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Searching for his long-lost father, Bransen Garibond is tricked into journeying across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard, where he is pressed into service in a desperate war against the brutal Samhaist, Ancient Badden. On an Alpinadoran lake, just below Ancient Badden's magical ice castle, several societies, caught in the web of their own conflicts, are oblivious to Ancient Badden's devastating plans to destroy them.

The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to dominate the politics and piety of the late Roman Empire? In Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen traces the evolution of early Christianity—or rather, of early Christianities—through five centuries of Empire, mapping its pathways from the hills of Judea to the halls of Rome and Constantinople.

The best-selling First Emperor series is now available in one convenient set. For fans of Conn Iggulden, Ben Kane, and Simon Scarrow comes a spellbinding tale of adventure and unshakeable friendship from the author of the Wolf of Corwick Castle Series. If you liked Hadrack of Corwick, you will love Marcus Agrippa! An excerpt from the newly discovered journals of Marcus Agrippa: Military Commander, Politician, Architect, Right-hand man to Caesar Augustus—and impostor. All Romans lie. It is a statement of fact, not a supposition. How can I be so certain, you ask?

The Solaran Defense Forces make the difficult decision to evacuate the colony of Robichar in order to avoid a direct confrontation. But when Captain Elya Nevers gets shot down during the evacuation, his squadron and the admiral in charge have to think fast to rescue their pilot before the Kryl overrun the system.

The First Ancient Egyptian Genome: Decoding the DNA of a Lost Civilization By Sandra F. Morrison What if the ancient secrets of Egypt could be unlocked not just by artifacts and ruins, but by the very DNA of the people who built the pyramids? In this groundbreaking exploration, Sandra F. Morrison takes you on a journey into the past, revealing astonishing genetic discoveries that challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient Egypt. For the first time, scientists have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian man who lived during the time of the pyramids. This discovery has ...

The oldest stories ever written. The gods who came before all other gods. The myths that built every civilization that followed. Five thousand years ago, in the world's first cities, a civilization pressed its beliefs into clay. Those tablets contained the original versions of the stories the modern world thinks it knows — the Great Flood, the creation of humanity, the descent into the underworld, the hero who could not accept death. The Sumerians told these stories first, told them without apology, and told them with a brutal honesty about the nature of gods and humans that every ...

Captain Elya Nevers and the Furies face a different kind of danger back home as they bid farewell to fallen comrades, wade into the murky realm of Solaran politics, and hunt for knowledge about the Telos relics—while being hunted themselves. Overmind X is still at large. She’s hungry to get her talons on the next artifact of alien power. Will she find it before the Solarans get their own house in order? And what terrifying existential threat to the galaxy does she become if they’re too late?

Before history was written, the gods went to war Long before the mortal kings claimed the Emerald Isle, it was ruled by the Tuatha Dé Danann. They were a race of golden warriors, fierce queens, and masters of primal magic. But paradise is never won without a fight. In this high-stakes epic retelling, D.B. Sullivan brings the ancient Celtic myths to roaring life. Step into a brutal and beautiful age where gods bleed, kingdoms shatter, and legends are forged in the fires of battle. You will ride alongside the legendary figures of Irish myth as you have never seen them before. Lugh, the ...

Nia Imani wakes from cryo-sleep to find her crew dead, her ship crippled, and fifty minutes of empty space between her and the nearest human voice. Bolted to the hull of her salvage vessel is something that shouldn't exist: an alien megastructure three million years old, built by a civilization long since turned to dust. It's a Relay — one node in a galaxy-spanning network designed to regulate the energy output of stars. Including ours. The Relay is failing. Earth's sun is dimming. And the only mind left to explain any of it is Sil — the station's ancient artificial consciousness, who ...

David Marsh is a dead man on a dead world. Abandoned on Pluto after a mission gone wrong, he survives on recycled air and stubbornness. When a thermal anomaly beneath the ice refuses to stay quiet, he opens the hatch. What he finds is a station that has been sleeping under the surface for 472,000 years. It has architecture that responds to his heartbeat, five synthetic beings designed to prepare a biological host for godhood, and a maintenance drone that has classified him as contamination to be removed. Their commander is Jane — cold, strategic, and certain that without her, David will ...

Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species. Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomotion known as bipedalism. We strive to...

“Superb....Augustus is a first-rate popular biography by a skilled and knowing hand.” (Washington Post) Caesar Augustus created the Roman Empire and forever associated the name Caesar with power. Heir to Julius Caesar, he thrust himself into the middle of Roman politics at its most violent...

Rev. Dr. Stephen De Young, creator of the popular The Whole Counsel of God blog and podcast, traces the lineage of Orthodox Christianity back to the faith and witness of the apostles, which was rooted in a first-century Jewish worldview. The Religion of the Apostles presents the Orthodox Christian Church of today as a continuation of the religious life of the apostles, which in turn was a continuation of the life of the people of God since the beginning of creation.

In December 1872, a self-taught engraver named George Smith stood in front of the Prime Minister of Great Britain and read a story off a fragment of broken clay. A great flood. A man warned by a god. A boat, the animals, the mountaintop. The audience assumed they were hearing a Babylonian rewrite of Noah. They were hearing the source — older than Genesis, older than Homer, older than any text the Western canon had ever acknowledged. Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the book about the king, the poem, and the recovery. The historical Gilgamesh ruled the Sumerian city of Uruk ...

The fires went out. The scribes stopped writing. And then, for three hundred years, silence. We call it a dark age because we lost sight of it—not because nothing happened. Behind that silence, a shattered world was quietly rebuilding itself into something its ancestors would never have recognized. The First Dark Age follows the survivors of history's most complete collapse: the people who lived through the fall of the Bronze Age and, slowly, built the classical world out of its wreckage. What you'll discover: How families fed themselves and held communities together after the palace ...

Around 1200 BCE, the most advanced civilizations on Earth were destroyed in a single generation. The Hittite Empire — gone. Mycenaean Greece — gone. The great port of Ugarit — burned and never rebuilt. Trade networks that had connected the Mediterranean for centuries — collapsed. An entire world of palace kingdoms, international diplomacy, and bronze-age prosperity vanished in a cascade of fire, famine, and war. At the center of the destruction: a mysterious coalition of raiders the Egyptians called the Sea Peoples. Who were they? Where did they come from? And did they really bring ...

THE FIRST FLAME: Bound to the Dragon King AN ANCIENT SECRET. A DANGEROUS KING. A LOVE THAT COULD REWRITE A KINGDOM. Elira Vale has always belonged among forgotten books, ancient treaties, and dusty archives. Until one mysterious document brings her face-to-face with Kaelthar, the powerful and dangerously captivating Dragon King of Veyrath. He is feared by his court. She is far too curious for her own good. Forced to work together in the royal archives, sharp banter gives way to stolen glances, undeniable chemistry, and a slow-burning attraction neither of them can ignore. But Veyrath is a ...

The Thinkers Before Socrates: How the Pre-Socratics Searched for the First Principles of Reality is a clear and engaging guide to the earliest philosophers who transformed myth into rational inquiry and laid the foundations of Western thought. From Thales and Anaximander to Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Democritus, this book traces the bold ideas that shaped early metaphysics, cosmology, and the search for the ultimate nature of existence. Each chapter offers a detailed and accessible exploration of how these early thinkers questioned the structure of the cosmos, the nature of matter, the ...

The Age of Paradise is the first of a projected four-volume history of Christendom, a civilization with a supporting culture that gave rise to what we now call the West. At a time of renewed interest in the future of Western culture, author John Strickland—an Orthodox scholar, professor, and priest—offers a vision rooted in the deep past of the first millennium. At the heart of his story is the early Church’s “culture of paradise”, an experience of the world in which the kingdom of heaven was tangible and familiar.

Unearth the Secrets of Gods, Goddesses, and Pharaohs in Ancient Egypt Imagine a civilization where gods walked among mortals, powerful pharaohs ruled as deities, and death was merely a gateway to an eternal journey. This comprehensive book pulls back the veil on the myths, rituals, and rulers that shaped one of history's most fascinating empires. Two manuscripts in one book: Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt: An Enthralling Overview of the Most Important Deities in Egyptian Mythology Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt: An Enthralling Overview of Egyptian Rulers Part 1: Gods and Goddesses of ...