Colin Falconer
1) Colossus
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Language
English
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"A sweeping tale of courage, honor, and betrayal in the army of Alexander the Great Babylon, 323 BC. Alexander the Great has survived every effort to kill him. Restless, ruthless, he wonders which world to conquer next. He has a powerful new weapon--the war elephants he brought back from India. He also has a conquest in mind--the fabulous empire of Carthage. As Alexander plots, a war elephant named Colossus violently lashes out against the soldiers...
2) Silk Road
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Language
English
Description
The Holy Land, 1260. Josseran Sarrazini is chosen to escort the Pope's emissary on an embassy to the all-conquering Mongol horde in an effort to save all Christendom from destruction. But although he serves as a Templar warrior, Josseran is not all that he appears to be-and he despises the Pope's man on sight. Now they have to spend nine months in each other's company on the most dangerous and most inhospitable journey on the earth-across the legendary...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Inciting the envy of numerous European kings for his unrivaled collection of beautiful wives, slaves, and concubines, Suleyman of the Ottoman Empire is targeted by Tartar slave Hurrem, who plots to overthrow Suleyman and capture his harem. By the author of When We Were Gods. Reader's Guide included.
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When fiery and idealistic Kitty O'Kane excapes the crushing poverty of Dublin's tenements, she's determined that no one should ever suffer like she did. As she sets out to save the world, she finds herself at the forefront of events that shaped the early twentieth century. While working as a maid, she survives the sinking of the Titantic. As a suffragette in New York's Greenwich Village, she's jailed for breaking storefront windows. And in traveling...
Publisher
What Were We Thinking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Marinara sauce runs red through the streets of New Haven in this surprising, delectable documentary which profiles three pizza restaurants, Pepe, Sally's, and Modern, that together stand as the cornerstone of the town's Italian-American heritage and connoisseurs of the tastiest incarnations of America's favorite comfort food. This mouth-watering documentary will make viewers laugh and leave them hungry." --
