By Alexander Jovy

This wonderful novel brings old Persia to existence, and divulges the eye-catching tale of Cyrus himself, a brave chief whose ardour received the hearts of his matters and fanatics alike. 

Cyrus's imaginative and prescient of a society the place non secular tolerance might and may be triumphant encouraged the basis of his impressive empire, but he used to be ruthless in his conquests, and historic Lydia and the fabled urban of Babylon fell to him. 

The ebook positive factors an emotional love tale and riveting conflict scenes, and is written with an strength and keenness that infuse each page. I Am Cyrus brings heritage alive as few different novels do. it truly is filled with motion, ardour, comedy, tragedy and proposal. Its subject that real co-operation among humans is barely gained via tolerance, is profoundly correct to our personal times. 

I Am Cyrus is a narrative that has been just about Alexander Jovy's center for a few years and he remembers his father telling him approximately old Persia and the mysteries it holds: 'I used to be interested even then how such an early civilization can have completed a lot and be so unknown to our glossy world.'

By Paul Christopher

From america this day Bestselling writer of The Sword of the Templars and The Aztec Heresy a few secrets and techniques are too nice to bear... Retired military Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his educating place at West element while younger Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou involves him with determined information. Holliday's niece-and Rafi's fianc?-Peggy has been abducted. Holliday units out with Rafi to discover the single kin he has left. yet their look for Peggy will make them a path of clues that spans around the globe, and into the guts of a conspiracy related to an historical Egyptian legend and the darkest secrets and techniques of the Order of Templar Knights. secrets and techniques that, as soon as recognized, can't be survived...

By Booth Tarkington

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize whilst it was once first released in 1918, The very good Ambersons chronicles the altering fortunes of 3 generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of sales space Tarkington's nice old drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and smug grandson of the founding father of the family's beauty. Eclipsed through a brand new breed of builders, financiers, and brands, this pampered scion starts his sluggish descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the operating type.

Today The excellent Ambersons is better identified throughout the 1942 Orson Welles motion picture, yet because the critic Stanley Kauffmann famous, "It is excessive time that [the novel] seem back, to face outdoor the strength of Welles's genius, convinced in its personal right."

"The amazing Ambersons might be Tarkington's most sensible novel," judged Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a standard tale of an American relatives and town--the nice family members that in the community governed the roost and vanished almost in an afternoon because the city unfold and darkened right into a urban. This novel doubtless was once an everlasting web page within the social background of the us, so admirably conceived and written was once the story of the Ambersons, their residence, their destiny and the expansion of the neighborhood during which they have been submerged within the end."

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By Stephanie Barron

Jane Austen turns sleuth during this pleasant homicide secret set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.

Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the vacation with friends and family on the Vyne, the attractive ancestral domestic of the rich and politically well known Chute kinfolk. because the 12 months fades and neighbors start to assemble underneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory temper: Mansfield Park is promoting properly; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams symptoms the Treaty of Ghent, to be able to finish a warfare no one in England rather wanted.
 
Jane, even though, discovers vacation cheer is fleeting. one of many xmas revelers dies in a sad coincidence, which Jane instantly perspectives with suspicion. If the twist of fate used to be actually homicide, the killer is certainly one of Jane’s fellow snow-bound visitors. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, darkish secrets and techniques coming to mild in the course of parlor video games, and previous friendships returning to hang-out the Christmas events, whom can Jane belief to assist her become aware of the reality and forestall the killer from amazing again?

From the Hardcover edition.

By Donald McCaig

Approved through the Margaret Mitchell property, this is the first-ever prequel to at least one of the main cherished and bestselling novels of all time, long gone with the Wind. The significantly acclaimed writer of Rhett Butler’s humans magnificently recounts the lifetime of Mammy, certainly one of literature’s maximum assisting characters, from her days as a slave lady to the outbreak of the Civil War.

“Her tale all started with a miracle.” at the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island ate up through the flames of revolution, a mindless assault leaves just one survivor—an child woman. She falls into the arms of 2 French émigrés, Henri and Solange Fournier, who take the gorgeous baby they name Ruth to the bustling American urban of Savannah.

What follows is the sweeping story of Ruth’s existence as formed by means of her strong-willed mistress and different larger-than-life personalities she encounters within the South: Jehu Glen, a unfastened black guy with whom Ruth falls head over heels in love; the shabbily genteel relatives that first hires Ruth as Mammy; Solange’s daughter Ellen and the tough Irishman, Gerald O’Hara, whom Ellen chooses to marry; the Butler relatives of Charleston and their surprising connection to Mammy Ruth; and at last Scarlett O’Hara—the irrepressible Southern belle Mammy increases from delivery. As we witness the tough coming of age felt via 3 generations of girls, talented storyteller Donald McCaig unearths a portrait of Mammy that's either nuanced and poignant, straight away a proud lady and a captive, and a strict disciplinarian who hasn't ever skilled freedom herself. yet regardless of the cruelties of a global that has decreed her a slave, Mammy endures, a rock within the river of time. She loves with a ferocity that will astonish these round her in the event that they knew it. and he or she holds tight even to people who were misplaced within the ravages of her days.

