Books like 'Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty'
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Daughter of Rome by Tessa Afshar
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA woman with a devastating secret. A man bent on proving his worth. A chance encounter that catapults them into the heart of history.When the daughter of a prominent Roman general meets a disinherited Jewish immigrant, neither one can dream of God's plan to transform them into the most influential couple of the early church. Nor can they anticipate the mountains that will threaten to bury them... -
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Blood of a Gladiator by Ashley Gardner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLeonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who grants him freedom, a place to live, and a servant—Cassia, a scribe—to look after him.But the benefactor is only so generous—Leonidas must pay his own way and Cassia’s, which means hiring himself out. The sharp-witted Cassia quickly lands him a post as a bodyguard, escorting a retired senator to Ostia...Categorized as:
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Raphael, Painter in Rome by Stephanie Storey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAnother Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble, Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael! Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance... -
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Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFlavia Albia is a private investigator, always drawn to an intriguing puzzle - even if it is put to her by her new husband's hostile ex-wife. On the Quirinal Hill, Clodia Volumnia, a very young girl with stars in her eyes, has died, amid suggestions that she was poisoned by a love-potion...Categorized as:
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![The Gladiator by Carla Capshaw]()
The Gladiator by Carla Capshaw
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe won his fame--and his freedom--in the gory pits of Rome's Colosseum. Yet the greatest challenge for once-legendary gladiator Caros Viriathos comes to him through a slave. His slave, the beautiful and mysterious Pelonia Valeria. Her secret brings danger to his household but offers Caros a love like he's never known....Should anyone learn she is a Christian, Pelonia will be executed... -
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Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, Crystal King’s seminal debut features the man who inspired the world’s oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction.On a blistering day in the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar’s reign, a young chef, Thrasius, is acquired for the exorbitant price of twenty thousand denarii...Categorized as:
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Tribune of Rome by Robert Fabbri
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his brother into the army. But he discovers a city in turmoil and an Empire on the brink. The aging emperor Tiberius is in seclusion on Capri, leaving Rome in the iron grip of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard...Categorized as:
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![The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi by Alyssa Palombo]()
The Violinist of Venice: A Story of Vivaldi by Alyssa Palombo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA sweeping historical novel of composer and priest Antonio Vivaldi, a secret wealthy mistress, and their passion for music and each other Like most 18th century Venetians, Adriana d'Amato adores music-except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin... -
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حلم ماكينة الخِيَاطة by Bianca Pitzorno
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"بيانكا بيتشورنو واحدة من أعظم الكتاب الإيطاليين، ورواية حلم ماكينة الخياطة رواية استثنائية، فلا يُمكن سوى ليد حكيمة خبيرة أن تُقارن بين الخياطة والكتابة دون ابتذال أي منهما."- ناديا تيرانوفا، في الـLa Repubblica"تمثل بيانكا بيتسورنو أيقونة ورمزاً، وعلامة تجارية مُميزة، وهي اليقين التام بأنك ستحظى بقراءة جذابة ومُمتعة. ورواية حلم ماكينة الخياطة تأكيد جديد على كل هذا... -
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The Books of Rachel by Joel Gross
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Books of Rachel is a fictional microcosm of 500 years of Jewish history. Since the 15th century, in the Cuheno family, the first daughter born to the family is given the name Rachel and a heritage of faith and courage as precious as the family diamond. A saga sweeping from the Spanish Inquisition to the birth of a Jewish homeland."Highly recommended... -
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Caligula by Simon Turney
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaligula: loving brother, reluctant ruler and tortured soul.The five children of Germanicus are cursed from birth. Father: believed poisoned by the Emperor Tiberius over the imperial succession. Mother and two brothers arrested and starved to death by Tiberius. One sister married off to an abusive husband... -
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Attila: The Judgement by William Napier
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAD 449: the future of the world hangs in the balance. The once mighty Roman Empire lies open and vulnerable to attack from a huge Hunnish army that has gathered on the banks of the Danube and is poised and ready to strike - but only one man has seen the danger.Master-General Aetius knows Attila still thirsts for blood and destruction, but he is helpless to stop the the pending onslaught...Categorized as:
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Augustus by Allan Massie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReconstruction of the lost memoirs of Emperor Augustus; an account from the killing of Caesar to his own death.After Caesar and Antony, the third volume of this series of historical novels about the Roman Empire. The remarkable recovery of the drama and glory of a unique historic character... -
