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January 2020
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FictionJune 2021Nova Roma 1: De Itinere in Occasum
by Gentry, Anderson
In 49 BC Gnaeus Pompey Magnus and the cream of the Roman nobility flee to Spain before Julius Caesar’s forces reach Rome. When a freak storm blows them off-course and propels them east across the Atlantic Ocean, they endeavor re-create the roman republic in a strange and savage new world.
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Historical fictionSeptember 2020Gods of Rome
by Thomas Greanias
"Skillful. Exciting. Believable. Recommended!" - Kirkus DEATH IS GUARANTEED A wildly popular playwright in Ancient Rome, falsely condemned by jealous rivals, miraculously escapes certain death in the arena with a state secret that could bring down the empire and avenge the life and love he lost. Hold on tight to the reins of your runaway chariot as Gods of Rome sweeps you from the halls of power in Caesar’s palace to the slums of the city, from rat-infested sewers to the high seas, from one end of a mighty empire to another and everywhere in between, where countless assassins lurk, throat-grabbing surprises await, and “death is guaranteed.” Always. From Thomas Greanias, New York Times bestselling author of Raising Atlantis, The Atlantis Prophecy and The Atlantis Revelation, comes a meticulously researched and masterfully crafted conspiracy thriller of epic scale inspired by real people and events.
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FictionMarch 2022Il Varcaporta
by Laura Costantini
London, 1897.England prevails over all the countries of Europe thanks to the discovery of Kh-Ram, a mysterious source of energy that freed it from coal and steam. Of course, substance comes at a cost, but Victoria's kingdom acts pragmatically: it hides its dissimilarities and exploits them as needed. Of wretches the streets are full. Some become fodder for processing energy. Another, selected, enters an elite body that masters Kh-Ram, which is only possible for a pair, that is, a pair of young people with certain characteristics, including an exclusive, absolute, and strictly male bond. The substance, in fact, abhors women, movement, and heat. England willingly turns a blind eye to such unions; it also turns two blind eyes to the fate of the unfortunate ones. But what if that is not the only price to pay? Aster Paul, Astrea Lucinda, Zachary Tucker, Devereux Willoghby, and some old acquaintances will find out and will have to decide which side to take. It will be a struggle for survival marked by unpredictable alliances and deception, in which the most intense and purest feelings will become the only guide.
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Graphic novelsMocha Dick
The legend of the White Whale
by Francisco Ortega, Gonzalo Martínez
After turning 15, Caleb Hienam, son of a whaling businessman, goes on his first journey to learn the family business. In the ship he meets Aliro Leftraru, one of the sailors, a descendant of the mapuche people. When the ship where they work bumps into a whaling ship filled with survivors from a monstrous white whale attack, Caleb and Aliro will discover the story of Mocha and will develop a plan to prevent the indiscriminate hunting of whales on the Pacific Ocean... An adventure that history will never forget. Based on the real story that inspired Moby Dick! Mocha Dick has been published in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, México, Spain, Colombia and France.
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HistoryJune 2013Across Great Divides
by Monique Roy
Across Great Divides is a timeless story of the upheavals of war, the power of family, and the resiliency of human spirit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, one Jewish family refused to be destroyed and defied the Nazis only to come up against another struggle—confronting apartheid in South Africa. The novel chronicles the story of Eva and Inge, two identical twin sisters growing up in Nazi Germany. As Jews, life becomes increasingly difficult for them and their family under the Nazi regime. After witnessing the horrors of Kristallnacht, they realize they must leave their beloved homeland if they hope to survive. They travel to Antwerp, Belgium, and then on to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, chasing the diamond trade in hopes of finding work for their father, a diamond merchant. Finally, they find a home in beautiful South Africa and begin to settle down. But just as things begin to feel safe, their new home becomes caught up in it’s own battles of bigotry and hate under the National Party’s demand for an apartheid South Africa. Eva and Inge wonder if they will ever be allowed to live in peace, though they cling to the hope for a better day when there will be “an understanding of the past, compassion for all humanity, and …hope and courage to move forward across great divides.” Worldwide rights are available for this novel. I would like to sell Across Great Divides in Europe, Africa and Asia. The readership for Across Great Divides are history buffs, both female and male, and all ages, from late teens through adult.
