Historical Fiction North Africa

What is Chief Commissioner Muhammad Amalfi to do when he discovers the bodies of slain janissaries in an abandoned warehouse? When Muhammad, a maidservant, and the widow of a murdered Turk are abducted by brigands, he is faced with one of the toughest challenges of his life. And when the Dey strips him of his office and demands his execution, he knows his life might soon be over. Will he and the women he has been abducted with be able to escape the mountain stronghold where they are held before they are sold into slavery at a distant southern oasis? And what then, if they do escape? Since ...

Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled, and the women hold property—a world in which anything can happen. It is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England. In 1917, Alice returns home to a world completely alien to the one she left in the Sahara.

A decorated officer betrayed. A proud soldier enslaved. A legend forged in the blood-soaked sands of the arena. Decurion Valerius is a loyal soldier of Rome, his reputation built on discipline and battlefield victories. But when a treacherous act of political ambition, orchestrated by the man he trusts most, Legate Tiberius, strips him of his rank and honor, Valerius is sold into the brutal world of a Carthaginian gladiator school. Chained and condemned, he is no longer a commander of men but a slave forced to fight for the roaring mob. To survive, he must abandon the rigid tactics of a ...

In the year 1282, after their daring heroics liberating Sicily, Esmeray and Bastone find a haven on the island of Favignana. But the War of the Sicilian Vespers reignites, dragging them into their prior roles as spies. Finding strength in each other, they once more join the patriots to rid the Angevins from Sicily. They return to their sanctuary in Favignana, sharing the welcome challenge of raising their adventurous daughter, Aspasia. Esmeray and Bastone, however, long for the open sea, and she accepts command of a trading vessel, but questions if the sea is the best home for their ...

Estacionado en un portaaviones en el corazón del Mediterráneo, el piloto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial John Archer sirve a su país enfrentándose cara a cara con la Luftwaffe en la lucha por el frente norteafricano. Y después de que se le encomiende su próxima misión desafiante a la muerte, infiltrarse en las líneas enemigas en Libia y robar información ultrasecreta, aprovecha la oportunidad.

From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement... Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as a local high school football hero, but returns...

Khulani, a young warrior of the Imaziɣen tribe, knew he had a special gift from a very early age. He lived a simple life with his tribespeople following the herds of Hartebeest across the endless grasslands that they called their home. Already a successful hunt master with the potential to be a great tribal leader, life was good for Khulani, and then his world was inexplicably turned upside down.

Featuring 18 trailblazing Black women in American history, Little Leaders educates and inspires as it relates true stories of breaking boundaries and achieving beyond expectations. Among these biographies, listeners will find heroes, role models, and everyday women who did extraordinary things - bold women whose actions and beliefs contributed to making the world better for generations of girls and women to come.

The die has been cast and Flavius, driven by the ghost of his publicly executed father due to the failed Revolt of St. Titus, has made a fateful decision. He intends to return to Crete, along with Ramazan, the famed pirate of the Black Ram, and confront his nemesis, the beautiful and brilliant Constanze Kallergis who is now the Duchess of Crete since the death of her husband. She has one goal as well, that of bringing Flavius under her charge, and will move heaven and earth to achieve it. The Eastern Mediterranean Sea in the 14th century was a cauldron of activity. The mighty Byzantine ...