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"The Contessa's Legacy" is a novella by Nora D'Ecclesis. The book tells the story of a family living in Pompeii, Naples in 79AD. It follows the lives of the family members as the ancestors eventually immigrate to America, including their relationships with each other, and their struggles to survive in a society that was not known for treating its citizens with compassion.

Ehli-nikkalu, eldest daughter of the Hittite emperor, is married to a mere vassal of her father's. But despite her status, her foreignness and inability to produce an heir drive a wedge between her and the court that surrounds her. When her secretary is mysteriously murdered while carrying the emperor a message that would indict the loyalty of his vassal, Ehli-nikkalu adopts the dead man's orphaned children out of a guilty sense of responsibility.

È una donna, non più una bambina, e solo lui può aiutarla Britannia, 61 d.C. Le orde di Boudicca hanno invaso la pianura. Animata da un devastante desiderio di vendetta, la regina guerriera ha realizzato l’impossibile: unire tutte le tribù britanniche contro l’invasore romano. Ad assistere alla devastazione c’è un uomo. Osserva gli edifici in fiamme, aspira l’odore degli incendi, ascolta le grida disperate delle vittime. Impotente, solo, ha quasi dimenticato il suo vero nome ma non la missione che gli ha affidato l’imperatore cui deve fedeltà.

Into this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is no protection. The closer you are to the heart of the empire, the closer you are to power, intrigue, and danger. She faces soldiers, senators, rivals, silver-tongued pretenders, each vying for position. One mistake risks exile, incarceration, execution. Or, worst of all, the loss of her infant son.

When the immortal goddess Hera helps her brother Zeus to overthrow their tyrannical father, the ancient Titan Cronos, she dreams of ruling the world at his side. But as they establish their reign on Mount Olympus, Hera begins to see another side to Zeus, a side just as ruthless and cruel as Cronos was. She was clearly born to rule, but does that mean perpetuating a cycle of violence and cruelty that has existed since the dawn of time? Will assuming her power mean that Hera loses herself or can she find a way to forge a better world?

Et si la ​bibliothèque d'Alexandrie n'avait pas disparu... Plongez dans un passionnant roman historique grâce à la lecture enveloppante de Geert Van Herwijnen. 47 av. J.-C. César profite de la confusion générale à Alexandrie, en proie aux flammes, pour s'emparer de la bibliothèque, où toute la connaissance de l'humanité est consignée. Car posséder le savoir, se dit-il, c'est détenir le pouvoir absolu. L' imperator convoque une équipe de marins, de soldats et de savants capables d'accomplir cette entreprise périlleuse et folle : déplacer 700 000 ouvrages sans que personne le sache, dans un lieu lointain et invisible.

The story of Cleopatra's meeting with Julius Caesar and the betrayal to which the beautiful queen was exposed. When some tried to distort ancient Egyptian history, we had to know more and better about it than before.

Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as caretaker to the mischievous godlings who roam her banks. But when their antics incur the wrath of a powerful sage, Ganga is cursed to become mortal, bound to her human form until she fulfills the obligations of the curse. Though she knows nothing of mortal life, Ganga weds King Shantanu and becomes a queen, determined to regain her freedom no matter the cost. But in a cruel turn of fate, just as she is freed of her binding, she is forced to leave her infant son behind. Her son, prince Devavrata, unwittingly carries the legacy of Ganga’s curse.

Inanna is an impossibility. The first full Anunnaki born on Earth in Ancient Mesopotamia. Crowned the goddess of love by the twelve immortal Anunnaki who are worshipped across Sumer, she is destined for greatness. But Inanna is born into a time of war. The Anunnaki have split into warring factions, threatening to tear the world apart. Forced into a marriage to negotiate a peace, she soon realizes she has been placed in terrible danger.

Una fascinante intriga histórica ambientada en el reinado de Ramsés II y protagonizada por el enigmático príncipe Khamwaset, sacerdote, mago y considerado el primer egiptólogo de la historia. El joven sacerdote Ahmose, secretario del príncipe Khamwaset, encuentra un fragmento de un papiro en un patio del templo de Ptah en Men-Nefer. Inmediatamente se da cuenta de que es una fórmula para envenenar al toro sagrado Apis y avisa a su señor, hijo del faraón Ramsés II, sumo sacerdote de Ptah y gobernador de Men-Nefer, que está reunido con su padre cuando recibe la noticia.

