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After the deadly trick of the Wooden Horse and the destruction of Troy, the hero Aeneas sets sail with a small number of refugees to find a new homeland. Among those travelling with him are Nisus and Euryalus. Only boys when they flee their burning city, they are teens by the time they reach their destination. During their seven-year quest the two have trained to be warriors, and formed an unbreakable bond. Now, united by a desire to prove their bravery, the two friends decide to go on a daring night raid through a sleeping camp of hostile warriors.

FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH ROMAN TRILOGY is the AUTHOR'S MOST DOWNLOADED BOOK (Spanish) ON THE WEB. Now exclusively for Amazon, the latest edition is reviewed and illustrated by the same author: Rome, 117 A.D., the year of the death of Caesar Marcus Trajanus in the greatest splendor of the Roman Empire. Time and background in which the first two short novels of the gripping Roman trilogy of the author Abel Carvajal take place: 1- THE MAGICIAN OF MESOPOTAMIA. Discovering the last mystery: The most powerful man of the Roman Empire to a singular nobleman entrusts him with a challenging and ...

An ostracized indigenous teen. A shocking secret revealed. A mother’s startling prediction. A teen boy longs to be accepted into his mother’s indigenous people. Superstition has always prevented the two of them from belonging. Now, as shocking truths are revealed, he questions his true birthright. Will the boy find the community acceptance he desperately seeks or will his mother’s revelations put his life in danger?

Before walls and laws, every choice is measured in hunger, fear, and winter breath. When a brutal winter kills his father, sixteen-year-old Koda watches Uluk take up the leader’s staff and hold their small tribe together with one rule: take only what you need, or the land will take everything. But winter is only the first enemy. As bears, bandits, and a bronze-armed warlord close in, Koda and his friends—sharp-eyed hunter Ayala and battle-scarred warrior Raka—fight to turn a wandering tribe into a walled village that can survive the next attack. Alongside Kaya, a calm and cunning ...

Seventeen-year-old Dan and his partner Sam know that their only chance to stop Victor Stahl’s quest for global domination is another jump into the past. This time, they find themselves in ancient Greece on the eve of one of history’s most famous conflicts: the Battle of Thermopylae. Heavily outnumbered by the massive Persian army, the Spartan warriors and their allies are girding themselves for war when a horrible accident threatens the fabric of history itself. In a race against time, Dan and Sam must battle to prevent a catastrophe far worse than Victor’s sinister plans.

Darya does not remember how she came to be a slave or who she was before she was bought by an army captain for his motherless daughter in the ancient Persian city of Susa. Protected and nurtured by the housekeeper and her daughter, Darya has as good a life as a slave can have, even acquiring the rare skill of reading and writing, which she learns alongside her young mistress.

Princess Camilla grows up in the wood with her father, learning to hunt like Diana and fight like an Amazon. One day refugees from the Trojan War arrive in her land. Camilla trains a band of four teenage girls like herself to fight off the invaders. But will male warriors accept their help? And can a few girls really make a difference?

Almost 20,000 years ago, on what is now the southern coast of Norway, a great storm enveloped the area, causing another ice age to begin. While the inhabitants of the area were quite concerned, the atmospheric events led the people of the time to go underground. In their attempt to flee the raging storm, a great civilization was born – Izantica. The Kingdom of Izantica, like Atlantis, was a technological wonder, with devices and inventions that have never been conceived of before. The main person behind these technological advances was “Lars the Great.” Previously known as “Lars the...

In a land steeped in myth and superstition, a raid on a small village leaves a young boy, Khu, its only survivor. Fate paves a strange and mystical path through dark and uncertain times, when the split powers of Upper and Lower Egypt compete for sovereignty over a realm plagued by instability, rebellion, and fear. Two kings and their kingdoms battle over one dream - a dream threatened by shifting allegiances and foreign invasion.

Rafel Collington prosigue su lucha por salvar a Senmontu, la joven egipcia que vivió hace 2000 años y le tiene obsesionado. Está decidido a entrar en la tumba que oculta el último de los secretos: la identidad de la bestia que habita en la sombra, la enemiga de Senmontu y de su familia. Acción, magia y aventuras en una novela trepidante. SINOPSIS Estamos en el Egipto del siglo II a. C, durante el reinado del faraón griego Ptolomeo IV. En la aldea de Harmonía todo parece perfecto, idílico, pero las cosas están a punto de cambiar, pues un Udji, un ser sin alma, un ser ni vivo ni ...

