. Can a long-dead Pharaoh travel through time to warn a 21st century civilization of impending disaster? Is time travel possible via reincarnation? Is it possible to remember past lives? Have we all lived before? Are there warnings and messages contained in our genetic code? These mysteries and more are explored when Sean and Corinne meet in a prestigious Washington, DC, watering hole. Corinne is a human genome analyst on the verge of discovering the key to the future. Is it immortality or the gene-splice that leads to a super-race of human beings? Sean is a DHS national-threat analyst on the trail of a merciless killer who is targeting scientists and prominent members of the government. From the moment they meet, these two know their destinies are linked. Sean and Corinne attend a secret meeting held in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution. The meeting is sponsored by a quasi-secret society of leading scientists called The League of Red-Headed Men. The League is determined to save the planet from a consortium of inept government leaders and corrupt billionaire industrialists. The meeting is focused on the amazing Necropolis found beneath the Great Pyramid. The Ancients have left a secret message in the hieroglyphics on the wall of the tomb. The Necropolis of Atlantis is 10,000 years old and contains the mummies of the pharaohs. But before the pharaoh’s hidden message can be deciphered and revealed, the US Government stages a security crack down and arrests the attendees. Sean and Corinne barely escape the crack down but now they are on the run. Who will catch them first—the government’s secret agents or a cold-hearted, greedy billionaire industrialist? They must get to the Great Pyramid to uncover the pharaoh’s truth, but the chase will take them across Europe and the Mid East—from Washington, to London, to Spain, to a science ship in the Mediterranean, and ultimately, to Cairo. An act of explosive sabotage traps them beneath the Great Pyramid with no way out. Now they know the pharaoh’s secret, but will the secret die with them buried beneath the Saharan Desert or will they live to alert the world to the coming Life Extinguishing Event that is hovering like the Sword of Damocles above humanity’s head? Will the Pharaoh’s warning be heeded? Is our civilization lost? Will our heroes fail? Will the pharaoh’s secret remain buried? Has time run out? Follow Corinne and Sean to the end and learn the shocking truth.

One of the best-loved of mystery writers weaves another tale of intrigue featuring Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe of Crocodile on the Sandbank. This time the willful and witty duo must catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient Egyptian tomb.

The crash of Pharaoh's colossal statue into a throng of worshippers brings the festival of the good god Ptah of Memphis to a sudden, bloody end. Prince Khay, the High Priest, barely escaped being killed, himself. He finds clues in the wreckage that show that the disaster was deliberately set. Now he is confronted with questions that grow more alarming with every answer he finds as the great temple of Ptah is rocked by a chilling series of murders. Increasingly entangled in clues that lead to even more mysteries, convinced that the gods themselves are taking a hand in the disaster, he appeals to Pharaoh for help and is sent a powerful ally in his eldest brother Hori, Egypt's Crown Prince, whose courage and resourcefulness are surpassed only by his bluntness. The brothers fight against time as they try to unravel the mystery, knowing that there is more at stake than treasure, and the forfeit is greater than a man's life. Something great and terrible is stirring, something they must find, hidden deep within the temple, something they must bring into the light before those who walk in darkness take it and turn it to evil. PHARAOH'S SON is a historical novel set during the golden years of Ramesses the Great. It is a tale of murder, intrigue and hidden treasure that reaches back into Egypt's heresy-shrouded past.

Cigars of the Pharaoh is one of Tintin’s earliest adventures. This story was written in 1932, but in the ‘50s was shortened and rewritten. In this facsimile edition, it appears as it did 70 years ago. Tintin and Snowy are on a cruise to Egypt when they happen to meet Professor Sophocles Sarcophagus (the first of Tintin’s absent-minded professors) and join his expedition. But they become embroiled in a complicated scheme involving a fakir, cigars marked with an unusual brand, and Rajijah, the poison of madness. Most significantly, Tintin meets the detectives Thompson and Thomson as well as the movie mogul Rastapopolous.

