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22) Gunpowder empire
Author
Series
Crosstime traffic volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannf�fuher Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Luke, as a friend and physician, risks his life every time he ventures into the city of Rome to visit Paul, held captive in Nero's bleakest prison cell. Before Paul's execution, Luke resolves to write a book that details the beginnings of "The Way" and the birth of what will come to be known as the church. But Nero is determined to rid Rome of Christians. Paul has survived floggings, shipwreck, starvation, stoning, hunger and thirst, cold and exposure....
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Join the Scavengers as they travel in their time machine to different periods and places in history including ancient Egypt, Rome, a Viking village, a Medieval castle, an Elizabethan theater, a Caribbean settlement, revolutionary France and the American West.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Epic in scope, yet deeply personal, this novelization offers a unique perspective on the story of the resurrection. Roman Tribune Clavius is assigned by Pilate to keep the radical followers of the recently executed Yeshua from stealing the body and inciting revolution. When the body goes missing despite his precautions, Clavius must hunt it down. His investigation leads him from the halls of Herod Antipas to the Garden of Gethsemane and brings him...
29) Find me
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Elio has become a gifted classical pianist in Rome. His father, Samuel, is on a trip from Florence to visit Elio when a chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends changes his life forever. Elio moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair. Meanwhile Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Consider another city at the edge of the empire - an agricultural community comprised of a diverse population. Here you'll learn about the farm-based economy and its relationship to the consumer city of Rome, and you'll examine the integration of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian ethnic groups.
31) You(r) teen: losing weight : the owner's manual to simple and healthy weight management at any age
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Offers tips and strategies for losing weight intelligently, explaining the limits of the human body and providing nutrition and exercise suggestions to lose weight and keep it off for good. Includes recipes.
32) The defiant
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In this highly anticipated sequel to "The valiant," Fallon and her warrior sisters find themselves thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, one that will threaten not only Fallon's heart - and her love for Roman soldier Cai - but the very heart of the ancient Roman Empire.
Author
Series
The Magdalene chronicles volume 6
Publisher
Literati Editions
Pub. Date
22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Father Michael Dominic, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive in Rome, is entrusted with the mission of transporting the original 17th-century trial documents of Galileo to Loyola Law School in Chicago. The stage is set for a modern historical mock trial of Galileo's original heresy charges, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the legendary event. In this riveting reenactment, Galileo's fate lies in the hands of the Vatican's current chief prosecutor-a...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
Language
English
Description
After a thrilling jaunt in the far east, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by one of Watson's relatives in Cornwall, half of which he gave to his dear friend, Sherlock Holmes. Financially secure, the two are now free to spend as much time on Baker Street and the Continent as they please, and the duo find themselves as comfortable in Rome on the banks of the Tiber as the Thames. As Holmes rationalizes and ratiocinates...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rome's golden age comes to life through writings of the time, revealing surprising parallels between their concerns and ours. We learn of Roman urban problems from Juvenal, of patriotism from Cincinnatus, and of the Justinian Code reaffirming their great legacy of laws...equal justice for all citizens. An LCA release.
37) Ancient Greece
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides information about ancient Greece, discussing government, gods, the Olympics, art, science, and other related topics.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After her husband walks out on her, Maggie Harris realizes that she's spent her life caring for others, and begins to question what she wants out of life.
At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage, two mostly happy children. On the day Adam walks out the door, Maggie realizes that while she's been busy caring for everyone else, she's become invisible to the world-- and to herself. She begins to rebuild her life with a trip to Rome, a new...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Centering us in Rome, but transporting us seamlessly into worlds as varied and exotic as they are emotionally real, these stories paint landscapes that are populated-vividly, hauntingly-by animals: from squawking, violent seagulls to magical snakes to a tiny dog on the side of a deserted road to starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation. In the foreground, in unforgettable, cinematic frames, events unfold, especially in the lives...
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