Set opposed to the backdrop of the South from the 1820s till the sunrise of the Civil conflict, here's a striking tale of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will—and a story that would eternally remove darkness from your examining of Margaret Mitchell’s unforgettable vintage, long gone with the Wind.

By Maryse Rouy

Après ses romans inspirés par le Moyen Âge français, Maryse Rouy nous raconte cette fois une histoire québécoise inspirée de faits vécus. Avec cette écriture vivante et directe qu’on lui connaît, l’auteure hint le portrait d’une jeune femme volontaire et généreuse qui prend position parmi les héroïnes les plus fortes et les plus attachantes du roman contemporain.

Printemps 1833. À l. a. suite de l. a. décision de son père, Mary, à peine âgée de 14 ans, quitte l’Irlande pour les États-Unis. Une épouvantable tempête aggrave les stipulations de voyage, déjà très difficiles. À Québec, où le bateau fait escale, son oncle et sa tante, qui s’étaient engagés à veiller sur elle, l’abandonnent.

Seule dans un will pay inconnu, Mary n’est pourtant pas de celles qui pleurent sur leur kind. Elle se bat pour survivre, travaille, s’engage dans l. a. vie, mûrit au fil des épreuves. De l’île d’Orléans à Québec, puis à Berthier, en cette période troublée qui mène à l. a. rébellion de 1837, elle côtoie l. a. maladie et los angeles mort, rencontre l’amitié, trouve l’amour.

By Diana Gabaldon

During this wealthy, brilliant story, Diana Gabaldon keeps the tale of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that started with the now-classic novel Outlander and endured in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the unique West Indies, Diana Gabaldon weaves magic once more in a thrilling and totally unforgettable novel....

Their love affair occurred in the past via no matter what dimension Claire Randall took. twenty years earlier than, she had traveled again in time and into the palms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she again to her personal century to endure his baby, believing him useless within the tragic conflict of Culloden. but his reminiscence hasn't ever lessened its carry on her ... and her physique nonetheless cries out for him in her dreams.

When she discovers that Jamie can have survived, Claire needs to pick out her future. And as time and area come complete circle, she needs to locate the braveness to stand what awaits her ... the lethal intrigues raging in a divided Scotland ... and the bold voyage into the darkish unknown that lies past the status stones.

By Philip Roth

Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a giant Newark roughneck blighted through a brutal own mystery from which he's eternally in flight. An idealistic Communist, a self-educated ditchdigger grew to become well known performer, a six-foot six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike, he marries the nation's reigning radio actress and cherished silent-film celebrity, the beautiful Eve body (born Chava Fromkin). Their marriage evolves from a glamorous, romantic idyll right into a dispiriting cleaning soap opera of tears and treachery. And with Eve's dramatic revelation to the gossip columnist Bryden provide of her husband's lifetime of "espionage" for the Soviet Union, the connection enlarges from deepest drama into nationwide scandal. Set within the center of the McCarthy period, the tale of Iron Rinn's denunciation and shame brings to harrowing lifestyles the human drama that was once valuable to the nation's political tribulations at nighttime years of betrayal, the blacklist, and naming names. I Married a Communist is an American tragedy as in basic terms Philip Roth might write it.

By Robert Goddard

An exhilarating mixture of espionage, treachery and homicide set within the aftermath of the 1st global warfare from the grasp of the triple-cross.
Spring, 1919. James 'Max' Maxted, former nice battle flying ace, returns to the path of homicide, treachery and half-buried secrets and techniques he set out on within the methods of the realm. He left Paris after avenging the homicide of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, a senior member of the British delegation to the post-war peace convention. yet he used to be confident there has been extra -- even more -- to be chanced on approximately what Sir Henry were attempting to accomplish. And he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the reality of it.
Now, enlisted lower than fake shades in Lemmer's provider yet along with his loyalty pledged to the British mystery carrier, Max units out on his first -- and doubtless final -- venture for Lemmer. It takes him to the some distance north of Scotland -- to the Orkney Isles, the place the German excessive Seas Fleet has been impounded in Scapa circulate, its destiny to be determined on the conference-table in Paris. Max has been despatched to get better a rfile held aboard one of many German ships. What that record includes forces him to damage conceal prior to he may have needed and to embark on a determined race south, in the direction of London, with info that can break Lemmer -- if Max, as turns out not likely, lives to convey it.

By Maurice Druon

Charles IV is now king of France and his sister is Edward II of England's Queen. Having been imprisoned through Edward as chief of the rebellious English barons, Roger Mortimer escapes to France, the place he joins the warfare opposed to the English Aquitaine. however it is his love affair with Isabella, the 'She-Wolf of France', who has come possible to barter a treaty of peace that seals his fate...