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Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsWhirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams... -
![The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett]()
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 69 ratings#1 New York Times BestsellerAn Amazon Best Book of 2020 The thrilling and addictive prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle AgesJust as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series. --The Washington PostIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages... -
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![Troy by Stephen Fry]()
Troy by Stephen Fry
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsThe story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between allies, whose consequences become tragedies... -
![The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago]()
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThis is a skeptic's journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saramago's tale has sparked intense discussion about the meaning of Christianity and the Church as an institution. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero...Categorized as:
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![The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper]()
The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe final, dramatic installment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy.Amara's journey has taken her far; from enslavement in Pompeii's wolf den brothel to her new life as a high-powered courtesan in Rome, but her story is not over yet. While Amara plays for power in Rome's imperial palace, those dearest to her remain in Pompeii... -
![Joanna by Katrina D. Hamel]()
Joanna by Katrina D. Hamel
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShe's bound to the infamous Herodian dynasty, but her bold faith will carve her name in the gospel.Joanna must pay the price for her brother's crime. Claimed as a hostage, she's forced from the verdant slopes of her beloved vineyard to serve Herod Antipas' neglected wife. In an opulent palace where Roman culture supersedes the commands of God, Joanna struggles to express her Jewish faith... -
![Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsTuya came as a teenaged slave to Potiphar's household, a personal gift from the Pharaoh. Tall and slender, the young girl had eyes that shone like a stream of gold. She knew nothing about her past, except that she had always been a slave... -
![Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
Dreamers by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn the exotic land of Pharaoh, Tuya, a slave girl, is sold into servitude as a playmate to a wealthy child. Betrayed and cast out as she ascends into womanhood, Tuya finds herself belonging to Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh's guard. Yet she soon gives her heart to handsome Joseph, a man sold into slavery by his own brothers... -
![Queen of Ash and Iron by Melanie Karsak]()
Queen of Ash and Iron by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFated to lead a rebellion against Rome.Destined to become a legend.Britain, A.D. 47All at once, everything changes.The rebellion of the Northern Iceni under King Caturix results in dire consequences for Boudica. Without Aulus Plautius’s protection, Boudica must face the new, more severe Roman Governor Scapula... -
![The Blackthorn Queen by Melanie Karsak]()
The Blackthorn Queen by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBritain, AD 38, Princess Cartimandua—Carti—of the Brigantes tribe faces an uncertain future when her father’s sudden death ignites turmoil. Suspicion falls on the Crow People of the Votadini tribe, straining the fragile peace between the factions. But they’re not the only ones bearing a grudge. A tangled web of political games soon unfolds... -
![The Daughter of Rome by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
The Daughter of Rome by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Nero's Rome, Calandra helps her father, a renowned sculptor, complete the most significant commission of his illustrious career. But then a catastrophic fire nearly destroys the imperial city, leaving Calandra reliant on a group of Christians--unusual individuals unlike any she has encountered before... -
![Heir of Hope by Morgan L. Busse]()
Heir of Hope by Morgan L. Busse
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat would you sacrifice to save mankind?The great city of Thyra has fallen and shadows spread across the land. Rowen Mar, the last Truthsayer, is taken before the Shadonae. But the Shadonae are not who she thought they were, and now they want to claim her as their own. Caleb Tala, former assassin and prince, is now a Guardian of mankind... -
![A.D. 33 by Ted Dekker]()
A.D. 33 by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes... -
![Little Black Girl Lost 4: The Diary of Josephine Baptiste by Keith Lee Johnson]()
Little Black Girl Lost 4: The Diary of Josephine Baptiste by Keith Lee Johnson
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsRevealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on the night before the arranged marriage is to take place on a Dutch slave ship bound for America where she becomes Josephine Baptiste...Categorized as:
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![Dovetail by Karen McQuestion]()
Dovetail by Karen McQuestion
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Hello Love comes a spellbinding new novel of enduring love, family secrets, and mysterious death.Joe Arneson’s ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn’t until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges... -
![Cloaked in Beauty by Karen Witemeyer]()
Cloaked in Beauty by Karen Witemeyer
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the heart of the Piney Woods of Texas, Letty Hood has spent the last fifteen years of her life hidden away with her grandmother to escape the deadly schemes of an uncle who wants her dead... -
![Heretic by Bernard Cornwell]()
Heretic by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWith Calais in English hands, hostilities are suspended, but Thomas' quest to find the Holy Grail continues. His cousin Guy of Vexille still pursues him with deadly purpose, convinced that there is a link between Thomas and what he covets... -
![Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières]()
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters... -