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Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure...Categorized as:
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![Attila: The Gathering of the Storm by William Napier]()
Attila: The Gathering of the Storm by William Napier
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe gripping and bloody story of one of history's most infamous and enigmatic villains - part II in the ATTILA trilogyThe 5th century has dawned in blood. The young boy exiled thirty years ago has grown into a man. One stormy autumn day, a mysterious rider is seen out on the plains. Attila has returned, his sentence served, to claim his kingdom...Categorized as:
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Spartacus by James Leslie Mitchell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpartacus focuses and brings to public attention much of James Leslie Mitchell, 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon's', earliest and most fiercely held beliefs in the nature of society, the freedom of the individual, and the inevitable collapse of 'civilisation...Categorized as:
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Lord of the Night by Susan Wiggs
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnder cover of night... Sandro Cavalli, Lord of the Night, is legendary for bringing criminals to justice. But in the city's shadowy alleyways, a new, deadly plot is afoot—a sinister threat that even Sandro needs help to uncover. He enlists the aid of an alluring, sensuous beauty, Laura Bandello. But Laura's innocent loveliness may hide a dark secret, and Sandro vows to keep his distance... -
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The Ground Is Burning by Samuel Black, Sam Taylor
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeduction, betrayal and murder: the true art of the renaissance.Cesare Borgia, Niccolo Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci - three of the most famous, or notorious, names in European history. In the autumn of 1502, their lives intersect in a castle in Italy's Romagna... -
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The Last Ember by Daniel Levin
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJonathan Marcus, a young American lawyer and former doctoral student in classics, is summoned to Rome for a case and stumbles across a message hidden inside an ancient stone fragment... -
![Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia by M.G. Scarsbrook]()
Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia by M.G. Scarsbrook
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1497, Renaissance in their ruthless quest for power, the powerful Borgia family are terrorizing the city, poisoning their enemies. But when Lucrezia Borgia learns that her new husband is next to die, she struggles to help him escape from Rome before the assassins strike. However, as tragedy looms ever closer, she finds herself confronting enemies far more sinister than she ever imagined.. -
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The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF 2020"Only Katy Simpson Smith could have written a novel of such elegance, emotional power, and grace. The Everlasting, a quadruple love story spanning two millennia, is no less than the story of love itself—its frustrations and thrills, its blunders and transcendent glories. Meraviglioso...Categorized as:
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![The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice by Michelle Lovric, Michelle Lovric]()
The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice by Michelle Lovric, Michelle Lovric
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVenice, 1468. The beautiful yet heartless Sosia Simeon is making her mark on the city, driven by a dark compulsion to steal pleasure with men from all walks of life. Across the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany, bringing with him a cultural Gutenberg's movable type...Categorized as:
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![The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo]()
The Pope's Daughter by Dario Fo
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history The daughter of a notorious pope she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married-one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezias own brother Cesar Borgia She is cast in the role of murderess temptress incestuous lover loose woman femme fatale par...Categorized as:
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![Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones]()
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation...Categorized as:
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![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
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Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVolume 3 of the monumental Story of Civilization, CAESAR AND CHRIST depicts the rise of Rome from a crossroads town to empire. The world's first republic, Rome spread its civilization over the Mediterranean and western European world. Its long, slow crumbling and final collapse plunged Europe into darkness and chaos.The Pax Romana broke some heads...Categorized as:
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Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and Israeli-Palestinian conflict—from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” ( New Statesman )In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of... -
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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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![Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill]()
Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November .Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history intimately and vividly to life as he reflects on his seventeen years protecting the most powerful office in the nation. Hill walked alongside Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F...
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