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Wall Street and Easter Island come crashing together in this epic and cautionary story of two lost civilizations: one perilously lost in the present and the other tragically lost in the past, each on their journey to find peace, sustainability, and resilience. Rookie New York derivatives trader, Alec James, has a fateful encounter with Roshanak Amari, the most beautiful woman he has never seen, knowing only her eyes from behind the enigmatic veil of the Middle East.

In his follow-up to Uruk: A Novel of the First City, James Zwerneman continues his stunning, action-packed historical adventure series set in ancient Mesopotamia. Jakka has taken his army and Ki, the genius who helped establish Uruk, north to a rich copper mining village to reestablish Magog's...

The Greeks have sailed. The fires along the shore are dark for the first time in ten years. And on the plain before the gates, a wooden horse stands in silence. In twenty-four hours, the greatest city in the Bronze Age world will cease to exist. This is the story of that night. Not told by the victors. Told by the people inside the walls.

History remembers the thunder of Mongol hooves and the name of Kublai Khan, but it has forgotten the architect who built his throne. The Silent Khagan is the epic story of Empress Chabi, a woman who ruled the world's largest contiguous empire from behind a screen of felt. Raised in the traditions of the Khongirad, Chabi was taught that "power is a mirror". While her husband conquered through steel, Chabi governed through information, logistics, and the strategic management of men.

Egypt, 1100 BCE. The gods are silent. The tombs are open. And one woman holds the proof. Isetnofret is a priestess of Isis at the temple of Karnak, healer and keeper of sacred texts that encode a thousand years of wisdom. When she discovers that the scrolls she guards contain evidence of systematic corruption reaching the highest ranks of the Amun priesthood, her faith becomes her most dangerous possession.

Bloomsbury presents Brigantia by Adrian Goldsworthy, read by Peter Noble From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set in Roman Britain. AD 100: BRITANNIA. THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. Flavius Ferox is the hardbitten centurion charged with...

A ROMAN SLAVE HAS FURTHER TO FALL THAN MOST . . . AD 46. The Roman Republic has become a true empire, stretching from Egypt to the seacoast of Gaul. Sixty million people live under its rule: slaves, citizens, nobleman and emperors alike...

Old certainties have vanished. Laws are flouted, norms discarded. The Senate, once the Republic’s proudest institution, cowers under the shadow of brute force. This is not Washington. This is Rome, 27 BCE. As Rome bleeds itself dry with civil wars and ruthless ambition, two figures who were previously relegated to historical footnotes fight to hold things together. Octavia, sister to Rome’s rising first emperor, and Agrippa, that emperor’s loyal friend and brilliant commander, stand firm against chaos and betrayal.

Ancient peoples weren't isolated. They were globally connected. And someone doesn't want you to know. Cuchu Ramirez and Matias Kim have mastered the basics of time travel, but their greatest discovery awaits. As federal restrictions threaten to eliminate pre-Columbian studies nationwide, they journey back 3,500 years to witness the Bronze Age Networks—and uncover proof that ancient peoples were more globally connected than modern politicians want students to believe.

Before Helios’ odyssey began, there was Leo. Bullied by his peers, broken by his father’s cruelty, and clinging to his mother’s love, Leo’s childhood in ancient Athens is a battle for survival. Lamb of Athens is a haunting prequel that tells the story of the boy who would become...

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.

Découvrez la genèse tumultueuse de la République romaine à travers le regard visionnaire et la plume érudite d’Isaac Asimov, dans un récit captivant mêlant politique, intrigue et destinée.

Una novela magistral sobre la guerra de Troya contada desde una perspectiva femenina. Desde las mujeres troyanas, cuyos destinos ahora están en manos de los griegos, hasta la princesa amazona que, en nombre de ellas, luchó contra Aquiles, pasando por Penélope, que espera el regreso de Ulises, o las tres diosas con cuya contienda empezó todo... Éstas son las fabulosas historias de unas mujeres envueltas en una guerra legendaria y marcadas por sus terribles secuelas.

La historia de Radnor comenzó hace muchos veranos, en otra cruel batalla a lo largo del gran océano. Estaba en una maravillosa tierra remota conquistada por Zark el Vikinn, el valiente guerrero del norte. Zark era el jefe del gran clan de personas nórdicas que se hacían llamar Vikinns, conocidos por ellos mismos como los hijos de los dioses del norte que descendieron hace cientos de años de las luces nocturnas en el cielo invernal.

Richard Garnett C.B. was born on the 27th February 1835. Educated in Bloomsbury he then joined the nearby British Museum as an assistant librarian in 1851, shortly after his father’s death. As an author he wrote several volumes of verse, a book of short stories and several biographies and history books.

Fichu... elles se sont terminées... Fichtre... les aventures de l’Alchimiste Kronarius continuent. L'Alliance des quatre est de nouveau attirée par la mystérieuse grotte de la forêt frontalière. Ils apprennent avec regret qu’ils y sont tout sauf les bienvenus. Le mystère entourant le Grimoire Drogurien dépasse même l'imagination du Maître des Elixirs. Le voyage à la cour royale doit leur permettre de se reposer. Mais dès la première nuit, le gouverneur est assassiné.