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Ponniyin Selvan - Part 3 by Kalki
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis ebook is a product of Kizhakku pathippagam, which is a imprint of New Horizon Media Private Limited (NHM)... -
![The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett]()
The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks... -
![Musashi, Volume II by Eiji Yoshikawa]()
Musashi, Volume II by Eiji Yoshikawa
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMusashi, o grande romance épico japonês do século XX, com mais de 120 milhões de exemplares vendidos em suas diversas edições, além de inúmeras versões para cinema e televisão é a história de Miyamoto Musashi, na vida real o grande samurai do Japão da época dos xoguns... -
![The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett]()
The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe...Categorized as:
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![Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett]()
Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe...Categorized as:
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![War And Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy]()
War And Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...Categorized as:
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![Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa]()
Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"In the tempestuous closing decades of the sixteenth century, the Empire of Japan writhes in chaos as the shogunate crumbles and rival warlords battle for supremacy. Warrior monks in their armed citadels block the road to the capital; castles are destroyed, villages plundered, fields put to the touch." "Amid this devastation, three men dream of uniting the nation... -
![The Chief's Maiden by Cecelia Mecca]()
The Chief's Maiden by Cecelia Mecca
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Scottish chief. An English maiden. Their forbidden love threatens to destroy them both. The Chief The Scottish king gives Toren Kerr a dangerous but important mission—kill the English Warden. The man’s rumored corruption threatens to destroy the fragile peace along the border, and Toren reluctantly agrees to do his duty... -
![西游记 by Wu Cheng'en]()
西游记 by Wu Cheng'en
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJourney to the West is one of the Greatest Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Originally published in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty, by Wu Cheng'en.The novel is a mythical story of the legends around a Chinese Buddhist monk's quest to India to obtain Buddhist religious text...Categorized as:
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![A World Apart by Gretta Curran Browne]()
A World Apart by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Michael Dwyer story continues ... powerful in its drama and truth ... and his fame in the history of Ireland begins.Now a close friend of Robert Emmet, Michael does everything in his power to help the young aristocrat succeed in his revolutionary aims, but traitors abound everywhere, attempting to bring down both young men...Categorized as:
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![Heir to the Crown by Ron C. Nieto]()
Heir to the Crown by Ron C. Nieto
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe raiding season might be over, but the court is a new threat on its own …A victorious Oren, newly minted Lord Commander of the Mountain Guard, returns to the capital to receive the King’s accolades and to ask for the one thing he wants as his prize—the right to marry the woman he loves.But the court is a dangerous place, and nothing is as Oren expects when he arrives at his childhood home... -
![The Falcon Queen by Johanna Wittenberg]()
The Falcon Queen by Johanna Wittenberg
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE FALCON QUEEN(The Norsewomen Book 2)Ninth century Norway, the island of Tromøy.Åsa has won back her father’s kingdom, but can she hold it? The evil shapeshifter Hrolf lurks in the hinterlands, plotting revenge. The powerful Danes threaten from across the Skagerrak Sea, demanding marriage in exchange for peace, while her only ally, Olaf, presses his own suit...Categorized as:
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![Son of Anger: A fast-paced Viking Saga filled with action and adventure by Donovan Cook]()
Son of Anger: A fast-paced Viking Saga filled with action and adventure by Donovan Cook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Norse warriors, gods and all things epic. This tale of vengeance is nothing short of exciting." Reedsy ReviewUlf is like a storm, slowly building up its power, he grows more dangerous with each passing moment. And like all storms, he will eventually break. When he does, he will destroy everything in his path.Ulf is one of a long line of famous Norse warriors... -
![Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf]()
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe... -
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![The Singing Sword by Jack Whyte]()
The Singing Sword by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWe know the legends: Arthur brought justice to a land that had known only cruelty and force; his father, Uther, carved a kingdom out of the chaos of the fallen Roman Empire; the sword Excalibur, drawn from stone by England's greatest king.But legends do not tell the whole tale... -
![The Eagles' Brood by Jack Whyte]()
The Eagles' Brood by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe Eagles' Brood continues the saga of the Colony known as Camulod, and the tale of the descendants of those brave Romans who forged a new way of life for the Celt and Roman peoples when the Roman legions departed Britain.Most know the new leader of the Colony as Merlyn; all call him Commander... -
![Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon]()
Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHistorical Romance Large Print Edition For Ang lique, 17th-century Paris is a city of wild love and vicious hatred. Penniless, alone and sworn to take revenge on those who were responsible for her husband s death, she plunges into the dangerous underworld of the city to the nightmare Court of Miracles, a world of deformity, degradation, violence and lust...Categorized as:
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![The Fields by Conrad Richter]()
