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Las legiones malditas by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPublio Cornelio Escipión. que pasaría a la historia con el sobrenombre de Africanas. sólo tenía 26 años cuando aceptó comandar las tropas romanas en Hispania. Poseedor de las cualidades militares de su padre y su tío. el joven Escipión también heredó a algunos de los feroces enemigos de éstos. como Asdrúbal. el hermano de Aníbal. o el general pánico Ciscón...Categorized as:
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Kukum by Michel Jean
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratings«C'est un de ces soirs où je trayais les vaches dans la lumière du soleil couchant que je l'ai vu pour la première fois. Un canot est apparu, descendant en silence la rivière. Un homme torse nu, à la peau cuivrée, ramait sans se presser, se laissant pousser par le courant. Il paraissait à peine plus âgé que moi. Nos regards se sont croisés. Il n'a pas souri. Et je n'ai pas eu peur... -
Circo Máximo: La ira de Trajano by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCirco Máximo es la historia de Trajano y su gobierno, guerras y traiciones, lealtades insobornables e historias de amor imposibles. Hay una vestal, un juicio, inocentes acusados, un abogado especial, mensajes cifrados, códigos secretos, batallas campales, fortalezas inexpugnables, asedios sin fin, dos aurigas rivales, el Anfiteatro, los gladiadores y tres carreras de cuadrigas...Categorized as:
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La legión perdida by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEn el año 53 a. C. el cónsul Craso emprendió una campaña para conquistar Oriente, pero su ejército fue destrozado en Carrhae por los partos. Una legión entera cayó prisionera y desapareció de la historia. Nadie sabe qué sucedió con aquellos hombres.Ciento cincuenta años después, las tropas romanas están a punto de volver a cruzar el Éufrates... -
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Born a Colored Girl by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation and A Slave's Song - Two slaves, a mother and daughter, separated during the Civil War never to see each other again. From her mother's diary, Etta Jean will learn to love the mother she never knew. And from the same diary, a mother will finally give of herself... -
Sarah Mayfield by J.S. Anthony
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn unexpected journey of the heart.The war is over and Sarah Mayfield has put the sorrows of her life in Virginia behind her. On the strength of three letters she has traveled by railroad, riverboat and stagecoach to meet her new life out west...Categorized as:
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Embrace the Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe American Civil War plunges Zeke and Abbie Monroe into violence and separation, danger and torn loyalties. Their first-born son, Wolf’s Blood, takes part in the Sun Dance, a tortuous ritual that initiates him into life with the Cheyenne. Then war forces Zeke to leave his family to join his white brother, Danny, in the conflict...Categorized as:
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River of Love by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbigail Monroe had been pierced by an arrow as a young girl...and pierced even more deeply by the love of a half-breed Cheyenne brave named Lone Eagle. But now Abigail and Lone Eagle could lose everything--and each other. Trouble was coming across the Plains to challenge them and test their love. No longer could they hide in a paradise of their own making...Categorized as:
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Eagle's Song by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEAGLE'S SONG is the final book in the Savage Destiny series, taking readers into the lives of Zeke and Abbie's children and grandchildren. This very moving story depicts the emotional end of an era for a once wild and free People, America's Native Americans; and the sometimes traumatic changes in the American West as civilization moves in to tame a lawless land...Categorized as:
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Meet the New Dawn by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this totally unforgettable sixth book in the Savage Destiny series, a relentless wave of frontier progress forces itself into the lives of Zeke and Abbie Monroe, threatening their many years of abiding love and forcing a separation unlike any other they have experienced...Categorized as:
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Climb the Highest Mountain by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEver since her gaze locked with Lone Eagle's over a crimson campfire, young Abigail Trent knew her fate lay with the virile Cheyenne scout. She had married him, borne him children, and endured all the hardships of the rugged frontier. But even though so many years had passed, each night found the white squaw melded to her Indian mate, burning with the need to prove their passion again and again... -
Rise of Augustus by R.W. Peake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the penultimate chapter of the saga of Titus Pullus, Legionary of Rome, Titus has been promoted to the newly formalized post of Camp Prefect, by Gaius Octavianus Caesar, who will become known as Augustus...Categorized as:
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Ride The Free Wind by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAbandoning everything she had ever known, Abigail Trent left her family and chose her fate--to ride with Zeke Monroe, half-Cheyenne scout, into the unexplored west. Together they faced peril, until Zeke found his mother's people and became Lone Eagle, turning his back on the white man's world. To stay with him, Abigail must become Cheyenne too--even if it means death and warfare... -
The Return by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeautiful and winsome, Betsy Zook never questioned her family's rigid expectations, nor those of devoted Hans, but then she never had to. Not until the night when she's taken captive in a surprise Indian raid. During her captivity, Betsy faces brutality and hardship, but also unexpected kindness. She draws strength from native Caleb, who encourages her to find God in all circumstances... -
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The Poacher’s Daughter: A Western Story by Michael Zimmer
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Poacher’s Daughter is an extraordinary story of betrayal and redemption, set within an uncompromising landscape of raw brutality and unimaginable beauty. In 1885 young Rose Edwards is widowed by Montana vigilantes who hang her husband for an alleged theft, then burn her Yellowstone Valley cabin to the ground as a warning for her and others of her kind to quit the territory...Categorized as:
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Σαλαμίνα by Javier Negrete
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings480 π.Χ. Η αρχαία Αθήνα της δημοκρατίας και της φιλοσοφίας βρίσκεται αντιμέτωπη με μια τεράστια απειλή. Η γιγαντιαία Περσική Αυτοκρατορία είναι αποφασισμένη να καταστρέψει την πόλη-σύμβολο και να κατακτήσει ολόκληρη την Ελλάδα. Αυτή την κρίσιμη στιγμή, θα εμφανιστεί ένας άνθρωπος, ένας οραματιστής, ο μόνος που φαίνεται ικανός να πάρει την κατάσταση στα χέρια του: ο Θεμιστοκλής...Categorized as:
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Homecoming by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA historical holiday story of homecoming and second-chance romance by NAACP Image Award Nominee, Beverly Jenkins. In 1883, Lydia Cooper is happily traveling back home to celebrate the simple joys of the holidays when an unexpected complication appears in the all-too-distracting form of Gray Dane, the man she loved as a girl; the man she left behind... -
Tame the Savage Heart by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the best selling author of BUT HAVE NOT LOVE and BORN A COLORED GIRL comes a love story like no other. She was a young slave girl. He was an African warrior purchased at a slave auction with the intent he would father a new breed of stronger slave. Despite all odds, a language barrier and the disapproval of her family and friends, the two fight for a life together... -
The Wildcat by Hildie McQueen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe could marry the nice local farmer, or dare she get swept away by an intimidating warrior who is very much out of reach?Gideon Ross, the youngest brother to the heroic Lion, laird to the most powerful clan finally faces his destiny and it is not at all what he would have ever expected... -
Savage Horizons by Rosanne Bittner, F. Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUNTAMED PASSIONS AND WARRIOR'S BLOOD Before the white man walked the land, it belonged to the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Chippewa. But as trappers and pioneers pushed West, the days of innocence ended--and the nights of blood began. Left behind as a legacy of passion and shame was the White Indian called Blue Hawk by his Cheyenne people..Categorized as:
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Heart of the Sandhills by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGenevieve prayed: Please, God, let the people see who we are. Make them see past our skins and into our hearts. All we want is a place to be. Just a place to be. Is it too much to ask? Genevieve LaCroix Dane Two Stars, married for just a little more than a year, is thankful to be with her beloved husband, Daniel Two Stars... -
In the Shadow of the Mountains by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBold, headstrong, and passionate, the indomitable Kirklands struggled to survive in a treacherous, hostile land. From penniless settlers to wealthy mine owners to Denver's regal first family, together—and separately—they pursued their dazzling dreams of love and glory... -
Anthony and Cleopatra: Part II - Cleopatra by R.W. Peake
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the fourth book of the critically acclaimed Marching With Caesar series,Titus Pullus and his 10th Legion are still in the thick of the maelstrom that follows after the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar. With the disastrous campaign in Parthia behind them, Mark Antony continues his struggle with Octavian, both men vying for ultimate control of Rome...Categorized as:
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Antony and Cleopatra: Part I - Antony by R.W. Peake
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the third book of the critically acclaimed Marching With Caesar series, Titus Pullus and his 10th Legion are still in the thick of the maelstrom that follows after the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar...Categorized as:
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Wildest Dreams by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLettie MacBride knew that joining a wagon train heading West was her chance to begin anew, far from the devastating memories of the night that had changed her forever. She didn't believe she could escape the pain of innocence lost or feel desire for any man...until she meets Luke Fontaine. Haunted by his own secrets, Luke could never blame Lettie for what had happened in the past...Categorized as:
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Tame the Wild Wind by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHalf-breed Gabe Beaumont had had to choose between the Sioux tribe of his mother and the white family of his father, and his choice had cost him everything. Settlers had murdered his Indian wife and child, and now revenge was all he lived for...Categorized as:
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Comanche Sunset by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA mail order bride—and her heart—get ambushed in this moving historical western romance from the bestselling author of Sweet Mountain Magic. Mail order bride Jennifer Andrews heads to Texas ready for adventure. But when her stagecoach is attacked, the auburn-haired beauty wishes she had never left St. Louis...Categorized as:
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Blood on the Blade by Griff Hosker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsErik and his family are Norse who live on the island of Orkneyjar. Their world is thrown upside down when the King of Norway colludes with their jarl to take over their home. They flee to the land north of Mercia. Hoping for a life free from the tyranny of a king they have to fight Danes and Saxons... -
People of the Lakes by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsClan fighting over a powerful totemic mask has brought the Mound Builder people of the Great Lakes region to the edge of destruction. It is up to Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, to rid her people of this curse...Categorized as:
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Hanta Yo: An American Saga by Ruth Beebe Hill
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA multigenerational saga that depicts the lives of two families of Teton Sioux from the late 1700s to the 1830s, before the arrival of the white man...Categorized as:
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The Dawn Country by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe epic tale that began in "People of the Longhouse "continues in this second book of the thrilling new Iroquois quartet by "New York Times "and "USA Today "bestselling authors and archaeologists Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear. War Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda of the Standing Stone People have successfully rescued their children, Odion and Tutelo, from Gannajero the Trader... -
The Summoning God by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStep back into the year A.D. 1263...and the secret lair of a killer. He walks the ruins of a dying civilization, stalking the weak, the chosen, stalking them into terror.When War Chief Browser stumbles into a subterranean ceremonial chamber filled with headless bodies, he know it is just the beginning. The darkness that has haunted him for most of his life has returned... -
People of the Nightland by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt has been a thousand years since Wolf Dreamer lead his people up through the dark hole in the ice to a rich, untouched continent bursting with game. But the world has changed. Most of the magnificent animals are gone, and the last of the great glaciers is melting, forming a huge freshwater lake in the middle of the world. Over the centuries the People of the Wolf have split into two clans... -
People of the Mist by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith People of the Mist, bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear take us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entire Algonquin Nation against itself in a brutal war that could destroy them as a people...Categorized as:
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People of the Raven by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn People of the Raven, award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W...Categorized as:
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People of the Owl by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear are famous for writing novels about prehistoric America that are fast-paced, steeped in cultural detail, and smart. In People of the Owl they combine their distinctive trademark of high action with a rich psychological drama...Categorized as:
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My Sister the Moon by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn prehistoric Alaska, an Aleut girl, unwanted and abused, changes the destiny of her tribe.Gray Bird wanted only sons. His daughter, Kiin, would have been killed at birth to make way for a male heir if not for the tribal chief, Kayugh, who claimed the infant as a future wife for one of his two young sons...Categorized as:
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People of the Masks by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAs the prophets have foretold, a child of power has been born unto the Turtle People of the Iroquois Nation. The Elders call him False Face Child, for he is the son of a powerful spirit. A living talisman, the child has inhuman eyes--black mirrors, ageless and deep--and all fear him.All but Jumping Badger, the most powerful war leader of the Bear People...Categorized as:
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Sun Born by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent from its capital near modern St. Louis. From Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, settlers and priests carried word of the power of their gods. People who wouldn't bow to that power were conquered or slaughtered. At the heart of the empire stood a vast city, teeming with tens of thousands...Categorized as:
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Fathers and Crows by William T. Vollmann
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to The Ice-Shirt, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World...Categorized as:
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Savage Mists by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith dreams of peace for his people, Iron Cloud begins his quest for vengeance against the government agents who have abused them, by first abducting white woman Damita...Categorized as:
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Savage Passions by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLiving among the virgin forests of frontier Michigan, Yvonne secretly admires the cheiftain of a peaceful Ottawa tribe. A warrior with great mystical powers and many secrets, Silver Arrow tempts her heart. But white men and Indians alike threaten to keep them apart forever. Yvonne and Silver Arrow will need more than mere magic...Categorized as:
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Song of the Wolf by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn to be a Holy Woman among the Cheyenne, Medicine Wolf’s life as a young child is saved by a pack of wolves that keeps her from freezing to death. From then on, wolves are her guiding spirit and her protector. As she grows into womanhood, Medicine Wolf is forced to live among whites for one year, in an effort to learn the way of the white man... -
Savage Thunder by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor 10 years, he dreamed of the lovely girl with the crown of pink rosebuds in her flowing hair. She had mystically drawn him to her, and no woman since could compare. But when their canoes met one night in midstream, he discovered a full-blown passion that he had never imagined in the budding maiden...Categorized as:
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Savage Fires by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCrippled in a train accident and abandoned by her fiancee, lawyer Josephine Taylor Stanton believes no one will love her in a wheelchair, until a proud, handsome Ottawa chief shows up in her office looking for someone to help his people...Categorized as:
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Savage Secrets by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSearching the wilds of the Wyoming Territory for her outlaw brother, Rebecca Veach is captured by the one man who fulfilled her heart's desires. But could she give herself to Blazing Eagle without telling him about her shameful quest? He wants her from the moment he sees her, but haunted by painful memories, Blazing Eagle pulls away...Categorized as:
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Savage Destiny by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA New York Times Bestselling Author Why would a wealthy Louisiana planter marry an Indian woman? townsfolk asked. Or raise two copper-skinned sons as though they were white? Only trouble would come of it. . .Categorized as:
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Savage Moon by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Savage Moon, bestselling author Cassie Edwards brings readers another passionate historical romance set on the American frontier. Misshi Bradley knew two lives. As a settler girl, she'd seen her family die, one by one, on the grueling trail west. Stolen by renegade Indians, she'd grown to womanhood with an Indian family...Categorized as:
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Across the Great Sparkling Water (The Peacemaker Series) by Zoe Saadia
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo live in captivity, adopted by the enemies of her people, or to break the law and tradition by running away? That question did not occur to Onheda until after she fled Little Falls on the spur of the moment, against any better judgment. If she was to die in the woods, making her way back to her people, accused, even by them, of breaking the ancient custom, it was still the better choice... -
Savage Love by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMonster bones. They were the stuff of Indian legend, which warned that they must not be disturbed. But lovely, golden-haired Dayanara and her father were on a mission for the Smithsonian Institute to track down the mysterious bones and uncover them, despite the danger...Categorized as:
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