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Historical adventureJanuary 2013Waggoners Gap
by Tony Peluso
Waggoners Gap is a spiritual place with unique natural beauty and breathtaking vistas overlooking the Cumberland Valley near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is also a pivotal locale in the sweeping story of two disparate families fighting for survival and success in the dark decades surrounding World War II. The Genero clan is at the heart of the story, which tracks the trials and travails of mother, father, son, and daughter whose lives are inevitably affected by a richer and more influential family, the Monarch clan, who control industry and primary employment for most of the people living in the shadow of Waggoners Gap. The generational confluence of these players takes place across a range of time in American history that includes World War I, the Great Depression and culminates in World War II when the Genero children—brother and sister—both enlist to support the war effort. During this time, the lecherous younger Monarch takes over the booming textile business and secretly begins to siphon off profits while mistreating his employees, including the Generos. The saga winds from Waggoners Gap through area colleges to Army training bases, ships at sea, battlefields in Europe and the Pacific, and back again as truly colorful characters develop and influence each other through the decades. Through it all, in spite of deadly hardships overseas and dark dealings on the home front, Waggoners Gap draws the players together and repels them like a spinning magnet.
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Historical adventureOctober 2014Demonwalker
A 1920s Thriller
by Nick Roteman
Born in 1904, the daughter of the industrialist Viscount Roxleigh, should have meant a cossited life of marriage and a home full of children. But no, she cares witha passion for those less fortunate, and through the guidance of her liberal Governness is introduced to one of the first women solicitors, and into the world of Woman's Rights and Unionisation of the workforce in the family business; all before her 18th birthday. On the death of her father, a year later, her ruthless brother (34 years old) decides to marry her off to one of his odious friends, in an attempt to silence her, and take over full control of the family business. She escapes with her aunt, her Governess, and her best friend to New York, but deciding to drive to Chicago they get lost and are attacked by a ruthless gang. She alone escapes and is taken in by her wealthy benefactor. Finally she finds solace in the ghettos of Chicago, amongst the coloured Railway and Meat Packing workers. There she discovers The Hosanna Free Hospital and her true vocation as a healer. But soon she is involved in the Unionisation of the workers and free hospital treatment. She comes into direct conflict with the Bosses and the Mayor, and is brought to the attention of Chicago's no1 mobster, Don Vincent Rizzelli.
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Historical fictionI Am Cyrus
The Story of the Real Prince of Persia
by Alexander Jovy
This stunning novel brings to life the enthralling world of Cyrus the Great, the leader of Ancient Persia - the world's first great empire - and the life and times of Cyrus himself, a magnificent leader whose passion won the hearts of his subjects and of two extraordinary women - the wildly beautiful warrior Roshan and the exquisite Cassadane. Cyrus's vision, extraordinarily ahead of its time, of a society where religious tolerance could and should prevail inspired the foundation of his fabulous empire, yet he was ruthless in his conquests, as Ancient Lydia and the fabled city of Babylon - the richest city in the world - fell to him. The book features an emotional love story, as well as riveting battle scenes, and is written with an energy and passion that infuse every page. I am Cyrus brings history alive as few other novels do, and is full of action, passion, comedy, tragedy and inspiration, and its theme that true co-operation between people is only won through tolerance, is profoundly relevant to our own times. I am Cyrus is a story that has been close to Alexander Jovy's heart for many years, he recalls his father telling him about ancient Persia and the mysteries it holds. As Alex says: 'I was fascinated even then how such an early civilization could have achieved so much and be so unknown to our modern world.' Alex has spent many years researching the story of Cyrus the Great. I am Cyrus is at heart a story of historical fact though it uses imaginative elements to fill in the inevitable gaps in what is known.
