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1st Century

Journey to the Well

By Diana Wallis Taylor - Published 2009

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In a familiar New Testament story, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman by a well, speaks to her in spite of custom, and then ...Read Review

Give Me Back My Legions!

By Harry Turtledove - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure Military

Quinctilius Varus is not a natural soldier. But no upper-class Roman can refuse the wishes of the Emperor Augustus, and so when the ...Read Review

The Scribes from Alexandria

By Caroline Lawrence - Published 2008

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Children/Young Adult Mystery/Crime

81 A.D. Alexandria. In this, the fifteenth Roman Mysteries adventure, the four children, Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus are shipwrecked off the coast ...Read Review

The Mark of Edain

By Pauline Chandler - Published 2008

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult

History for animal lovers. Aoife, the niece of Caradoc the chieftain leading the struggle against the Romans in Britain, is captured in a ...Read Review

Betray the Night: A Novel about Ovid

By Benita Kane Jaro - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

By the year 8 CE, Augustus Caesar has ruled Rome for over thirty years, and the Republic is slowly becoming an empire. In that ...Read Review

Luke’s Story: Book Three of the Jesus Chronicles

By Jerry B. Jenkins - By Tim LaHaye - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Inspirational

This biblical novel, the third in the Jesus Chronicles series, seeks to flesh out the people we know only from Acts and the ...Read Review

Alexandria

By Lindsey Davis - Published 2009

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Mystery/Crime

This marks the nineteenth outing for the Roman informer (private detective) Marcus Didius Falco. Each book in the series centers on a specific ...Read Review

The Centurion’s Wife

By Davis Bunn - By Janette Oke - Published 2009

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Inspirational

Young Leah, a penniless niece of Pontius Pilate, has something more on her mind than the prophet named Jesus who has just been ...Read Review

Bright Dark Madonna

By Elizabeth Cunningham - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Historical Fantasy

Maiden Maeve on her native Celtic isle (in volume one of The Maeve Chronicles) seemed to have a relationship with Jesus, the druid-in-training ...Read Review

Honored

By Roberta Kells Dorr - Published 2003

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Inspirational

How would Mary, mother of Jesus, remember the events surrounding his birth? In this understated novella, Mary shares her reminiscences with Luke, the ...Read Review