-NUEVA EDICIÓN EXCLUSIVA DE AMAZON. Ilustrada por el autor- "Ha pasado cierto tiempo desde que yo, Marco, otrora ilustre ciudadano y ahora anónimo peregrino, logré escapar de mis también ilustres pero enconados perseguidores en una oscura noche de la convulsionada Roma tras la muerte del gran Dácico, el emperador Marco Trajano, mi entrañable tío. Salvándome de una muerte segura. Muchos días atrás, abatido pero obligado por las circunstancias, anticipándome al evidente final del César y al final de mi tranquilo vivir en la hermosa villa frente al mar en el puerto de Ostia que ...

Age Level: 12 and up Fifteen-year-old Anna Moore is whisked back in time through the forces of a mysterious mirror to the first century AD during the Roman Empire. The year is AD 79 and Anna finds herself in Pompeii just days before the deadly volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. As forces conspire against her, she struggles to escape the catastrophe that threatens the lives of thousands. Set within historical events that rocked the ancient world, The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising, is a dramatic reenactment of the lavish seaside town of Pompeii in all its glory, and the terrible fate that ...

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the 18-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night, only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a terrible surprise when 16-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi's wit and will get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch...she may be falling in love with a murderer.

On the island of Zakynthos, nothing is more powerful than Desire—love itself, bottled and sold to the highest bidder by Leandros, a power-hungry descendent of the god Eros. Eirene and her beloved twin sister, Phoebe, have always managed to escape Desire’s thrall. Until Leandros’ wife dies mysteriously and he sets his sights on Phoebe. Determined to keep her sister safe, Eirene strikes a bargain with Leandros: if she can complete the four elaborate tasks he sets her, he will find another bride.

Homers "Odyssee" - Ein Weltgedicht: Im späten 8. Jahrhundert niedergeschrieben, gehört es zu den ältesten und einflussreichsten Werken der abendländischen Literatur. Das Versepos erzählt die Irrfahrten des griechischen Helden Odysseus, der um Troja gekämpft hat und durch den Fluch des Poseidon an der Rückkehr nach Ithaka gehindert wird. Es ist die Geschichte einer Heimkehr, die Geschichte eines Mannes, der trotz ständiger Bedrohungen und Verlockungen sein Ziel nicht aus den Augen verliert. Und es ist die Geschichte einer Frau, die zwanzig Jahre auf ihren Mann warten muss.

Swords. Love. Magic. Epic Battles. Reincarnation. The recording cut off with the image of a blast of white-blue flame. I sat up from my stasis chamber, looked at the inscription, and read, "Velnin." So, I was the last—number 9. My other remaining brothers had either died too fast to leave dying words at all, or been killed in stasis before this last one had died. Velnin awakes in a stasis chamber deep in a hidden cave base, with only the memories of his first brother Velwin, and the dying words of three more. On his ninth and final life, Velnin must unravel the mysteries of what has ...

Roman influence and power in Britannia is diminishing but with it the northern tribes are becoming emboldened. Noblemen who once gave their allegiance to Rome are flexing their muscles and seeking a return to the old ways. But, while they bicker and negotiate over who should be king, another force is in the ascendency. The Arch Druid, known simply as Ash, has his own grand plans, which involve the manipulation of both the tribes and Romans.

Isaac Tenoch es un niño procedente de una familia campesina del norte de México, en el estado de Durango, quien vivirá la más deslumbrante aventura para salvar a su amor platónico, la bella y privilegiada María de la Candelaria. Motivado por los fascinantes relatos que le contaba su abuela y amiga incondicional, Doña Francisca, nuestro valiente protagonista se convertirá en el primer guerrero al frente de dos grandes imperios... Pero nada será tan efímero y sencillo en esta historia.

When your school erases history, sometimes you have to go back and witness it yourself. Sixteen-year-old Cuchu Ramirez is tired of hearing that "real civilization" started in Europe. Fifteen-year-old Matias Kim thinks history is just dead people's problems. But when their Seattle high school bans archaeology textbooks for promoting "anti-American narratives," these unlikely allies discover something that changes everything: the power to travel back in time.

Nineteen-year-old Torien Risto has seen dissidents dealt with before. He knows the young local girl who just knifed him will hang for assaulting an Imperial officer, unless he can stop it. Someone inside the provincial government is kidnapping Imperial citizens and selling them across the desert to the salt mines, silencing anyone who tries to intervene. The girl's brother is one of those who has been taken.