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FictionJune 2011Sea Witch
The First Voyage of CaptainJesamiah Acorne
by Helen Hollick
TROUBLE FOLLOWS CAPTAIN JESAMIAH ACORNE LIKE A SHIP'S WAKE: The Time: The golden age of piracy – 1716 The Place: The pirate round – from Africa to the Caribbean At 15 Jesamiah Acorne escapes the bullying of his elder half brother to become a pirate with only two loves – the sea and his freedom. But his life is to change after an attack on a merchant ship off the coast of South Africa when he meets the mysterious Tiola Oldstagh, an insignificant girl – or so he assumes until he discovers her true identity, that of a white witch. Tiola and Jesamiah becomes lovers, but the wealthy Stefan van Overstratten also wants Tiola as his wife. Meanwhile, Jesamiah's half-brother, Phillipe Mereno, is determined to seek revenge for resentments of the past. When the call of the sea and an opportunity to commandeer a beautiful ship, the Sea Witch, is put in Jesamiah's path he must choose between his life as a pirate or his love for Tiola. He wants both… but Mereno and van Overstratten want him dead. Tiola must use her gift of Craft to rescue her lover, but first she must brave the darkness of the ocean depths and confront the supernatural presence of Tethys, the goddess of the sea, who will stop at nothing to claim the soul of Jesamiah Acorne for herself.
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Historical fictionCeridwen of Kilton
Book Two of The Circle of Ceridwen Saga
by Octavia Randolph
Book Two of the English Adventure loved by over 100,000 readers in 125 countries... An uncontrolled passion. A heart-breaking decision. A battle that seals the Fate of all. Ninth-century Saxon England crumbles under the onslaught of a relentless foe - the Danish Vikings. Ceridwen, a young woman with divided loyalties, watches as the peace and plenty she enjoys at the Saxon stronghold of Kilton gives way to wary watchfulness. Her dearest friend, Ælfwyn, sold in marriage to a Dane in a desperate bid for peace, travels to Kilton and recounts the events that befell the fortress of Four Stones in captured Lindisse. But Ceridwen is also confronted by Sidroc, the Dane she ran from, and cannot forget. Ceridwen's life revolves around her beloved husband Gyric, rendered now unfit for battle and seemingly, for happiness. At the heart of Kilton is Gyric's brother Godwin, the young lord who struggles both against the Danish invaders and an unthinkable desire. Growing tensions between the brothers mirror the escalating threat to the Saxons from the Danes. The Fate of all at Kilton hangs in the balance at a single terrifying battle... Meticulously researched and thrillingly brought to life, here is Ceridwen of Kilton, Book Two of the historical adventure The Circle of Ceridwen Saga. Continue the saga: Ceridwen of Kilton.