The Fields by Conrad Richter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsConrad Richter's trilogy of novels The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) trace the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The Fields continues the saga of the Luckett family that began in The Trees...Categorized as:
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![The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du, Alexander Barton Woodside]()
The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du, Alexander Barton Woodside
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSince its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature...Categorized as:
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![The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis by Jack Whyte]()
The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThroughout the widely praised Camulod Chronicles, Merlyn Britannicus has been driven by one sacred dream--to see Britain united under one just, powerful king. In The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis, it is time for the Sorcerer to fulfill his promise--to present the battle-proven Arthur as the Riothamus, the High King of Britain... -
![Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts]()
Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis classic novel follows the career of Major Rogers, whose incredible exploits during the French and Indian Wars are told through Langdon Towne, an artist and Harvard student who flees trouble to join the army...Categorized as:
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![Ramayana by Vālmīki]()
Ramayana by Vālmīki
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana...Categorized as:
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![The Fort at River's Bend by Jack Whyte]()
The Fort at River's Bend by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMerlyn Britannicus, leader of the colony known as Camulod, is faced with the task of educating his young charge, Arthur, future King of the Britons. Fearing for the life of his nephew when an assassination attempt is thwarted, Merlyn takes Arthur and his boyhood companions Gwin, Ghilleadh, and Bedwyr, to the ruins of a long-abandoned Roman fort far from Camulod... -
![Raj Kahini by Abanindranath Tagore]()
Raj Kahini by Abanindranath Tagore
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings<span><span>An unforgettable historical novella that leads you to the flowing sand dunes of Rajasthan, the clash of swords, to the courtyard of kings and queens. The book captures the spirit of a heroic past that never fails to move readers even today...Categorized as:
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![Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos]()
Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBarbados 1652. In the aftermath of the English Civil War, the vanquished are uprooted and scattered to the ends of the earth. When marauding English soldiers descend on Mairead O’Coneill’s family farm, she is sold into indentured servitude...Categorized as:
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![Captain of the Guard by Ron C. Nieto]()
Captain of the Guard by Ron C. Nieto
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOren Trevaine has never shaken the feeling that he’s not good enough, but he’s determined to avoid the same fate for his men. Oren’s first task as Captain of the Guard is to transform his unruly, undisciplined soldiers into a formidable army—if only they would cooperate.But Oren will need to act fast because the snow is melting with the budding of spring... -
![Great Maria by Cecelia Holland]()
Great Maria by Cecelia Holland
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHer father is a robber baron... Her husband has grand ambitions and a quick temper... She will become... The Great Maria...Categorized as:
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![Morgarten by J.K. Swift]()
Morgarten by J.K. Swift
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA small force of peasants from the forest regions surrounding Lake Lucerne, rise up against their Austrian overlords in the 14th century. Outnumbered seven-to-one by the battle-hardened Habsburg army, they have little hope.A daring moonlight raid leaves the outlaw Noll Melchthal in possession of an Austrian fortress... -
![El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]()
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork...Categorized as:
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![The Adventures of Robin Hood by Joseph Walker McSpadden]()
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Joseph Walker McSpadden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe classic story of the man who robbed from the rich to give to the poor comes alive with vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Greg Hildebrandt. Escape to Sherwood Forest and join the jolly Fellowship of the Greenwood with these rollicking tales of the celebrated archer and gentleman thief...Categorized as:
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![Clothar The Frank: A Dream of Eagles Book VI, The Golden Eagle Volume I by Jack Whyte]()
Clothar The Frank: A Dream of Eagles Book VI, The Golden Eagle Volume I by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Clothar the Frank, the first novel of a two-book miniseries called The Golden Eagle, Jack Whyte invites us to explore his cast of fascinating characters during the reign and tragic downfall of the Riothamus Arthur, High King of All Britain. From Gaul, now the land of the Franks, comes young Clothar, the son of one king and the nephew of another... -
![Le Morte d'Arthur Volume 2: King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, D. Gardner]()
Le Morte d'Arthur Volume 2: King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, D. Gardner
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe full work of Thomas Malory...Categorized as:
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![The Lance Thrower by Jack Whyte]()
The Lance Thrower by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsJack Whyte has written a lyrical epic, retelling the myths behind the boy who would become the Man Who Would Be King--Arthur Pendragon. He has shown us, as Diana Gabaldon said, "the bone beneath the flesh of legend." In his last book in this series, we witnessed the young king pull the sword from the stone and begin his journey to greatness... -
![The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer]()
The Iliad/The Odyssey by Homer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 61 ratingsGripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Odyssey' is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life...Categorized as:
