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The Heretic's Treasure
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Scott Mariani |
An ancient fortune has lain hidden for thousands of years, one so powerful that men will kill to protect it. And only one man can unearth it... |
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Midaq Alley
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Naguib Mahfouz |
Centers around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo. |
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The golden scales
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Parker Bilal |
"The ancient city of Cairo is a feverish tangle of the old and the new, of the superrich and the desperately poor, with inequality and corruption everywhere. It's a place where grudges and long-burie… |
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Friendly fire
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ʻAlāʼ Aswānī |
A collection of short stories, which focuses on the minute stitches of pain that hold together an individual, a family, a school classroom, or the relationship between a man and a woman. Readers will… |
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Metro
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Majdī Shāfiʻī |
When Shihab runs afoul of a loan shark, all avenues of salvation in Mubarak's corrupt, oppressive Egypt are closed to him but one: robbing a bank. Things go wrong: In their blow against their crumbli… |
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Thieves fall out
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Gore Vidal |
Follows the exploits of a down-on-his-luck American as he tries to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo during a time of revolution.
In 1953, Vidal had already begun writing the works that would la… |
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The Cairo affair
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Olen Steinhauer |
"Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cair… |
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Our horses in Egypt
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Rosalind Belben |
"Philomena is requisitioned from a Dorset field in 1914 and serves with the yeomanry in Egypt and Palestine until the end of the First World War. But she doesn't come back to England : thousands of B… |
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The Angel of History
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Rabih Alameddine |
The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy fat… |
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Hounds and jackals
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Barbara Wood |
Lydia Harris's search for her sister, Adele, and an explanation of a mysterious ivory jackal gamepiece her sister has sent her, leads from Rome to Cairo and finally to the pharaohs' tombs in the Vall… |
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The Mamur Zapt and the spoils of Egypt
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Michael Pearce |
The (Welsh) Gareth Owen is the Mamur Zapt in the British administration of Egypt, dealing with the political issues of various laws and crimes. Currently he is dealing with the difference between plu… |
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Resurrection
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Tucker Malarkey |
A lost past. A hidden Gospel. A shocking discovery.It's 1948, and British nurse Gemma Bastian travels to Cairo to close the affairs of her late father, staying at the home of David Lazar, her father'… |
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Palace circle
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Rebecca Dean |
Palace intrigue, romance, and illicit affairs--Rebecca Dean has written a glorious novel that will sweep Philippa Gregory fans off their feet.Delia Chandler, an eighteen-year-old Southern girl, marri… |
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