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Historical fictionThe Circle of Ceridwen
Book One of The Circle of Ceridwen Saga
by Octavia Randolph
It is the year 871. Of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, five have fallen to the invading Vikings. No trait is more valued than loyalty, and no possession more precious than one's steel. Across this war-torn landscape travels fifteen year old Ceridwen, now thrust into the lives of the conquerors. Epic...immensely satisfying...an impressive achievement - Historical Novel Society The English Adventure loved by over 100,000 readers in 125 countries... Lost in the frozen woods, Ceridwen is discovered by the warriors accompanying young Ælfwyn, daughter of a Saxon lord, sold against her will in marriage as part of a peace treaty with a marauding Viking war chief. Their destination is the captured fortress of Four Stones, a ruin holding glittering treasure. There Ælfwyn must keep her vow and wed Yrling - and Ceridwen must do all she can to support her new friend in the rebuilding of the ravaged village and great hall. But living with the enemy affords Ceridwen unusual freedoms - and unlooked-for conflicts. Amongst them she explores again her own heathen past, and learns to judge each man on his own merits. Yrling's nephews Sidroc and Toki, both formidable warriors yet as different as night and day, compete to win Ceridwen for their own. Through both guile and goodness Ceridwen and Ælfwyn begin transforming the world of Four Stones. But the threat of full-scale war escalates, and a midnight party of furtive Danes delivers someone to Four Stones who destroys the girls' hopes of peace and contentment. Now Ceridwen must summon all her courage - a courage which will be sorely tested as she defies both Saxon and Dane and undertakes an extraordinary adventure to save a man she has never met. Lose yourself in The Circle of Ceridwen
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Historical fictionJune 2012The Unicorn Conspiracy
by Quentin Cope
The Unicorn Conspiracy It is the early autumn of 1973; the setting for a story of International politics, high finance and personal revenge, triggered by events that took place on the Oman’s high plateau at Jebel Akhtar during a cold January in 1959. Leading to a scenario that could turn out to be the beginnings of World War Three, the action moves quickly through Africa, the Middle East and Europe. One man is tasked to prevent what some would later look back upon as a possible Armageddon. A bitter, exiled religious leader, gaining an increasing Islamic following by the day, has the power to release the might of a cold war Soviet Union on a financially crippled Europe. America is retreating back in to its shell and divorcing itself from any military responsibilities to a recently formed and generally distrusted European Community. Maxwell Armstrong, a man desperately needing to extract himself from the clutches of the British SIS, is the only person who has the ability to communicate with the exiled religious Imam in a determined attempt to call off an inevitable Jihad to be proclaimed against the west. The clock is ticking, but standing firmly in his path are the powerful, ruthless and manipulative members of a secret organization calling itself 'Unicorn'. Seemingly betrayed at every turn, the ruthless British agent desperately attempts to stay one step ahead of the murderous, clandestine society, but will he be in time? This is a thriller to the very bitter end with Maxwell Armstrong following a trail of death, torture and mass destruction: a determined man forced to call upon primitive instincts to survive.
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Historical fictionAugust 2013The Geneveh Project
by Quentin Cope
The Geneveh Project It’s 1987 and the location is the Arabian Gulf. A war is raging between Iran and Iraq, two of the largest oil producers in the Middle East. British entrepreneur Declan Doyle is confronted by Mohsen Raza, the much feared head of the IRG, Iranian Revolutionary Guard. The Iranian blood-letting battle with the Iraqis has been going on for too many years. It is at a stalemate and choking the cash struck Iranians to the point of humiliating surrender. Doyle agrees to embark on a last ditch operation coded 112/406 but more widely known as ‘The Geneveh Project’. The plan is to get oil out of Iran in a way that has never been attempted before. Will he succeed? ... Can he succeed? Not if the American CIA have their way. Doyle is committed to the Geneveh Project but the covert activities of Colonel Oliver Gresham leave a trail of pain and suffering that provide him with fewer and fewer choices. He has to complete the work on time or else the leader of the fanatical IRG will want to know why - with life threatening consequences. The simple question is, can the hard headed British entrepreneur complete the Geneveh Project in time? The head of the Iranian Rev Guard has put his life on it. The CIA have put a billion dollar submarine on it.
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Historical fictionFebruary 2014The Doksany Legacy
by Quentin Cope
The Doksany Legacy It’s the winter of 1987. Mohsen Raza, merciless head of Iran’s feared Revolutionary Guard hunts millionaire oilman Declan Doyle, whose personal undertaking to deliver the Geneva Project … a vital offshore oilfield installation in the Persian Gulf, crucial to the survival of an Iranian economy, weakened by the war with Iraq … has proven worthless. Englishman Doyle, desperate to escape Raza’s retribution and save his company, makes a frantic last throw of a set of dice loaded heavily against him. Evading Raza’s forces he flees the tiny Arab state of Abu Nar, feverishly bent on seeking the truth in a dying man’s story of Nazi treasure, one great enough to finance and complete the Geneva Project, saving him from a possibly agonising end at Raza’s hands. With nail-biting action from the start, Doyle’s frantic escape from his Iranian hunters leads him through dangerous, unpredictable Mujahideen-controlled Pakistan, onward to Northern Europe and finally to the Arab enclave of Dhofar, a desolate place that holds the key to possibly saving his life … a life spent cheating and ruled by greed for which he knows, inevitably, a price must be paid. What Doyle cannot know is his chequered past and discovery of much sought after Nazi treasure, has set other hunters on his trail … and Mohsen Raza may not end up being the very worst of them. The Doksany Legacy … the much-anticipated sequel to Quentin Cope’s highly successful action and adventure novel The Geneveh Project, is an un-put-downable tale of stark terror and final retribution for a lone, desperate man fleeing some of the most feared adversaries in the world … until finally forced to face the ultimate legacy of his own past.
