"A savvy former street child working at a human rights law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this fresh, propulsive debut novel about fortune and survival"--

The Battle of Hastings has been lost and the iron fist of William the Bastard has begun to squeeze the life out of England, but there is one who still stands against the foreign invasion --Hereward, The Winter Warrior.

"The relationship between the Roman Empire and its rival, the Parthian-Persian Empire, has long been viewed as bloody, hostile, and destructive. In fact, the truth is more complex. For more than seven hundred years, the Romans lived side by side by their eastern neighbors, sometimes at war, more often at peace, almost always trading with each other to their mutual benefit. The Roman Empire was wealthier and larger than the Persian Empire and its predecessor,...

Tells the story of the emperors, slaves, poets, and peasants who wrested order from chaso, built the most cosmopolitan society the world has ever seen, and shaped the Roman Empire in the first century.

Gaius Petreius Ruso and his new wife, Tilla, return to Roman-occupied Britannia, where Ruso investigates the disappearance of a tax man and a considerable sum of money amid sinister warnings and a treacherous conspiracy.

Relates how a crippled young shepherd comes to accompany the three Kings on their way to pay hommage to the newborn Jesus.

Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...