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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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A searing sci-fi thriller about a woman reckoning with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in the face of a coming apocalypse—from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds. "A bold, beautiful, gut-punch of a story, at turns ferocious and poetic—and sometimes both at once."—Veronica Roth, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen Ones [Those Beyond the Wall] reads like Mad Max: Fury Road...
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Disney
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the young and spoiled Emperor Kuzco is transformed into a llama by his sinister advisor Yzma, it takes a thoughtful peasant to restore the kingdom and show Kuzco just how much fun it is to be true to yourself. Then laugh along with Yzma’s hilarious henchman Kronk as he cooks up big trouble in the hilarious sequel. These two comedy classics are better than ever on Disney Blu-ray!
When the young and spoiled Emperor Kuzco is transformed...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most famous classicist” (Guardian). In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard turns to the emperors who ruled...
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Series
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Given a second chance at life, cruel tyrant Mo Ran, once the first emperor of the mortal realm, awakening in his own body at age sixteen, is now a novice disciple at the cultivation sect known as Shisheng Peak, where he shamelessly pursues his own goals,while desiring his cold teacher who challenges his previously held beliefs.
Given a second chance at life, cruel tyrant Mo Ran, once the first emperor of the mortal realm, awakening in his own body...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. In How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, cognitive psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius together...
Author
Series
Bargainer volume 3
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited third book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to. In the beginning, there was darkness. Before he met his soulmate, Callypso Lillis, and before he became the Bargainer or the King of Night, he was just Desmond Flynn, the bastard son of a scribe. A boy born to a weak mother in a lowly city, cursed with...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the sixth century CE the East Roman (or "Byzantine") Emperor Justinian presided over nearly four decades of remarkable change. From his capital of Constantinople, he directed armies to re-conquer territories that had been lost to Roman control in thefifth century, while also taking on the neighboring superpower of Persia. Most histories of Justinian's reign focus on these military exploits, and on the unprecedented persecution of religious and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A unique and entertaining history of the Roman Empire's first dynasty 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the birthplace of Western bureaucracy, a warren of banqueting and bedrooms, a treacherous household where it takes special talents to survive. This...
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