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STEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD - OF MAGIC, MAYHEM, MONSTERS AND MANIACAL GODS - IN STEPHEN FRY'S MOMENTOUS SUNDAY TIMES AND AUDIBLE BESTSELLER, MYTHOS Discover Stephen Fry's magnificent retelling of the greatest myths and legends ever told . . . No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly...

Giftmord und Hexensabbat Die Ewige Stadt 50 vor Christus: Der römische Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus der Jüngere kehrt aus dem bequemen Exil auf Rhodos zurück nach Rom, um seinem verstorbenen Verwandten Celer die letzte Ehre zu erweisen. Als das Gerücht aufkommt, Celers berüchtigte Frau...

What if the ancient world was far more connected than history remembers? As Minoan sailors had done for hundreds of years before him, Captain Rusa sailedacross the wide Atlantic to a land of abundant pure copper and home again tothe sun-drenched city of Akrotiri on the island of Thera. But on...

Praised by Booker Prize winner David Szalay as a “strange, humane and beautiful book,” A Cat At the End of the World cements Robert Perišić’s reputation as one of the most exciting and important contemporary writers in Europe. Delivered like a fable, this graceful, lyrical novel shifts perspectives between a runaway slave and Scatterwind, a bodiless spirit that moves effortlessly through time and space, from the days of ancient Syracuse to our contemporary era.

At the temple of Isis, the roles the world remembers are reversed: Miryam of Magdala is the teacher, and Yeshua of Nazareth is her initiate. Teachings of Miryam follows the three hidden years the gospels never recorded. Under Miryam's guidance, Yeshua descends into the ancient Egyptian mysteries...

The Republic was already a corpse. Caesar was simply the first to point it out. In the Forum Romanum, hired thugs brawl beneath crumbling temples while senators step over bodies to reach their morning appointments. The graffiti mocks Pompey. The aqueducts leak filth onto statues of Concord. And...

Solomon built a kingdom. Time would test it.Born into a court divided by ambition and blood, Solomon inherits a fragile throne and an uncertain future. The tenth of nineteen sons of David, he survives a deadly struggle for succession and assumes rule over a small hill-country capital in a region...

Previously published as The Itinerary. Messiah's Preparation, a Christian historical fiction of Jesus in the wilderness Did you ever wonder what transpired during the mysterious forty days Jesus spent alone in the wilderness after his baptism? Uncover the untold story in Messiah's Preparation, a captivating Christian historical fiction that weaves fact and fiction into a modern-day narrative. The Wilderness Sojourn: A Journey of Solitude, Temptations, and Divine Revelation Are you ready to journey alongside Jesus as he faces solitude, fasting, prayer, and the relentless temptations of Satan?

Ein Mann, den seine Heimat für einen Verräter hält. Ein Reich, das ganz Griechenland unterwerfen will. Eine Schlacht, die über die Zukunft Athens entscheidet. Im Jahr 480 v. Chr. bereitet der persische Großkönig Xerxes den größten Feldzug vor, den die griechische Welt je erlebt hat. Glaukon scheint für ein glückliches Leben bestimmt zu sein. Der junge Athener stammt aus einer angesehenen Familie, wird als außergewöhnlicher Athlet gefeiert und liebt seine Frau Hermione. Doch sein engster Freund Demokrates verbirgt ein gefährliches Geheimnis.

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, painting the brutal and captivating empire of gods and men, and the one queen destined to rule them all. A common woman. The governor she married. The king who loved them both. Babylonia...

Cette œuvre est à la fois roman, histoire et poésie. En imaginant les Mémoires d'un grand empereur romain, l'auteur a voulu "refaire du dedans ce que les archéologues du XIXe siècle ont fait du dehors". Jugeant sans complaisance sa vie d'homme et son œuvre politique, Hadrien n'ignore pas que Rome finira un jour par périr, mais son réalisme romain et son humanisme hérité des Grecs lui font sentir l'importance de penser et de servir jusqu'au bout.

This #1 New York Times bestseller brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey, as she discovers her own power, forges her identity, and challenges the gods who seek to control her. "[A] bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story." —The New York Times...

IMAGINE SANDALS ON YOUR FEET, A SWORD IN YOUR HAND, HOT SUN BEATING DOWN ON YOUR BRONZE HELMET. ENTER THE WORLD OF STEPHEN FRY'S SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, HEROES Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming...

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they’ve herded the sorry prisoners of...

Abandoned after months of captivity, Julius Caesar gathers recruits that he will forge into a unit powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors. But soon a new crisis threatens: a gladiator named Spartacus.

Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs, bloody violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community.

On a small estate just outside Rome in the first century BC, two boys become blood brothers, little imagining the extraordinary future that lies before them. As friends and rivals, Gaius and Marcus are destined to find lasting fame.

Gallien, Rom, Ägypten. Drei Großmächte am Scheideweg 58 v. Chr. Bedrängt von germanischen Überfällen machen sich rund hunderttausend Helvetier auf den Weg ins fruchtbare Gallien. Es ist eine gewaltige Völkerwanderung, die Rom alarmiert. Und Julius Cäsar, frisch ernannter Prokonsul, erkennt seine Chance: Strategisch brillant zwingt er bei Bibracte die Helvetier zur Umkehr und eröffnet damit einen Eroberungsfeldzug, der den Beginn seiner Legende markiert. Während Cäsar im Westen triumphiert, erschüttern in Rom politische Intrigen und persönliche Rivalitäten die Grundfeste der Republik.

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.

Ayla, the unforgettable heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear, sets out on her own odyssey of discovery away from the nurturing adoptive family and friends of the Clan. She is in search of others like herself and in search of love.