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WolfeAx: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMagnus de Wolfe, who takes after his Viking forefathers, has his story told in a unique and powerful way. The story of a love nearly lost… but for an angel. Paternal grandson of England's greatest knight, son of the man known as Nighthawk, and grandson on his mother's side of a Norse king, Magnus de Wolfe has the blood of elite and royal warriors flowing through his veins... -
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BattleWolfe: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA super-star knight with a de Wolfe pedigree… and the Scottish rose who saves his life.In the turbulent lands of the English/Scottish border, their love wasn't meant to last.... but no one loves as strongly as a de Wolfe... -
![The Dark Conqueror by Kathryn Le Veque]()
The Dark Conqueror by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTitan Medieval Houses go head to head in this sweeping and poignant Medieval Romance!When the House of de Lohr (Rise of the Defender) and the House of de Velt (The Dark Lord) come together through their children, anything can happen—and anything does!Cassian de Velt came to foster with Christopher de Lohr at a young age... -
![Highlander The Cursed Lord by Donna Fletcher]()
Highlander The Cursed Lord by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe time has come for a curse that has plagued three clans for 20 years to meet its fate at the hands of three women who hold the key to its destruction... -
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![The Gift of Black Isle by Keira Montclair]()
The Gift of Black Isle by Keira Montclair
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTruth can be the most difficult gift to acceptRiley Cameron has watched her beloved cousins and finally her sister all find their Happily Ever Afters with the men of Clan Matheson. Now all the Matheson brothers are taken, and Riley stands alone. She's beginning to think she might never find someone to love... -
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Abducted Brides by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a knight’s lady is taken, the beast in him comes alive. Welcome to the ABDUCTED BRIDES collection, FIVE FULL-LENGTH Medieval Romance novels with over a thousand pages of Medieval greatness, all by USA Today Bestselling author Kathryn Le Veque. In days of old, men were ruthless and women were fiery... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![Marching With Caesar: Conquest of Gaul by R.W. Peake]()
Marching With Caesar: Conquest of Gaul by R.W. Peake
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTitus Pullus joined the 10th Legion in 61 BC as a young boy looking for adventure with his childhood friend. Forty-two years later, Titus looks back on the beginning of his career when he was a Legionary, Marching With Caesar, as the greatest Roman of all conducted one of the most notable military campaigns of all time, the Conquest of Gaul...Categorized as:
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![Romanticism: An Anthology by Duncan Wu]()
Romanticism: An Anthology by Duncan Wu
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsROMANTICISM Praise for the third “An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come... -
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Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived...Categorized as:
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![The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen Brusatte]()
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen Brusatte
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA sweeping and revelatory new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us Though humans claim to rule the Earth, we are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals...Categorized as:
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![Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon]()
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives todayHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get... -
![The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066 by Marc Morris]()
The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066 by Marc Morris
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris.Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos...Categorized as:
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![Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by David Burnie]()
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by David Burnie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith an extensive catalog at its heart, Prehistoric Life profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail. The story starts in earnest 3.8 billion years ago, with the earliest-known form of life on Earth, a bacteria that still exists today, and journeys through action-packed millennia, charting the appearance of new life forms as well as devastating extinction events...Categorized as:
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![The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati by Michel Danino]()
The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati by Michel Danino
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Lost River explores the geography, history, and mythology, of the Sarasvati river, drawing from various sources like folklore, the Vedas, archaeology, local practices, history, geology, and meteorology. The book explains that the river, its very existence, and its course have been discussed and speculated over for years... -
![Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber]()
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women...Categorized as:
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![The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World by Robert Garland]()
The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World by Robert Garland
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLook beyond the abstract dates and figures, kings and queens, and battles and wars that make up so many historical accounts. Over the course of 48 richly detailed lectures, Professor Garland covers the breadth and depth of human history from the perspective of the so-called ordinary people, from its earliest beginnings through the Middle Ages...Categorized as:
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![A History of the World in 100 Objects 6 Copy Counter Display by Neil MacGregor]()
A History of the World in 100 Objects 6 Copy Counter Display by Neil MacGregor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe blockbuster "New York Times" bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series Neil MacGregor has blazed an unusual path to international renown. As director of the British Museum, he organized an exhibit that aimed to tell the history of humanity through the stories of one hundred objects made, used, venerated, or discarded by man...Categorized as:
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![Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World by Bob Brier]()
Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World by Bob Brier
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA major new look at the treasures and mysteries of Tutankhamun's tomb on the centenary of its discovery.It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display. But there is far more to Tutankhamun's story...Categorized as:
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![Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne]()
Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his “big book on species” still lay on his study desk in the form of a huge pile of manuscript... -
![Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline by Paul M.M. Cooper]()
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline by Paul M.M. Cooper
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLandmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations.Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse... -
![The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow]()
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation...Categorized as:
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![500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.]()
500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA book that grew from an eight-hour TV series, this is the epic and unforgettable story of the history, lore, legends, and legacy of North American Indians... -
![The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham]()
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world...Categorized as:
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![Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks]()
Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree... -
![The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte]()
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThey’re the celebrities of the primeval world: Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus and Brachiosaurus. All these A-listers and a vast supporting cast are brought thrillingly to life in The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, hailed by Scientific American as "the ultimate dinosaur biography...Categorized as:
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![Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch]()
Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor this volume Ian Scott-Kilvert has selected nine of Plutarch's Roman Lives: figures whose careers range from the earliest years of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire under Octavius Caesar. The Shakespearean heroes Coriolanus, Brutus and Mark Antony have been included to illustrate Plutarch's fondness for a semi-fictional rather than a factual treatment of history...Categorized as:
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![The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper]()
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHow climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome's power--a story of nature's triumph over human ambition... -
![The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation by Justo L. González]()
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation by Justo L. González
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Story of Christianity, Volume 1, is an informative, interesting, and consistently readable narrative history. It brings alive the people, dramatic events, and ideas that shaped the first fifteen centuries of Europe, such as the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the New World...Categorized as:
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![The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski]()
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLauded by critics & devoured by readers, this companion to the BBC series traces the development of science as an expression of the special gifts that characterize humans & make us preeminent animals. Bronowski's exciting, illustrated investigation offers a perspective not just on science, but on civilization itself...Categorized as:
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