This 2006 hardcover reissue of Cigars of the Pharaoh is a must for the Tintin completist. It's a black-and-white facsimile edition of the story as it appeared in the 1930s, before Herge revised, shortened, and redrew it to for the style of the later adventures. So it's 129 pages compared to the standard 62, though the larger panels mean it isn't really twice as long as the familiar version. But there are noticeable differences. The detectives Thompson and Thomson call themselves X33 and X33A, frequent nemesis Captain Allan is no longer involved, and when Tintin is forced to enlist, rather than happening in Abudin, it's in Mecca in the middle of a Christian-Muslim dispute. The anachronistic glimpse of Destination Moon is now gone, replaced by the more logical Tintin in America, and most interestingly, Tintin encounters additional perils (two involving cobras) while on the trail of the fakir. When he revised Cigars in the 1950s, Herge left pretty much all of the story intact, but his layouts and storytelling were vastly improved. If you've read all the standard Tintin adventures, this is fascinating stuff. --David Horiuchi

The year is 1976. After she kept running away from her foster family, Rebecca comes to live with her Aunt Mary. In the small cluster of houses that is Hopeton, the twins, Adam and Abel, and another girl, Jody, are her new neighbours. Rebecca persuades them to try running away - to stay with the twins' Uncle and Aunt who seem lovely, cool even, like the Italian families she used to run away to in London.

Over the four seasons of the year they keep trying, each time encountering new difficulties and a deepening mystery. Who is the master thief who seems intent on stealing Mrs Parson's Pharaoh's Stone? Is this the same person as the police are hunting - notorious gangster, Bury 'em Joe? And what exactly is the truth about the powers of the Pharaoh's Stone itself?

In the end, will the children find all the answers? One thing is sure: they will find out more about Italians!

The year is 1976. After she kept running away from her foster family, Rebecca comes to live with her Aunt Mary. In the small cluster of houses that is Hopeton, the twins, Adam and Abel, and another girl, Jody, are her new neighbours. Rebecca persuades them to try running away - to stay with the twins' Uncle and Aunt who seem lovely, cool even, like the Italian families she used to run away to in London.

Over the four seasons of the year they keep trying, each time encountering new difficulties and a deepening mystery. Who is the master thief who seems intent on stealing Mrs Parson's Pharaoh's Stone? Is this the same person as the police are hunting - notorious gangster, Bury 'em Joe? And what exactly is the truth about the powers of the Pharaoh's Stone itself?

In the end, will the children find all the answers? One thing is sure: they will find out more about Italians!

Three classic graphic novels in one deluxe hardcover edition: Tintin in America, Cigars of the Pharaoh, and The Blue Lotus.

A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments

• Presents a stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statues of Ramses II and the tunnels of the Serapeum

• Reveals that highly refined tools and mega-machines were used in ancient Egypt

From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over Egypt, unique marks that reveal craftsmanship we would be hard pressed to duplicate today. Drawing together the results of more than 30 years of research and nine field study journeys to Egypt, Christopher Dunn presents a stunning stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statue of Ramses II at Luxor and the fallen crowns that lay at its feet. His modern-day engineering expertise provides a unique view into the sophisticated technology used to create these famous monuments in prehistoric times.

Using modern digital photography, computer-aided design software, and metrology instruments, Dunn exposes the extreme precision of these monuments and the type of advanced manufacturing expertise necessary to produce them. His computer analysis of the statues of Ramses II reveals that the left and right sides of the faces are precise mirror images of each other, and his examination of the mysterious underground tunnels of the Serapeum illuminates the finest examples of precision engineering on the planet. Providing never-before-seen evidence in the form of more than 280 photographs, Dunn’s research shows that while absent from the archaeological record, highly refined tools, techniques, and even mega-machines must have been used in ancient Egypt.

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.

In This Boy's Life Tobias Wolf created an unforgettable memoir of an American childhood. Now he gives us a precisely and sometimes pitilessly remembered account of his young manhood - a young manhood that become entangled in the tragic adventure that was Vietnam. Mordantly funny, searingly honest, In Pharoah's Army is a war memoir in the tradition of George Orwell and Michael Herr.