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  1. In a Milk and Honeyed Land - Sample

    This is a novel about everyday life about 3,000 years ago in the hill country of Canaan – now called Israel and Palestine – close to the end of the time of Egyptian rule of that province. It explores how the vast changes in lifestyle, politics, religion and music that occurred in that area between what archaeologists call the Bronze Age and Iron Age might have been mirrored by individual people’s words and actions.

  2. The Flame Before Us - Sample

    The Flame Before Us starts in the north, along the coast at the city of Ikaret, and follows several inter-related groups of people as they cope with the sudden destruction of the city. Groups of invaders are sweeping southwards. Their path of destruction began in the Hittite lands, in battles described in the epic works of the Iliad and Aeneid. Troy was simply the first stage of their path of conquest; The Flame Before Us picks up the story some months later.

  3. Scenes from a Life - Sample

    Scenes From a Life opens in Egypt, and we are introduced to Makty-Rasut, a scribe working on the tomb decorations of a senior priest. He lives just outside the town of Waset, which today we call Luxor.

  4. The Great Story of Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim) In Islam

    Prophet Ibrahim known as Abraham in the Hebrew bible, is recognized in Islam as a prophet and apostle of Allah SWT (God) and patriarch of many peoples. In Muslim belief, Abraham fulfilled all the commandments and trials which God tried him with over his lifetime. As a result of his unwavering faith in God, Abraham was promised by God to be a leader to all the nations of the world.

  5. Interviews of Kephrath - Labayu

    This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Labayu, a Kinahny man who grew up in Kephrath, but until recently was living among the northern tribes of the Ibriym, in the Galil region. He has recently moved back to Giybon, largest of the Four Towns.

  6. Interviews of Kephrath - Hekanefer

    This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Hekanefer, formerly a Mitsriy scribe attached to a military unit stationed in Gedjet and part of the army responsible for defending the province. He is now living in Shalem. If you like the interview and extract, The Flame Before Us is available as a full-length novel.

  7. Interviews of Kephrath - Nikleos and Kastiandra

    This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Nikleos and Kastiandra, who travelled with their Sherden clan east across the sea and then south from Wilios. The clan has now settled peaceably outside the town of Yabesh, to the east of the River and just outside the hill country. If you like the interview and extract, The Flame Before Us is available as a full-length novel.

  8. Interviews of Kephrath - Tadugari and Anilat

    This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Tadugari and Anilat, who fled the destruction of the city of Ikaret and settled in Shalem, at the southern edge of the hill country and a morning's walk from Kephrath. If you like the interview and extract, The Flame Before Us is available as a full-length novel.

  9. Metamorphoses
    Metamorphoses
    OVID
    Zeus Baba

    Ovid's is best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic.

  10. The Boy who died a fake death.
    The Boy who died a fake death.
    Stieg Larsson's successful flight.
    Martin Liss

    Do you really believe that the famous Stieg Larsson is dead? Do you really believe that an author that just got paid $ 60 000, dies in a heartattack? Why would he die? He had been threatened to death for 15 years, he finally found his way out, he took his "retirement funds" published it and is now living on the money, not even taxing for the treasure!!! Do you want to know how he did? Maybe one day you can do the same? The freedom of speach protect this work of art. May Steig and Charlie live!

  11. Mob Hunter #2
    Mob Hunter #2
    The Check Gang is laundering money...
    Martin Liss

    Some wonders why all Malaysians aircraft disappear without a trace? Others wonder how a check from Barcleys bank in Malasya, received as payment in the mail may cost money to redeem though it was reported stolen and the man was robbed of 2,000 crowns instead of getting paid? How can it be so that there are so many Russian buyers of Spanish businesses and apartments? What does the Russian president have to do with all this and how are check fraud connected with the missing aircrafts?

  12. God Has a Reason for Love!
    God Has a Reason for Love!
    The Love And The Family Poems. The Healing Meditations, Christian Lyrical Praying, Nature Poems.
    Grigoriy Burtayev

    The Love And The Family Poems. The Healing Meditations, Christian Lyrical Praying, Nature Poems. The Book On The Russian Language. The Book Of The Poetry And Photos.

  13. Mikistli (Death)
    Mikistli (Death)
    The Mexican Epic Series, Vol. 1
    David Martinez

    Veracruz, modern era. A vacationer from Mexico City encounters a strange device. After an accident, she wakes up in 1519, prehispanic Mexico, as part of the Cortés Expedition. Will she save her Aztec past from annihilation? Or will she have the courage to change history and stop the upcoming holocaust? In this gripping Historic Novel, we follow the story of Xochitl, a woman from modern Mexico who ends up a prisoner of time travel through an ancient Aztec device. The first part of the Mexican Epic series, we follow Xochitl through her personal story as the history of her peoples begins to unfold.. Experience Mexican history as you’ve never experienced it before.

  14. The Key
    The Key
    The Book of the Dead Collection (Book One)
    Amy Alexandra

    After years being moved around the care system in London, Tessa discovers she is from a long line of Time Shifters, going as far back as the Ancient Egyptians. Can she train her mind in order to Time Shift and piece together the Book of the Dead? or will her adolescent body, and thoughts of boys make it hard to focus?

  15. Black Magic
    Black Magic
    From the Case Files of Black & MacGillivray
    Dan Shaurette

    Capt. Matt Black and Dr. Andrew MacGillivray are a pair of paranormal private eyes hot on the trail of someone — or something — killing women during the raucous 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Stranger things are afoot however when their friend, L. Frank Baum, finds a man who was brutally attacked not far from the Fair.