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A Thousand Ships: Age of Bronze, v. 1
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Originally serialized in the comic book series Age of Bronze, issues 1-9. An accursed family; a deadly oath; a fiery prophecy; a beautiful ...Read Review
Drinker of Blood
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In Robinson’s fifth Lord Meren mystery, Meren continues his surreptitious efforts to find the killer of his friend and queen, the beloved ...Read Review
SPQR I: The King’s Gambit and SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy
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How glorious! Finally, the reissue of this fabulous mystery series! American readers are well aware of how impossible it has been to find ...Read Review
Kleopatra
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Karen Essex has written a well researched, engrossing account of Kleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt. Like most stories of this ...Read Review
Unspoken
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King David of Israel has it all: wealth, power, women, and the love of God. But when he spies a beautiful woman bathing ...Read Review
The Land Where Stories End
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“And now for something completely different….” The Monty Python title is perfect for this fantasy. Australian David Foster, former Miles Franklin award winner, ...Read Review
1921
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Morgan Llywelyn’s latest novel chronicles the events which took place in Ireland between 1917 and 1923. After the Easter Rising, journalist Henry Mooney writes ...Read Review
The Trumpeting Angel
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This novel is set in Melbourne, Australia at the time of the Federation. Marshall Browne brings to light the suffrage movement in a ...Read Review
The Notary
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Raymond Maillot’s passable skills as a notary have always taken second place to the pleasures of the flesh. However, when the sober ...Read Review
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, And The Everlasting Dead
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Pringle is a frequent contributor to Discover magazine, and if you like easy-to-read articles of that publication’s type, you will definitely enjoy ...Read Review