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Shauna Roberts

The Moon God’s Wife: A Novel of Enheduanna

By Shauna Roberts - Published 2021

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Esh-tar-da-ri, daughter, sister, and aunt of kings in the sprawling Mesopotamian empire of Akkad, wants nothing more from her earliest childhood than to ...Read Review

Claimed by the Enemy

By Shauna Roberts - Published 2014

Genres:

Romance

The Akkadian conquest of ancient Susa forms the unusual backdrop for Roberts’ latest historical novel, in which proud, haunted Crown Princess Nindalla, still ...Read Review

Like Mayflies in a Stream

By Shauna Roberts - Published 2009

Genres:

Epic

Roberts retells ancient Mesopotamia’s Epic of Gilgamesh, the world’s first written tale. Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, oppresses his people until ...Read Review