Epic
The Viking Priest: A Saga of Fate, Faith, Adventure, and Love
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Fleeing from home after his father’s death, Brand travels from Sweden to England. He wants to learn more about the god who ...Read Review
Star Path (People of Cahokia)
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Heeding the warning from the Spirit Beast Piasa, Night Shadow Star realizes that her brother, Walking Smoke, knows she will be making the ...Read Review
Breaking The Foals
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I struggled at first with the strange names and titles and an unfamiliar depiction of Troy. This is not like Homer’s tale. ...Read Review
Arise Crusader: Book I of the Lotharingian Chronicles
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1096 France: young ploughman Anseau of Valois’ rustic but comfortable life is ripped asunder when it becomes known that he loves a local Jewish ...Read Review
Athena’s Champion (Olympus Trilogy)
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In 1290 BC, twenty-year-old Odysseus has been cast out by his father after a prophecy unveils a devastating family secret. While on the run ...Read Review
Make Me a City: A Novel
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In Carr’s sweeping epic, the city of Chicago, from its humble and swampy beginnings in 1800 to the day the swamp is finally ...Read Review
The Children of Jocasta
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Another group of girls break their silence in this brilliant adaptation of the Oedipus myth, told from the perspective of its female protagonists. ...Read Review
The Splendor Before the Dark: A Novel of the Emperor Nero
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Margaret George’s epic novel, the second of two about the emperor Nero (after The Confessions of Young Nero), begins with Rome on ...Read Review
Maid of Baikal: An Alternative Historical Novel of the Russian Civil War
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Captain Edmund du Pont arrives in Siberia in November 1918 to establish wireless stations as part of the American Expeditionary Force’s aid to ...Read Review
The Siege and Fall of Troy
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A re-issue of Robert Graves’ retelling of the Homeric myths is always welcome, and the new introduction by Dan-El Padilla Peralta makes the ...Read Review