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47 Ronin - John Allyn
In 1701, young Lord Asano is goaded into attacking a corrupt official at the Japanese Court. Although the wound Asano inflicts is minimal, the Empe...
View full detailsA Breath Of Snow And Ashes | Diana Gabaldon
Summary Specs Notes The sixth novel in the bestse...
View full detailsA Splendid Sin: MIchelangelo: A Renaissance Affair - Alana Bolton Cooke
Behind the masterpiece was a love that defined Renaissance art. Michaelangelo di Lodovico Buonarrotti has risen into Rome's artistic elite and the ...
View full detailsAchilles the Hero | Eirene Allen, PhD
Summary Specs The story of Achilles at the fall of T...
View full detailsAlexander the Great | Alexandra F. Morris
Alexander the Great was undefeated in battle and is considered to be one of history's most successful military commanders. In 336 BCE Alexander di...
View full detailsCyrus the Great | Ian Macgregor Morris
Cyrus the Great created the first Persian Empire and remains one of the world's most impressive rulers and military campaigners. Cyrus the Great c...
View full detailsHannibal of Carthage | Lindsay Powell
Summary Specs The life of Hannibal, one of the great...
View full detailsJerningham - Cristina Sanders
Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this coun...
View full detailsMrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant
Summary Specs It's 1866 and the three-masted sailing ship General Grant is on the southern route from Melbourne to London, with gold ...
View full detailsSecrets of the Land | Kate Mahony
Summary Specs Imogen Maguire is bewildered when in 2018 she is accosted in a Melbourne Street by a mysterious stranger who says her g...
View full detailsThe Three Kingdoms Vol. 1: The Sacred Oath - Luo Guanzhung
The Three Kingdoms is the epic saga of loyalty and treachery, brotherhood and rivalry-and the deeds of legendary heroes and villains during one of ...
View full detailsThe Three Kingdoms Vol. 2: The Sleeping Dragon - Luo Guanzhung
The Three Kingdoms is the epic saga of loyalty and treachery, brotherhood and rivalry-and the deeds of legendary heroes and villains during one of ...
View full detailsThe Three Kingdoms Vol. 3: Welcome The Tiger - Luo Guanzhung
The Three Kingdoms is the epic saga of loyalty and treachery, brotherhood and rivalry-and the deeds of legendary heroes and villains during one of ...
View full detailsWe Came from Hamburg | Vivienne Ullrich
It is Hamburg, 1920. Abruptly Erna leaves her marriage and her three daughters, and disappears from the family. No one speaks of her again. One by...
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