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From the first kings of the Nile to the modern republic: the complete story of Egypt in one illustrated volume.For more than five thousand years, a single river has shaped one of the longest-running stories on Earth. EGYPT follows that story from the farming villages of the Nile Valley, through the pyramid builders and the empire of the pharaohs, to the Greek, Roman, Christian, Islamic and Ottoman worlds, and on to the modern republic.Along the way you will meet Imhotep and...

BE EMPOWERED!Bright Star Kaleidoscope Story for children is all about being empowered to be your true self and follow your dreams and aspirations!Finding your joy, discovering who you are, and knowing you can achieve anything with determination and self-belief. Children are taken on a magical adventure into their imagination as they travel with Little Star, and experience all of the inspiring and uplifting messages woven throughout the journey. Bright Star is 100% story med...

From the first colonies to the present day: the story of the United States in one illustrated volume.AMERICA follows the nation from the Native peoples and English settlers of the colonial era through the Revolution, the Constitution, the Civil War, two world wars, the Cold War and the early twenty-first century. It is a story of presidents and founders, generals and inventors, reformers and ordinary families.You will stand in the Assembly Room at Independence Hall, at Sara...

From a small island in a lake to the greatest city in the Americas, and the siege that ended it: the complete story of the Mexica in one illustrated volume."Aztec" is the name the modern world gave them. They called themselves Mexica, and from their island capital of Tenochtitlan they and their allies in Texcoco and Tlacopan built the Triple Alliance, a tribute empire that stretched across central and southern Mexico. AZTEC follows the story from the long migration and the founding...

One call. Twelve murders. One clue a day.A telephone rings in a rain-soaked Manhattan office on Halloween night, 1965. The caller promises twelve deaths between now and Christmas, and one clue each day to stop them.Dominic Kerrigan, a former homicide detective turned private eye, has spent years trying to forget the case that ended his career. Now a stranger on the line knows his name, his number, and what he did. The clues are fair. The killer keeps his word. And the twelv...

A third-century source named Aksum beside Rome, Persia and China among the great kingdoms of the world, and then it slipped out of most histories. From a highland capital in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea, Aksum minted gold coins, raised some of the tallest single-stone monuments of the ancient world, wrote in Ge'ez, Greek and South Arabian, and took a leading part in the Red Sea trade between Africa, Arabia and India.This illustrated history follows the evidence from the first h...

Two sons. Two sides. One night in Prague.Ohio, January 1968. Danny Marsh is eighteen, with a draft card in his wallet and a pen pal in Moscow he has never met. For five years Alyosha Voronin and he have written letters that say everything except what matters. Then Prague wakes up, the spring of reform begins, and both boys are handed a reason to go.By summer, an old spymaster wants a favor, a student translator holds a secret in her head, and a letter from a grandmother Dan...

Most histories of Australia begin in 1788. The people who lived on this continent had already been here for tens of thousands of years, through ice ages, rising seas and the loss of giant animals, and their cultures are living today.This illustrated history follows the evidence from the ancient continent of Sahul to the arrival of ships: the first crossings, the oldest archaeological sites, kinship and law, homes and food, languages, astronomy, fish traps and fire management, tools...

A new name. An old secret. A postcard with no stamp.Ohio, February 1963. Thirteen-year-old Danny Marsh has a new name, a new school, a new bus route and a made-up hometown. He is not supposed to remember who he used to be. The Central Intelligence Agency promised his family a quiet life, and for a few weeks it almost works.Then a postcard arrives with no stamp, addressed to a name nobody has called him in ten years. A boy on the other side of the world begins to write him l...

From a wolf-suckled myth on the banks of the Tiber to the fall of Constantinople two thousand years later: the complete story of Rome in one illustrated volume.SPQR tells the whole arc, not just the highlight reel. It follows the Republic that conquered a sea, the emperors who inherited it, and the slow, uneven collapse that followed, then keeps going to trace the Eastern Empire that carried the Roman name for another thousand years.You will meet Romulus, Hannibal, Scipio, ...

There was never one Native America. There were, and are, hundreds of nations, each with its own language, government, homeland and history. This illustrated volume tells their story from the first peoples to the 575 federally recognized tribal nations of today.The book begins with the mound builders of Poverty Point, Adena, Hopewell and Cahokia and the great houses of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. It then travels through the homelands of the Arctic, Northwest Coast, California, the ...

Spells can be lost to time, but magic is never truly forgotten.For fans of Outlander and A Discovery of Witches, with the atmospheric appeal of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Forgotten Magic Trilogy blends Celtic folklore, historical fantasy, and time travel romance.Helen Kent never dares to step outside her comfort zone. She lives a lonely life in the city, grinding through her uninspiring marketing job. ...