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The Book of the Dead is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child published on July 1, 2007, by Warner Books. This is the seventh book in the Special Agent Pendergast series. [ 1 ] Also, it is the third and final installment to the trilogy concentrating on Pendergast and his relationship with Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta in their pursuit to ...
Book of the Dead is a 2007 crime novel written by Patricia Cornwell. [1] It is the fifteenth book in the popular Kay Scarpetta series [ 2 ] and the fourth consecutive novel in the series to be written in third-person omniscient style, rather than Cornwell's traditional first-person narrative.
Consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife and written by many priests over a period of about 1,000 years. Karl Richard Lepsius introduced for these texts the German name Todtenbuch (modern spelling Totenbuch), translated to English as Book of the Dead.
Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, the Goldworker of Amun, 31.1777e, Brooklyn Museum. The dimensions of a Book of the Dead could vary widely; the longest is 40 m long while some are as short as 1 m. They are composed of sheets of papyrus joined together, the individual papyri varying in width from 15 cm to 45 cm.
Statue of H. P. Lovecraft, the author who created the Necronomicon as a fictional grimoire and featured it in many of his stories. The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of Kitab al-Azif, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers.
Amy Jacques Garvey also had written books regarding Pan-African, civil rights, and feminist movements. In Garvey's, "Women as Leaders", she mentions the importance of Black women's roles in society, and her writing serves as both a call to action and a celebration of women's capabilities in leadership positions.
The Book of the Dead, by American poet Muriel Rukeyser, published as Part 1 of her second volume, US 1 (1938) The QI Book of the Dead, the fourth tie-in book with the British television series QI; Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), a poem by William Gibson; Doktor Bey's Book of the Dead, 1981 book by Derek Pell; Left Ginza (part of the Ginza Rabba ...
Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others is a collection of memoirs by author E. Hoffmann Price. It was published in 2001 by Arkham House in an edition of approximately 4,000 copies. The book contains memoirs of several writers of the pulp magazine era. Also included are several appreciations of Price by other authors.