Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt

5 best books like Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (Nina Burleigh): Elective Affinities, A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller, The Masqueraders, The Murder of King Tut, Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy

Elective Affinities

Author	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN	0192837761

Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters...

A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

Author	Frances Mayes
ISBN	0767910060

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA

A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. With her beloved...

The Masqueraders

Author	Georgette Heyer
ISBN	0373836066

Prudence and Robin Tremaine, are children of the notorious and brilliant Viscount of Barham, find themselves on the wrong side of the Jacobite rebellion. The brothers have been dissemblers since they were children. And in this age of slippery politics, they need to be. Their infamous adventurer father...

The Murder of King Tut

Author	James Patterson
ISBN	0316034045

A secret buried for centuries

Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine...

Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy

Author	Dan Abrams
ISBN	1335016449

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Mental Floss Book to Read in Summer 2019

"Gripping.... Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense is a must-read." --NPR

A President on Trial. A Reputation at Stake.

ABC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams reveals the story...