Europe, 998 AD. Galen and Alcuin have finally escaped the clutches of the Moors. Now they're adrift in an unsettled continent where invasions, cults, plagues, drought and the looming millennium have upset the world order. Do these two young monks have what it takes to fulfil Alcuin's promise to get to Rome? The journey over the Pyrenees and across the Mediterranean isn't even the greatest challenge. Galen needs to decide whether he's a saint. Can he find the answer amongst the people he meets or will he have to look deeper within himself to find the truth?

A historically-based novel with authentic, legendary, and fictional characters interacting across the extraordinary panorama of the Bronze Age Collapse in the Hittite Empire between the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean seas. Diomedes, previously a hero of the Trojan War, and the polyglot Peoples of the Sea raid inland into the Hittite Empire during its final months. The tale is both a study of ancient mythic consciousness and an exciting adventure of love, character, destruction, desperate survival, and the lived mystery of pagan rituals.

Редкое обаяние сочеталось в ней с властностью, ораторское искусство — с волшебным голосом; она была прекрасно образованна и свободно говорила на многих языках. Жизнь Клеопатры, блистательной царицы Нила, рассказанная от первого лица, разворачивается на страницах дилогии Маргарет Джордж «Дневники Клеопатры» во всех подробностях — трагических и счастливых. В книге второй «Царица поверженная» героиня предстает человеком большой силы духа, умеющим с достоинством принимать неизбежное. После гибели Цезаря от рук заговорщиков Клеопатра возвращается в Александрию.

Por más de tres siglos la memoria oral de los moradores del Cabo de San Antonio ha mantenido vivas las leyendas que cuentan sobre míticos tesoros escondidos allí por antiguos navegantes. De todas ellas, quizás la más recurrente, es la que ofrece diferentes versiones sobre el paradero del tesoro y la cruz de la Catedral de Mérida, Yucatán, oculto en alguna cueva del Cabo de San Antonio, Cuba. Esta es la primera parte de un relato que recoge y entreteje estas y otras historias sacadas de ese anecdotario infinito que impregna la atmósfera de cada rincón del extremo occidental de la Isla de Cuba.

In a world where two civilizations collide, the Aztec Empire is in turmoil as they face invasion from an advanced people. Their Emperor, Tzontettica Yaotl, has heard rumors about an artifact that may be their only chance to turn the tide of the impending battle, but its location is uncertain and it might be lost among the abandoned ruins of Coliniacahuitlco.

When the tyrannical Aulus Vitellius seizes the reins of power in Rome, the empire is already in the grip of a fierce civil war. But the new emperor's first priority is both personal and deeply symbolic: he plans to crush the Green chariot racing faction - the mortal enemies of his beloved Blues - at the Plebeian Games in the Circus Maximus. To save the Greens from certain extinction, two former charioteers have just twenty-six days to transport four champion chariot horses across the breadth of Europe to Rome.

Rome is marching. Cities and temples are falling. On the outskirts of the empire, Princess Andrada convinces her father to tutor her as his heir despite a taboo against women rulers. But her lifelong battle against entrenched customs shatters when she fails the King's Challenge and is sentenced to death. To save Andrada from execution, her father marries her off to a neighboring king who doesn't care about governing.

A peasant on his deathbed is given immortality by a less-than-trustworthy Mahjong sharp. Together, they travel around ancient China, learning its secrets, discovering new methods of extracting coins from people, and even meet with the first Emperor of China in his mysterious subterranean palace, complete with rivers of mercury.

Fatta passare per millenni come una storia meravigliosa e travagliata, a tratti cruenta ma destinata a buon fine, l’Odissea spiazza da subito il lettore con il suo incedere altalenante e il suo scarso equilibrio, visto che le peripezie di Ulisse tra maghe e ciclopi, sirene e mostri marini, che tanto hanno affascinato i lettori di ogni epoca, impegnano a malapena un sesto di un poema che è dedicato piuttosto, nella sua parte preponderante, ai preparativi di un massacro tremendo e immotivato, quello dei cosiddetti "proci", i pretendenti di Penelope.

Roma, 50 d.C. Massimo Valerio Messalla è nobile di nascita, colto per educazione e guerriero per scelta, ma la sua libertà sta per finire: il padre gli impone di sposarsi, per garantire una discendenza alla stirpe dei Valeri. Ottavia Lenate è una giovane inquieta e curiosa, appassionata di scienza e astronomia, che desidera la conoscenza, non un marito, specie non uno ruvido e affascinante come Messalla, l’uomo a cui scopre di essere destinata. Massimo e Ottavia si trovano così forzati in un’unione decisa da altri, finché il Fato non li porterà ad Alessandria d’Egitto.