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Caeli-Amur volume 1
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A hundred years ago, the Minotaurs saved Caeli-Amur from conquest. Now, three very different people may hold the keys to the city's survival. Once, it is said, gods used magic to create reality, with powers that defied explanation. But the magic--or science, if one believes those who try to master the dangers of thaumaturgy--now seems more like a dream. Industrial workers for House Technis, farmers for House Arbor, and fisher folk of House Marin eke...
2) Salammbo
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French novelist and short story writer, Gustave Flaubert, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word in every piece of literature he produced. As a child he expressed great imagination and took in all the stories he could from his nurse and neighbors, and in doing so, he prepared himself for a life consumed by literature and history. In addition to his "Madame Bovary", his first published novel and the one...
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Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful Silent Monk; and the vengeance-bent Golden Sparrow. Jason...
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The Library: Only a handful know it exists. It holds the world's most astonishing and terrifying information. But the one book that is the key to the greatest secret of all time is missing. Former FBI Special Agent Will Piper solved and survived the "Doomsday Killer" case and his reward was a forced early retirement. But the shattering truths he learned about the government's most covert operations won't let him rest and now he's on the trail of...
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Prince of nothing volume 3
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Set in a world of Holy Wars and apocalyptic consequences, where a powerful warrier philosopher rules everything and uses his skills as a magician to prepare himself for the inevitable final battle of conquest or defeat. In a follow-up to The Darkness That Comes Before, warrior-philosopher Anasrimbor Kelhus continues his quest to reunite with his father, reach the ancient city of Shimeh, and master ancient arts that will enable him to overcome his...
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"The False Gods" by George Horace Lorimer. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks...
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT died when he was quite young. He was but thirty-two years of age, when he ended his career, and as he was about twenty, when he commenced it, it was only for a period of twelve-years that he was actually engaged in performing the work of his life. Napoleon was nearly three times as long on the great field of human action. Notwithstanding the briefness of Alexander's career, he ran through, during that short period, a very brilliant...
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World of Hetar volume 2
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From one of the original masters of romance, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Bertrice Small invites you back to the magical, sensual world of Hetar. The time of peace is over. After the murder of her husband, Lara, half faerie, half human, must leave the home she has made in the Outlands and follow the destiny that has long called her. Using her brilliant sword and even sharper mind, Lara must journey toward the coast, seeking alliances...
10) She and Allan
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She and Allan is one of H. Rider Haggard's most exciting novels of adventure and romance. In bringing together two of his most compelling characters, Allan Quatermain, the quirky English Big-Game hunter and explorer, and the seductive and iconic supernatural African Queen Ayesha, or popularly known as "she-who-must-be-obeyed," Haggard has created one of the most exciting stories in his body of work.
When Allan Quatermain seeks out the Zulu witch-doctor...
11) Leo Rising
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Leo Rising is tale of epic proportions that ties together two lives separated by 13,000 years of change, yet mysteriously bound by destiny and birthright. Kala, high priestess to Inanna the goddess of love and fertility, is a daughter of the Anakim, and descended from the Anunnaki, the gods themselves. As the grand cycle passes from the age of Virgo to the Age of Leo, what has been foretold and feared has now come to be. Kala must defend the ancient...
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A masterful continuation of the journey of Odysseus after he returned home from his odyssey.
Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. Countless readers have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering?
Narrated by Telemachus to...
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Delphic women novels volume 3
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In the aftermath of the fall of Troy, the rescue of captive Princess Cassandra, the extramarital affair of Queen Clytemnestra, and a secret held by the king's daughter Electra complicate Odysseus's return to Ithaca.
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Unzari, the sole survivor of Atlantis following its volcanic destruction, seeks out Amanishakete's help to save the library of Atlantis that he says contains the technological secrets of their advanced civilisation. But his motives are entirely different, threatening the secrets of the Royal Alexandrian Library and putting Amanishakete and Sabine in grave danger, as they journey with an ancient deity to the Forge of Vulcan and then along the Silk...
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Aboriginal anthropology student, Rex Graham, struggles to uncover new research necessary for his graduate thesis-Cultural, philosophical, spiritual, creative and intellectual characteristics of pre-European Aboriginal Societies. His first submission covered a vast expanse of required information, and he is unable to pinpoint additional research to complete the required article, so he to returns to the meeting tree, Gran Yan, hoping to gain inspiration.
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Rex Graham, a part-Aboriginal student of anthropology, is searching for his own indigenous ancestral history: customs, language, and Dreamtime legends. Due to a lifetime bond to his Aboriginal grandmother, he is enlightened after her passing, when he discoverers the key to his lost people's history and traditional history: preserved in artwork bequeathed to him on her deathbed. Driven by a passion for learning the truth about the simplistic drawings,...
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Following the events of the Glass Empires, Age of the Third Arcon, and Populla's Shadow, Dawn of the Sun Panther follows the exploits of four different champions; seeking to make their mark and do what they can to stave off total destruction, in the endless wars of the Greater Continent, and beyond. Following calamitous events in the hidden city, beneath Molina, it appeared that the shadows were abated. However, the danger had not yet passed, as the...
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Stolen from her life near the Western Sea, Brigid struggles for her freedom and her dream to revive the ancient Irish gods. She desperately searches for Patrick, who escapes slavery and returns home to Britannia. There, he finds his purpose in the Christian priesthood. Brigid creates a druid school, which she must protect from the ruthless Maithghean, still determined to control her and school. In order to survive, she must span two worlds and two...
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In 1258 Wazir Marzban saves the House of Wisdom, the great library created in the round city of Baghdad, from destruction by the Mongol army. In 2018 Professor Hakim Azzi seeks out Amanishakete and Sabine in London to help rescue the entire library that history had wrongly recorded was totally destroyed by the Mongol Horde. But Azzi has already sold two documents from the House of Wisdom on the open market, starting a race between Wolfram von Sternberg...
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