Epic
Someone Knows My Name
Aminata Diallo is enslaved as a child in 1745 and lives through six decades by working in the indigo fields…
The Rowing Lesson
Harold Klein was a skinny Jewish South African kid with a hard-working general store proprietor father and a high-strung mother.…
Color of the Sea
This is a novel everyone should read, not just because it’s a nicely-layered book with depth and meaning, beautifully written…
Veil of Fire
The first section of this novel follows what happens to a handful of residents during a firestorm of 1894 that…
The Fall of Rome
Attila is dead. The Western Roman Empire is tottering. As every source of order crumbles, life, already brutish and short,…
Roma
Steven Saylor, the award-winning mystery writer of the Roma Sub Rosa series, undertakes the multigenerational historical saga in his latest…
Belisarius, Book 1: The First Shall Be Last
Belisarius was the great general whose leadership of the Byzantine armies of the Emperor Justinian during the 6th century led…
Masque of the Gonzagas
This panoramic epic of the Italian Renaissance is set in the court of Vincenzo Gonzaga, 4th Duke of Mantua, who…
Troy: Shield of Thunder
Editors' choice
Plain-faced Helen sits behind the walls of Troy, married to Paris but never to Menelaus; Andromache loves another but is…
Dawn of Empire
Editors' choice
On the eastern bank of the Tigris five thousand years ago, Orak grew into a rich and powerful village, settled…
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