And for a better view of Hatshepsut, read Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge, splendid and lush.Īlso excellent is Nick Drake's trilogy with detective Rai Rahotep of Thebes: Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead, Tutankamun: The Book of Shadows and Egypt: The Book of Chaos. Written in the '50s for a YA audience, not only is it a wonderful story-atmospheric, romantic, thrilling-but Mara is a fine feminist role model for girls. Mara is a brave and feisty slave who becomes a double spy during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut. One of my favorite Ancient Egypt books is the marvelous Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw.
(The neon station sign has been amended to read King Tut Street Station.) It is quite magnificent. He wasn't dreaming: the 28-foot-tall statue was being ferried to Seattle's King Street Station, to stand guard while the Tutankhamen exhibit runs at the Pacific Science Center. There seemed to be a giant statue of the Egyptian god Anubis moving slowly up the canal. And to some, you?re worth more dead than alive.Early one May morning, my husband was walking near the Ship Canal that joins Lake Union and Puget Sound, when he did a double take. Because in this new, devastated world, every life has a price. And they?re determined to find it?if they can stay alive.
Worse yet, it?s mutating, and all evidence suggests that it will bring humanity to its knees.Mark and Trina are convinced there?s a way to save those left living from descending into madness.
Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there?s something suspicious about its origin. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease.Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived.
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