![The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright]()
The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll... -
![Fairest of Heart by Karen Witemeyer]()
Fairest of Heart by Karen Witemeyer
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnce upon a time in Texas . . .Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope Snow. When she becomes a personal maid for a famous actress whose troupe is leaving Chicago to tour the West, she hides her figure beneath shapeless dresses and keeps her head down. But she still manages to attract the wrong attention, leaving her prospects in tatters--and her jealous mistress plotting her demise... -
![A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker]()
A.D. 30 by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsA sweeping epic set in the harsh deserts of Arabia and ancient Palestine. A war that rages between kingdoms on the earth and in the heart.The harrowing journey of the woman at the center of it all. The story of Jesus in a way you have never experienced it. Step back in time to the year of our Lord, Anno Domini, 30... -
![He Who Lifts the Skies by Kacy Barnett-Gramckow]()
He Who Lifts the Skies by Kacy Barnett-Gramckow
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPowerful imagery creates a 'you are there' immersion in the story of the post-Flood world. Kacy Barnett-Gramckow fans raved about her extraordinary job of moving the Flood off the Sunday School flannelgraph board and into life in the Heavens Before... -
![The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh]()
The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn an underground labyrinth a lost soul wanders, waiting for revenge, waiting for love… London 1900Alice Webster has made the worst decision of her life. When her Aunt Agatha offers her the chance to go on a Grand Tour she jumps at the opportunity to get away from the glare of scandal... -
![She Walks in Majesty by MaryLu Tyndall]()
She Walks in Majesty by MaryLu Tyndall
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDanger around every corner. Intrigues in everyone’s past. And a romance that’s swoon worthy. She Walks in Majesty is all that and more, with a plot that twists and turns and truths that are hard-hitting... -
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![The Condemned by Irina Shapiro]()
The Condemned by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2015. Dr. Quinn Allenby thinks she’s seen it all, but when the remains of a young woman and her newborn are discovered in a cave in Cornwall, the only clue to her death is a smooth-edged hole in the top of the skull and the indisputable evidence that the victim was still alive, and possibly in labor, when the coffin was sealed... -
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Blood Eagle by Tim Hodkinson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEinar and the Wolf Coats undertake a dangerous mission to war-torn Northern France in this thrilling Viking adventure from Tim Hodkinson.936 AD. Brittany is torn apart by war. Many nobles have sought refuge in King Aethelstan's England, including Louis, prospective king of Francia. Einar and the Wolf Coats, disillusioned by events in Norway, are also at Aethelstan's court... -
![The Myths of Ophelia by Nicole Platania]()
The Myths of Ophelia by Nicole Platania
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 4 in the Epic Romantic Fantasy series, The Curse of Ophelia... -
![The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright]()
The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1910 Michigan, Perliett VanHilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor, George Wasziak, convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother, Maribeth VanHilton, is a Spiritualist who regularly offers her services to help others speak to their dearly departed... -
![Magdalen Rising: The Beginning by Elizabeth Cunningham]()
Magdalen Rising: The Beginning by Elizabeth Cunningham
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMagdalen Rising( The Beginning) <> Paperback <> ElizabethCunningham <>... -
![A Man Called Blessed (The Caleb Books Series Book 2) by Ted Dekker]()
A Man Called Blessed (The Caleb Books Series Book 2) by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOne man holds the key to locating the Ark of the Covenant—but he’s hidden deep in the desert and no one has seen him since he was a boy. In this explosive sequel to Blessed Child, Jewish soldier-turned-archaeologist Rebecca Soloman leads a team deep into the Ethiopian desert to find the one man who may know the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant... -
![Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Stephanie Marie Thornton]()
Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEgypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh’s pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile’s marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome accident arising from Hatshepsut’s games forces her to confront her guilt...and sets her on a profoundly changed course...Categorized as:
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![Havah: The Story of Eve by Tosca Lee]()
Havah: The Story of Eve by Tosca Lee
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA single decison has the power to unravel mankind.Created, not born.The world's first woman, without flaw, until one fateful choice. Now all humanity must pay for the mistake.From paradise to exile, from immortality to the death of Adam, experience the dawn of mankind through the eyes of Eve -- the woman first known as Havah... -
![The Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy]()
The Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBritannia, AD 117: Roman centurion Flavius Ferox is trying to live a quiet life of dignified leisure, overseeing his wife's estate and doing his best to resist the urge to murder an annoying neighbour – until someone else does it for him... -
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King's Blood by Jill Williamson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter the foretold destruction of the Five Realms, the remnant that escaped by sea searches for a new home. As the king's health worsens, Sar Wilek assumes command and struggles to rule the disjointed people, while assassination attempts and dark magic endanger his life... -
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![Titans of War by Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn]()