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![King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory]()
King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThomas Malory, knight, adventurer, and soldier, was born in the early years of the fifteenth century and died on March 14, 1471, having spent much of the last twenty years of his life in prison. It was there that he wrote most, if not all, of his works, completing the last in about 1470...Categorized as:
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![Uther by Jack Whyte]()
Uther by Jack Whyte
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWith Uther, Jack Whyte, author of the richly praised Camulod Chronicles, has given us a portrait of Uther Pendragon, Merlyn's shadow--his boyhood companion and closest friend. And the man who would sire the King of the Britons.From the trials of boyhood to the new cloak of adult responsibility, we see Uther with fresh eyes... -
![The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath by Luo Guanzhong]()
The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath by Luo Guanzhong
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago... -
![Fluch Der Begierde by May McGoldrick]()
Fluch Der Begierde by May McGoldrick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWANTED…for crimes against the king. In retaliation for the brutality of the English troops. The Irish rebel Egan is fighting back, leading a secret group of revolutionaries—and building his legend across the country. REJECTED…by his own family. Jane Purefoy is a woman with a past. The daughter of an English magistrate, she watched her Irish lover die on the gallows... -
![Stories from Around the World by Heather Amery]()
Stories from Around the World by Heather Amery
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe stories in this book, one from each major country or area of the world, are written in a way that young listeners and young readers will find easy to understand and...Categorized as:
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![Pendragon's Banner by Helen Hollick]()
Pendragon's Banner by Helen Hollick
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho was the man ... who became the legend ... we know as KING ARTHUR? Pendragon's Banner is the second book in Helen Hollick's exciting King Arthur trilogy, covering 459-465 A.D. This is not a fairy tale or fantasy. There is no Merlin, no sword in the stone, and no Lancelot. This is the most accurate Arthurian legend ever written, based on historical evidence and meticulous research...Categorized as:
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![The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Tania Zamorsky, Howard Pyle]()
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Tania Zamorsky, Howard Pyle
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the sword in the stone and the founding of Camelot to the famed Round Table and the Lake of Enchantment, the legend of King Arthur will never lose its magic. Though simpler, this version includes all the wonderful stories—such as King Arthur’s winning of Guenievere and Merlin’s tragic downfall at the hands of the evil Vivien...Categorized as:
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![The Little Duke by Charlotte Mary Yonge]()
The Little Duke by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions...Categorized as:
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![Tales of Robin Hood by Tony Allan, Felicity Brooks]()
Tales of Robin Hood by Tony Allan, Felicity Brooks
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings-- Filled with adventure, excitement and suspense-- Action-packed illustrations help bring the stories to...Categorized as:
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![Blaze Wyndham by Bertrice Small]()
Blaze Wyndham by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling "resigning queen of romance" (Literary Times), comes a love story on a grand scale, featuring an innocent country girl who catches the eye of the most powerful man in England-and filled with all the sensuality, drama, and thrilling intrigues of Henry Tudor's glittering sixteenth century court..Categorized as:
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![BY EASTERN WINDOWS by Gretta Curran Browne]()
BY EASTERN WINDOWS by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Stand-Alone Novel - also Book One of The Macquarie Series “Fabulous and heartbreaking … fresh and authentic in every detail … it has to be the best book I have read about the British in India since M. M. Kaye’s "The Far Pavilions" – Dr Aileen Keegan...Categorized as:
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![The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green]()
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRobin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed by 12th-century England against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache. This book presents the story of social justice and cunning...Categorized as:
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![Loistava orsini by Samuel Shellabarger]()
Loistava orsini by Samuel Shellabarger
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA swashbuckling tale of Italy in the 1500s...Categorized as:
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![The Prince of Thieves by Alexandre Dumas]()
The Prince of Thieves by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe first volume of Alexandre Dumas' two-part interpretation of the story of Robin Hood, popularized for Nineteenth Century audiences by Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, set in England in 1162-66...Categorized as:
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![The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Anonymous]()
The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Anonymous
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient books...Categorized as:
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![The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer by Anonymous]()
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer by Anonymous
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne of the great books of world literature--an unforgettable tale of jealousy, unrequited love, greed, and vengeance. Based on Viking Age poems and composed in thirteenth-century Iceland, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend, and sheer human drama in telling of the heroic deeds of Sigurd the dragon slayer, who acquires runic knowledge from one of Odin's Valkyries...
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