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"I’ve always wanted to see something of the Empire outside Rome." AD 71. Germania Libera: dark, dripping forests inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians and legendary wild beasts, a furious prophetess who terrorises Rome, and the ghostly spirits of slaughtered Roman legionaries. Enter Falco, an Imperial agent on a special mission: to find the absconding commander of a legion whose loyalty is suspect.

The war in Gaul is over, but the fight for Rome is only just beginning. Denied his consulship by the senate and nearing the end of his term as governor, Caesar waits at Ravenna with one legion, making a last attempt at reconciliation. Threatened with prosecution if he returns to Rome, just one...

Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour, and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Here, new outrages - gas, shell-shock - present themselves.

Daisy and Frederica Linden have tracked their missing father to Bodie, the most dangerous town in the Wild West, where bad men murder without guilt and single ladies are as rare and valuable as gold. Here they must depend upon the help of the society of absent friends, that secret network of boardinghouse keepers who know everyone's business - and make secrets their stock in trade. 

Tarzan of the Apes, Jason Gridley, and the crew of the airship O-220 return to Pellucidar, the world at the Earth’s core, on a wartime mission to stop the Nazis from obtaining a powerful superweapon. But when the Lord of the Jungle’s murderous adversaries partner with the Mahars - Pellucidar’s routed reptilian overlords - and his adventurous granddaughter Suzanne goes missing on a reconnaissance mission, can Tarzan prevent the conquest and enslavement of all humanity in both the inner and outer worlds?

Before Julius Caesar ruled Rome, his uncle Gaius Marius was the most powerful man in the eternal city. Once a provincial nobody with a ruined family, Marius only had one way to power: the sword. Years later, he writes to his protege Quintus Sertorius, explaining to him how he rose through the ranks of the Roman legion to become the most powerful man in the Republic. He wants to encourage and inspire the young man but gets lost in the retelling of his first experience of war, love, and killing.

Set in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City, in the years 1857-1863, when America's attitudes toward people of color and slavery shifted—painfully, transformationally—to the point where a war that began to restore the union becomes one that owes much to Black fighting regiments, and common cause grows for the abolition of slavery. We experience the daily life of Five Points through the eyes of Theo, aged seven at the start of the book and 13 at its close. Theo is half Black and half Irish, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents. 

Marsin nettipäiväkirjat on blogipäiväkirjojen muotoon puettu humoristinen tieteissaippuaooppera, joka kertoo tosi-tv-tähtien matkasta punaiselle planeetalle ja heidän seikkailuistaan siellä. Toisessa osassa selviydytään Marsissa.

Nunca es demasiado tarde para huir de aquello que te hace daño. Fueron las palabras que decidí dejar guardadas para siempre sobre mi piel. Estaba dispuesta a superar la violencia y los malos recuerdos de una relación fallida para cumplir mi sueño. El único sueño que recuerdo haber tenido durante toda mi vida: Contarle al mundo las historias que creaba en mi cabeza. Aunque solo una persona las leyera, para mí era suficiente. En el camino hacia el autodescubrimiento atravesé varias tormentas y, en medio de ellas, conocí a mi dios de la guerra, lleno de remordimientos y resentimientos.

Twenty-eight-year-old Kyla Marshall has desires of advancing her career in public relations at all costs...until she ends up stumbling in on a special ops mission that takes her from her client’s lab in the year 2017 to AD 8 ancient Rome. After learning her new reality, she discovers that the team’s mission is to stop a biochemical scientist from unleashing a deadly virus on the unsuspecting first-century people in order to change history. As Kyla encounters hostility and strife on her journey, she is surprisingly protected by the team's leader, Capt. Christopher Eriksen.