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FictionOctober 2011Song at Dawn
1150 in Provence
by Jean Gill
Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction - a medieval thriller/romanceBook 1 in the Troubadours Series 1150 in Provence, where love and marriage are as divided as Christian and Muslim. A historical thriller set in Narbonne just after the Second Crusade. On the run from abuse, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her petticoats. Her talent finds a patron in Alienor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the Queen's finest troubadour and Commander of the Guard, Dragonetz los Pros. Weary of war, Dragonetz uses Jewish money and Moorish expertise to build that most modern of inventions, a papermill, arousing the wrath of the Church. Their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of medieval Narbonne. Watch the trailer youtube.com/watch?v=XZvFmOkD6Pc
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Warfare & defenceJanuary 2014Waffen SS Britain
by Paul Hurley
The novel comprises well researched fact and plausible fiction, carefully interwoven to form an alternative and frightening history. It is a military tale, not just a war story, it is a thriller and love story based on the premise that in 1940 Germany invaded Britain! It is written factually until the point where the allies reach Dunkirk. The cream of the allied armies are then trapped and imprisoned! The Germans invade Britain successfully. In the summer of 1940, Churchill stood virtually alone in his refusal to surrender whilst facing almost certain defeat. In reality, if Britain had surrendered in that summer of 1940 the European war would have ended. Quite possibly no Pearl Harbour and no Italian or further Russian involvement, hostilities would have ceased worldwide. But what of the Holocaust, would that have gone ahead? The evidence suggests that under Hitler and the Nazis it would! The book is thought provoking and fictional.
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FantasyJanuary 2013A Symphony of Echoes
The Chronicles of St. Mary's series
by Jodi Taylor
Book Two in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. In the second book in the Chronicles of St Mary's series, Max and the team visit Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper, withess the murder of Archbishop Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and discover that dodos make a grockling noise when eating cucumber sandwiches. But they must also confront an enemy intent on destroying St Mary's - an enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy History itself to do it.
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Historical fictionNovember 2022Nightingale & Flittermouse
A plane crash changed everything
by Malene Klein
She was a true believer in the Third Reich, but a plane crash changed everyhting. Eventful, moving world war two story about a nurse turned resistance fighter heroine and an allied pilot. A new, fresh angle to WW2 seen through the eyes of a Danish nurse, but in an international setting. ABOUT THE PLOT: When Elisa, the daughter of a fanatic Danish nazi, joins the German Red Cross, she feels both proud and hopeful. Despite being surrounded by war, young Elisa still has a rosy and naiive picture of the war, and sees her stationing in occupied France as a bit of an exciting adventure. All that changes when she saves the life of an allied pilot. She starts doubting the Nazi ideology and a growing resentment against Hilter starts building. Will she still continue to serve the Third Reich or will she start listening to the voice inside? In the midst of a devasting war, love starts growing between Elisa and the allied pilot and soon Elisa is engaged in the resistance risking her life and going up against everyhting she used to believe in. CAPTIVATING NEW ANGLE TO WW2 STRONG FEMALE PROTAGNIST, NURSE TURNED RESISTANCE FIGHTER EVENTFUL PLOT
