Author: Carla Capshaw ISBN: 9780373828401 Pages: 288 Description: Quintus Ambustus is a slave—Adiona Leonia is a wealthy socialite. He fights for his life in the gladiator’s ring—she plays cutthroat politics in Rome’s high society. He’s sacrificed everything for his Christian faith—she believes in nothing and no one. But when Adiona’s life is threatened, Quintus is…
Author: William Pène du Bois ISBN: 9780140320978 Pages: 180 Description: One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.…
Author: Natalie Barelli ISBN: Pages: 300 Description: I’m sorry. I know this book got a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews, but I just didn’t like it. The main character has to be the MOST gullible person alive. For all of her self-proclaimed genius, she is ridiculously stupid. The majority of this book would…
Author: Annabel Lyon ISBN: 9780307356208 Pages: 304 Description: On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one…
Author: David Leavitt ISBN: 9781582345734 Pages: 352 Description: David Leavitt’s extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must…
Author: Ken Follett ISBN: 9780525946892 Pages: 420 Description: Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II…It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish…
Author: Arwen Elys Dayton ISBN: 9780385744072 Pages: 448 Description: The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor. As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and…
Author: Lindsay Anne Kendal ISBN: 9781937085735 Pages: 308 Description: Keira has been through Hell, literally….. But now she’s back, and stronger than ever! In this second gripping instalment of the Bloodlines trilogy Keira and her friends – Lily, Lucian, Tyler, Jake and Danny – continue to try and understand their elemental powers, and protect themselves…
Nos despedimos, diciendo que nosotros si creemos en ellos. Nos cuentan la historia de Uhtred, conde de Bebbanburg. Pero cuando bajas a la Tierra, ni mono ni platillos ni perro que te ladre. Si al estudiante se le asigna gratuidad, no tendrá necesidad de renovar su Fondo Solidario de Crédito Universitario (FSCU) por los semestres que…
Author: G.K. Chesterton ISBN: 9781576468555 Pages: 96 Description: The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G.K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a “queer trade”). – Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free…