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Parthian Vengeance' is the third instalment in the Parthian Chronicles, the adventures of King Pacorus of Dura, and follows on from 'Parthian Dawn'.The brooding peace that hangs over Parthia is shattered by a murder that triggers the final confrontation that will decide who rules the empire. Pacorus leads his veteran army east to destroy once and for all the forces of his implacable enemies, Mithridates and Narses. But his foes have been waiting for...
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Entre 1865 y 1870 se libró una feroz contienda en el Paraguay, que fue atacado por una alianza entre la Argentina gobernada por Bartolomé Mitre, Uruguay y el Brasil imperial de Pedro II°. El casus belli todavía permanece en las sombras, pero no son ajenas las maquinaciones británicas que envió al cónsul itinerante de S.M., el capitán Richard Burton al teatro de guerra desde donde escribió y describió el horror. En un margen de su informe,...
23) Cooperatism
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In this fictitious, historical account of the world in the 21st century, a historian from centuries into the future, writes a work of history recounting the events, people, and writings that lead humanity to attempt to shed its dependence on a universal money system. We are taken on a thought provoking journey through several generations of change, where fictional characters explain how the world transitioned from a money system to one based on cooperation....
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In a Norse viking age of axes, sorcery, giants, and dragons - world history and cultural mythology are both equally real and taking place. The globe trekking saga of Fastillion Lemonde begins at his childhood home on the Isle of Vinland during the Norse colonization of the Americas in the 11th Century. Fastillion, of mixed race and the adopted orphan son of his village's Christian priest, he is a young man that can move among the diverse cultures...
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In May, 1940, the German Army invaded France in a blitzkrieg attack that defeated the French army in six weeks. In Caen, France, as in the other cities of France, the French resistance arose to fight the Germans and free France from the brutal occupation by the Nazis. This is the story of the men and women who fought in the French resistance, in the dark of night and called by Brigadier General Charles De Gaulle, the leader of the Free French, the...
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Winner Best Book in Historical Fiction - Spring 2024 Pencraft AwardsSeattle journalist Alienor Crespo travels to Spain to claim the promise of citizenship offered to the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. As she relives history through her vijitas (visits) with her ancestors, Alienor also confronts modern-day extremism and commits herself to protecting an endangered "Library of Light" – a hidden treasure trove of medieval Hebrew and...
27) Ze'ev! (Wolf!)
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Ze'ev! (Wolf!) is the fictional story of Jakub Wolff, a fierce and courageous 22-year old, Polish resistance fighter who, as a lone wolf and along side his comrades-in-arms, resisted and fought the Nazi SS and German Wehrmacht soldiers guarding the imprisoned Polish Jews held captive in the Warsaw Ghetto during the 1943 uprising.
29) Castellan
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Outraged by the behaviour of the Sword Brothers, King Valdemar has placed a blockade on the whole of Livonia. With the Danes having a stranglehold over Livonia the crusader state is slowly dying, made worse by an outbreak of pestilence at Riga. But when the Danish king invades the island of Oesel the wheel of fate turns and Valdemar finds himself at the mercy of the Sword Brothers and Conrad Wolff, the man he wanted to have executed.The Sword Brothers...
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In a Norse viking age of axes, sorcery, giants, and dragons - world history and cultural mythology are both equally real and taking place. The globe trekking saga of Fastillion Lemonde begins at his childhood home on the Isle of Vinland during the Norse colonization of the Americas in the 11th Century. Fastillion, of mixed race and the adopted orphan son of his village's Christian priest, he is a young man that can move among the diverse cultures...
31) Army of the Wolf
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The Sword Brothers have won a great victory and the implacable enemy of their order is dead. There is now nothing to stop the Bishop of Riga from marching north and seizing the whole of Estonia. But in the moment of triumph the seeds of future difficulties have been sown, for the bishop's German crusaders believe that the fight against the pagans has been won and thus there is no reason for them to stay in Livonia. Faced with a lack of holy warriors...
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Judge Thomas Averill carter is wealthy, influential, good looking and the most eligible bachelor in Tioga County, New York in 1852. His authority is wide-ranging and his life is nearly perfect. Any thought of serious romance is the farthest thing from his mind, until he is upended by the stunningly beautiful Sa-ku-ma Gage, eldest of a Mohawk family of touring gospel singings and story tellers.Casting Victorian conventions aside they allow their intense...
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On the voyage to Western Australia, Mary Claire is pressured by Simon Plowman to work for him as a covert spy, but the man who crushed the Fenian uprising in 1867 will inadvertently train her in the art of espionage and deception. She wastes no time in organizing a jail break.In the U.K., Simon is seen to undermine every important Irish movement. Whether he is manipulating Charles Stuart Parnell or blackmailing Lord Salisbury, he appears to be an...
34) Companions
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They called themselves Companions – those who escaped from Italy with Pacorus in the aftermath of Spartacus' uprising, travelling across the Mediterranean to make their home in Parthia. They subsequently assisted Pacorus in turning the Kingdom of Dura into one of the strongest realms in the Parthian Empire.But one Companion was unwittingly left behind and condemned to the living hell of Roman slavery. When Pacorus discovers this he and a band of...
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The good ship Kathryn B has weathered many a storm, but this one could be her last. Chased by pirates into the very teeth of a hurricane, her valiant crew fights against the dread pirate ship Marigold.All except cabin boy Phineas Caswell, who has somehow managed to get himself trapped on the wrong side of the battle. Instead of helping rescue his own ship, he's actually aboard the Marigold, his hands resting on a secret that will rewrite the map of...
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Book Two, the adventure continues as Ronan MacAlasdair, in his position as Turcopole of the Templar Order, is drawn deeper into the affairs and political rivalries of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Acre. New dangers arise as the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt moves closer to a war whose ultimate goal is to drive the last remaining Crusader state in the Holy Land into the sea.
37) Wisps of Gold
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Rose Wood is fresh out of finishing school where her father, taken by gold fever, deserted her five years ago. She journeys the Cariboo Wagon Road to return to her father's side at the 108 Mile Hotel. Once she arrives, a rotting stench greets her at the door-her father's corpse left for her to find.Whispers abound he was killed for his treasure. Blackmail and veiled threats from an unknown enemy compel her to search for her father's hidden gold vein....
38) Strong Sweet Tea
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In these modern days, where many of us play 'catch up' with the latest in technology, it's good to pause and look back to the early days of development in our beautiful country, the joys and the sacrifices. At our moment of birth, we already have a past, a present and a future, all embodied in the tiny creature that we are; filled with traits, abilities and talents waiting to be discovered – gifts from our rich heritage of family – given naturally...
39) The Silver Rings
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Book II in the popular and acclaimed Al Andalus series. It is FEBRUARY 1265 and our heroes return home to find that their city has changed. Can their friendships and affections survive the new order?Rebecca is love-lorn and persecuted; Miguel is now the head of the Delgado family; Ben, the reluctant hero, pines for the past and Atta is desperate to find his father, held hostage by bandeleros. Together with Nathan, the runaway with dangerous new friends,...
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In this short story, Annie Walsh runs the fiercest gang in Hell's Kitchen, the Lady Gophers. When she meets the renowned socialist, Eugene Debs, her loyalties are tested, and she faces a decision that will upend not only her life, but the lives of those who survive in her orbit. Set in 1890 and inspired by the true stories of Battle Annie and Eugene Debs.
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