Titans of War by Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA brand-new Ancient Egyptian epic from the master of adventure, Wilbur Smith. Global bestselling author of River God and The New Kingdom, Wilbur Smith, returns with the next epic book in his brand-new Ancient Egyptian series.AN UNSTOPPABLE ENEMY. A CIVILISATION IN RUINS. A QUEST FOR SALVATION... -
![For the Gods' Sake by Rory L. Scott]()
For the Gods' Sake by Rory L. Scott
For the Gods' Sake is a fake dating, reluctant allies fantasy romance novel. It is the third book in the Tempt the Gods series and can be read as a standalone, but it is recommended to read the recap at the beginning of the book.A god and a princess. Working together.The Greek and Roman gods have co-existed for over two thousand years until the unthinkable happens... -
![Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw]()
Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAriantes is a Sarmatian, a barbarian warrior-prince, uprooted from his home and customs and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact struck with the emperor Marcus Aurelius to ensure the future of Sarmatia, Ariantes and his troop of accomplished horsemen are sent to Hadrian's Wall... -
![A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett]()
A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom... -
![Painting Rain by Annette K. Larsen]()
Painting Rain by Annette K. Larsen
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA proper, clean romance, How do you heal your heart after tragedy leaves you broken? When the person you loved didn’t deserve it and they can’t earn your forgiveness because they’re already dead? How do you move on, and heal, and love? If you’re Princess Lorraina, you paint. A year ago Lorraina watched Tobias die, and she still doesn't know how she's supposed to heal—or forgive... -
![The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora by Stephanie Marie Thornton]()
The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora by Stephanie Marie Thornton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWhere Theodora went, trouble followed… In sixth-century Constantinople, one woman, Theodora, defied every convention and all the odds and rose from common theater tart to empress of a great kingdom, the most powerful woman the Roman Empire would ever know...Categorized as:
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![J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter]()
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood and brought up in near-poverty... -
![Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King]()
Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSet amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King’s seminal debut features the man who inspired the world’s oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction.On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar’s reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii... -
![The Dreaming Beauty by Anneka R. Walker]()
The Dreaming Beauty by Anneka R. Walker
Once upon a dream, two cursed people fell in love...Tansy White doesn't want to end up alone like her three aunts who raised her, but when she is betrayed by her would-be betrothed, she fears she might never change her fate. At her aunts' suggestion, she seizes the chance to visit Rose Cottage, the country home of her late mother... -
![Of Daggers and Deception by A.L. Sowards]()
Of Daggers and Deception by A.L. Sowards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter years as a soldier and mercenary, Rasheed has retired from battle to run the bathhouse in Thebes with his friends Gillen and Eudocia. The simple life suits them, so when Venetian strangers come to town looking to hire the renowned crew, their answer is no... -
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![The Pasha of Cuisine: A Novel by Saygun Ersin]()
The Pasha of Cuisine: A Novel by Saygun Ersin
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA deliciously sweeping, satisfyingly succulent novel full of passion, intrigue, history, politics, astrology, medicine, and the magic of a perfect meal.A Pasha of Cuisine is a rare talent in Ottoman lore. Only two, maybe three are born with such a gift every few centuries... -
![The Trickster's Heart: A Story of Hermes and Hercules by Molly Tullis]()
The Trickster's Heart: A Story of Hermes and Hercules by Molly Tullis
Across the Greek world, Hermes is known as the trickster. After centuries, he's leaned into the title and ignored the unfair reputation that comes with it. Hercules, the mortal hero, has already gained a fearsome reputation of his own. When he needs help to finish his last labor and gain immortality, there's only one god who will be able to help...Categorized as:
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![Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott]()
Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsDreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica. Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word "boudeg"). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumph... -
![The Silver Sword by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
The Silver Sword by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe auburned-haired O'Connor women share a bond far deeper than their striking physical appearance: These courageous, high-spirited women all push against societal limits in this exciting historical, romantic novel that spans generations and countries... -
![The Bull of Min by Libbie Hawker, L.M. Ironside]()
The Bull of Min by Libbie Hawker, L.M. Ironside
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“I know,” Satiah called. Her voice was musical, light, confident as a king's. “It's the Bull of Min you remember, Thutmose. You remember, and you fear.” Conspiracy and treason simmer in the northern reaches of the Two Lands. Thutmose is crippled by guilt over past wrongs. Hatshepsut is subdued by the grief of betrayal and loss... -
![Sovereign of Stars by Libbie Hawker, L.M. Ironside]()
Sovereign of Stars by Libbie Hawker, L.M. Ironside
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHatshepsut has fulfilled her divine destiny and taken the Pharaoh's throne. But she knows her position is precarious. In all Egypt's long history, never has a woman ruled as king -- and Hatshepsut must use all the cleverness and bravery at her disposal to keep the reins of power from tangling in her fist...
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