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Author
Series
Golden age volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light. But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta--Athens's legendary rival--looms large on the horizon. When a sudden catastrophe brings Sparta to its knees, Pericles sees a golden opportunity to forever shift the balance of power in his city's favor. For sometimes, the only way to win lasting peace is to wage war. Sparta may be weak, but their power...
3) Cross down
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 31
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
1 -- fire -- Through the long, lonely years of my childhood, when my father's palace seemed to tighten its grip around me until I couldn't breathe, I would go to my nurse and ask for a story. And though she knew many wondrous and edifying tales, the one I made her tell me over and over was the story of my birth. I think I liked it so much because it made me feel special, and in those days there was little else in my life that did. Perhaps Dhai Ma...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Readers can journey back in time to ancient Greece in this visually stunning introduction to one of the world's founding nations that features fascinating information, statistics and facts showing how the ancient Greeks transformed our world.
"Travel back in time to a civilization rich in epic heroes, powerful gods, myths, and legends. Discover how ancient Greek art, ideas, science, and medicine have influenced the world today, and how a sports...
Author
Publisher
Frommer Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. can be an overwhelming destination for visitors. With so many museums, so many historic sights, so many working government buildings to see--not to mention its scintillating foodie and nightlife scenes--just coming up with a plan can be stressful. That's where Frommer's comes in. We've hired a local journalist to supply the advice and details you need to create the right vacation for you. These include strategies for seeing the iconic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Even today we can trace the roots of our civilization to Ancient Greece. Its thousands of years later and kids still learn about it in school-and discoveries about it are still being made! But even as democracy and philosophy grew and then flourished, kids still grew up, learned, ate, and played. In this book, readers walk through the streets of Athens and Sparta, learning about their unique culture through children who lived there. The text covers...
Author
Series
First family volume 5
Publisher
HTJB, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"His mother has been arrested, his government is under new threat, the relentless media is driving him mad, and denial becomes the word of the day for President Nick Cappuano. Meanwhile, his wife, DC Metro Police Lt. Sam Holland Cappuano has caught a big new case with suspects everywhere she looks. Watch for her partner, Detective Freddie Cruz, to take center stage in this investigation when a variety of personal situations keep Sam off the job. With...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From author Alicia Bessette comes an all-new mystery series featuring Callie Padget, a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks who is pulled into a deadly web of secrets when a mysterious fall at a lighthouse echoes a tragedy from her past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The many achievements of Ancient Egypt are well known and often taught in social studies curricula. But among all the pharaohs and pyramid-building, there were still kids learning and growing in Egypt! In this volume, readers learn about what Egyptian children wore and ate, what games they played, and what their schooling was like. Age-appropriate content is accessible, interesting, and relatable for lower elementary readers. Historical images and...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Adam Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past"--
Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic men and women decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Pride and Prejudice meets Black-ish in this exciting new rom-com by debut author Nikki Payne. Liza B-The Only DJ That Gives a Jam-wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at their corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly-but her impossible-to-ignore...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In a world of Goddess worship, sacred snakes and sacrifice, human jealousy, resentment and betrayal still run wild . . .
Ancient Crete, 1450 BC. When her sister Arge drops to the floor in convulsions and then dies at her wedding, fifteen-year-old Martis, a young poet and bull leaper in training, is certain she was murdered.The prime suspect is the groom, Saurus, a barbarian from the Greek mainland, but when Arge's Shade visits Martis, swearing...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 32
Language
English
Description
"An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. "Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto." Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate...
15) Erasure: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Starr Lewis returns home for the holidays, jobless and single, to attend her sister's wedding to Starr's ex-boyfriend. But when her brother's best friend offers to go with her to the wedding activities and she gives his struggling Christmas shop a makeover, she wonders if the holidays could bring her a love to keep all year long"--
17) Company: stories
Author
Publisher
Graywolf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about the Collins family and their acquaintances as they meet, bicker, compete, celebrate, worry, keep and reveal secrets, build lives and careers, and endure. Moving from Atlantic City to New York to DC, from the 1960s to the 2000s, from law students to drag performers to violinists to matriarchs, Company tells a multifaceted, multigenerational saga in thirteen stories.
18) King Dom
Author
Publisher
The Cartel Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On the dark streets of Washington DC at fifteen years old, Felicio King's journey begins. Abandoned by her own father, she was tossed out into the wild, where survival became her only priority. Burdened by the scars of her past, years later she found refuge in the companionship of her chosen family--a close group of street-savvy allies. But when an unpredicted storm named April rolls into Felicio's life, her fragile foundation is shattered. April,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The runaway international bestseller - part sweeping historical epic, part legal thriller - following the trial that shaped the life of the young Julius Caesar and gave root to an immortal legacy. Every legend has a beginning. Rome, 77 B.C. Senator Dolabella, known for using violence against anyone who opposes him, is going on trial for corruption and has already hired the best lawyers and even bought the jury. No man dares accept the role of prosecutor...
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