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6) The skin map
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kit Livingstone learns that Britain's "ley lines" are not legends but pathways to other worlds, he's determined to find a map tattooed on a piece of skin in order to travel to the dangerous realms. But are the intricate codes more than they seem--can they really begin a quest to regain paradise?
Author
Series
Bright Empires novel volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kit Livingstone is on the run, hunted by the Burley Men, as he tries to piece together a map that reveals the hidden dimensions of the multiverse. Kit, however, is not the only one traveling through time and space to influence the future of the future.
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Kit, Mina, Gianni, Cass, Haven, and Giles have gathered in Minas 16th century coffee house and are united in their determination to find a path back to the Spirit Well. Yet, with their shadow lamps destroyed and key pieces of the map still missing, the journey will be far more difficult than they imagine. And when one of their own disappears with Sir Henrys cryptic Green Book, they no longer know who to trust.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Language
English
Description
Explores the period between the 16th and 19th centuries in Japan by examining the lives of shoguns, samurais, geishas, and the very few westerners allowed into Japan . Japan was then a world unto itself, closed to outsiders, and ruled by shoguns with absolute control. During this period, Japan transitioned from chaos and violence to a land of ritual refinement and peace.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mesopotamia is often considered the origin of civilization. Nestled on the Fertile Crescent, this empire created the first system of writing and improved farming and livestock so that specialization was possible.
13) The spirit well
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The search for the map-and the secret behind its cryptic code-intensifies in a quest across time, space, and multiple realities.
Author
Series
Echoes and empires volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Snarky seventeen-year-old Josslyn Drake gets infected by a dangerous piece of forbidden magic and teams up with wanted criminal Jericho Nox to remove the spell corrupting her soul.
Josslyn Drake knows only three things about magic: it is rare, illegal, and always deadly. Then she is caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the Queen's Gala and infected by a dangerous piece of magic-- one that allows her to step into the memories of an infamously evil...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Majestic pyramids, frightful mummies, intricate hieroglyphics, and vivid tomb paintings carry the echoes of ancient Egypt through thousands of years into the present. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematical or STEM achievements lay at the heart of the Egyptians' grandeur. Their brilliant use of basic tools and machines in massive construction projects, the preservation of human remains, and agricultural inventions that remain useful in...
16) The fatal tree
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" What do you do when you're faced with The End of Everything? The evidence is compelling; not only is The End of Everything approaching, it's approaching rapidly. Desperation sends the Questors to the four corners of the universe in search of answers.Tony and Gianni are in Rome gathering additional data on the collapse of the universe, and Haven and Giles are captured by Huns and taken to Byzantium. Mina travels to Egypt to recruit Dr. Thomas Young,...
17) The Spirit Well
Author
Series
Bright Empires novel volume 3
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Search for the Map-and the secret behind its cryptic code-intensifies in a quest across time, space, and multiple realities. But what if the true treasure isn't the map at all . . . what if the map marks something far greater? Something one world cannot contain? Those who desire to unlock that mystery are in a race to possess the secret-for good or evil. Kit Livingstone is mastering the ability to travel across realities using ley lines and has...
Author
Series
Kingdoms and empires volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bronte is ten years old when she receives a letter saying that her long-absent parents have been killed by pirates, and the lawyers tell her that their will (reinforced with serious magic) requires her to deliver gifts to her ten other aunts (not Aunt Isabelle, whom she lives with), and to start the trip immediately and alone--but as she travels the kingdoms, she begins to suspect that there is more to this journey than delivering treasures, and that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Egypt has seen the rise and fall of many great empires. Discover the pyramids, papyrus, and pharaohs described in detail with sidebars and full color photographs. Learn about the religions, cultures, and achievements of the ancient Egyptians"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
A bright empires novel volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Kit, Mina, Gianni, Cass, Haven, and Giles have gathered in Minas 16th century coffee house and are united in their determination to find a path back to the Spirit Well. Yet, with their shadow lamps destroyed and key pieces of the map still missing, the journey will be far more difficult than they imagine. And when one of their own disappears with Sir Henrys cryptic Green Book, they no longer know who to trust.