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The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad. Yet there is light...
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He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35)
The Bronze Bow, written by Elizabeth George Speare (author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond) won the Newbery Medal in 1962. This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin—a fierce, hotheaded young man bent on revenging his father's death by forcing the Romans from his land of Israel.
...3) Bronze Skies
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TOUGH FEMALE P.I. EXPLORING THE UNDERWORLD OF A VAST STAR EMPIRE. Book two in a new series set in the world of Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire series. Major Bhaajan achieved the impossible. Born to the Undercity, the slums below the City of Cries on the planet Raylicon, she broke free from crushing poverty and crime to become a military officer with Imperial Space Command. Now retired from military duty, she walks the mean streets of Undercity as...
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Nachdem Call und seine Freunde unter Einsatz ihres Lebens den Feind des Todes abgewehrt haben, richtet das Magisterium eine Party für sie aus. Statt zu feiern, muss Call jedoch den Angriff eines Chaosbesessenen abwehren. Eigentlich sollte das Wesen im Verließ unter der Schule festsitzen, doch irgendjemand hat es herausgelassen. Es muss im Magisterium jemanden geben, der Call töten will. Oder sind vielleicht sogar beide Makaris in Gefahr? Die Freunde...
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A crown forged by death.
A fleet bent on destruction.
A clash of cities that will change everything.
In a storm of fire, a dead tyrant stakes his claim on the world once more. Manon Barca, desperate to save her brother from a cruel fate, bends the knee, determined to withstand any price.
Across the sea, Eska de Caraval searches for a legend. Confronted with chaos and unanswerable questions, questions challenging her very identity, she must determine...
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A world gone mad. Creatures of nightmare walk the streets, but worse are those we once knew...
Matt survived the Dungeon's founding, and managed to gather a small, but dedicated team to him, but when he finds his is not the only Dungeon in the area, he has a choice to make.
Attempt friendly co-existence, but lose the element of surprise, or attack, and risk it all?
Matt has learned the consequences of being too trusting when the world collapses...
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The last stand at Thermopylae made the Spartans legends in their own time, famous for their toughness, stoicism and martial prowess – but was this reputation earned?
Covering Sparta's full classical history, The Bronze Lie examines the myth of Spartan warrior supremacy.
This book paints a very different picture of Spartan warfare – punctuated by frequent and heavy losses. We also discover a society dedicated to militarism not in service to Greek...
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It's the first century AD, and Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's favorite son and sometimes palace spy, has just been dealt a lousy blow from the gods: the beautiful, high-born Helena Justina has left him in the dust. So when the Emperor Vespasian calls upon him to investigate an act of treason, Falco is more than ready for a distraction. Disguised as an idle vacationer in the company of his best friend Petronius, Falco travels from the Isle of...
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"Returning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the final riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever in The Bronzed Beasts.
After Séverin's seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the snarled, haunted waterways of Venice, Italy to locate Séverin....
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In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men had been travelling to the ancient Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, when they were ambushed and killed by local soldiers. Just six weeks later, the British had exacted their revenge, set Benin aflame, exiled the king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa's greatest works of art.
This is the story of the...
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When a powerful viceroy arrives with a fleet of mechanical dragons and stops an attack on Anlei's village, the villagers see him as a godsend. They agree to give him their sacred, enchanted River Pearl in exchange for permanent protection-if he'll marry one of the village girls to solidify the alliance. Anlei is appalled when the viceroy selects her as a bride, but with the fate of her people at stake, she sees no choice but to consent. Anlei's noble...
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A vivid, uninhibited retelling of the classic Greek stories
Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths, which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal.
Most of us would like to know the Greek myths better than we do, and books like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf have demonstrated the power of ancient texts to enchant...
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In the second year of the reign of Emperor Xianfeng of Qing Dynasty, an ancient Western Zhou tripod found in Shanxi that be stocked by Weifang academician Chen Jieqi. Chen is good at studying inscriptions on bronze and stone. He discovered a big secret hidden in the inscriptions inside the tripod. At this time, a bloody letter placed at the door of his home made him realize that he was being used. Next, he was involved in a dispute between the government...
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Year 2018: the bronze crown disappears from the icon of the Palazzo della Signoria in Jesi, which has always been above the rampant lion, symbolizing the royalty of the city. A new enigma to solve for the scholar Lucia Balleani who, finally met love in the young archaeologist Andrea Franciolini, will have to rediscover with him some unknown sides related to the life of her ancestor Lucia Baldeschi. So let's go back, together with our two heroes, back...
15) The end is always near: apocalyptic moments, from the Bronze Age collapse to nuclear near misses
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"A journey back in time that explores what happened -- and what could have happened -- from creator of the wildly-popular podcast Hardcore History and 2019 winner of the iHeartRadio Best History Podcast Award"--
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In the decades that followed the American Civil War, artist James E. Kelly (1855-1933) conducted in-depth interviews with more than forty Union generals in an effort to accurately portray them in their greatest moment of glory. “I had always felt a great lack of certain personal details,” Kelly explained. “I made up my mind to ask from the living officers every question that I would have asked Washington or his generals had they posed for me,...
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Two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today. From early times the British people have been drawn to the Holy Land through two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and, later, the imperial need to control the road to India and access to the oil...
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Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realize. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy, or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who launched a violent feud with her former best friend, or Edmund Kean, the dazzling...
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"Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award in World History & Biography/Autobiography, Association of American Publishers" Christopher I. Beckwith is professor of Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University. His other books include The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia (Princeton).
An epic account of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents...
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