Books like Sphinx by Robert M. McClung

Joseph J. Ellis’s *American Sphinx* offers a balanced portrait of Thomas Jefferson, drawing on archival evidence to chart his retreat from public life, his famed Monticello estate, and his enduring mythic status.

The curse of Pharaoh Sinus Nefertop is upon Blotto so it's up to Twinks to banish it! Yet another financial crisis at Tawcester Towers! So this time the Dowager Duchess decides to sell off the less important family possessions, which have, for a long time, been consigned to the attics of the ancestral home. Blotto and Twinks are dispatched to help the valuer as he carries out an inspection. Not much of any worth is found but then the valuer spies some Egyptian artifacts, collected by the tenth duke, Rupert the Egyptologist. In some excitement he rushes back to London to consult his reference books, leaving Blotto and Twinks alone in the attic, where they are drawn to a sarchophagus decorated with hieroglyphs. Twinks starts to translate: 'Anyone who desecrates this shrine will be visited by the Pharoah's curse ... ' - just as Blotto prises the lid off. From that moment on a series of unpleasant incidents start happening at Tawcester Towers but it is only when the Dowager Duchess' precious pug is struck down with a stomach bug that she instructs her son to sort things out and stop the accelerating sequence of disasters. It's the brainy Twinks who decide the only thing to be done is to put the genie back in the bottle and so she, together with Blotto and their trusty chauffeur Corky Froggett, undertake to take the sarcophagus back to Egypt, to the Valley of the Kings as only when this is done will the effect of the Pharoah's curse be lifted.

A rare black cheetah named Kichebo, an outcast among her kin, possesses powerful telepathy and time‑travel abilities that let her glimpse the mind of Tutankhamen’s favorite felid, Asu‑Kheknemt, while safeguarding a fragile human infant she has adopted.

Two uplifting tales of Yehoshuah, a humble carpenter’s son, as he befriends a camel and meets a mystic Sphinx in the Egyptian desert.

A vivid guide for young readers that traces the life cycle of butterflies, from egg to caterpillar, through chrysalis, and into the final fluttering form.