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1) Woman of god
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
"St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Description
Following A Voice in the Wind and An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure as the Dawn continues the chronilcles of Hadassah, a Christian slave woman living during the height of the Roman Empire.
3) The Aeneid
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Series
Language
English
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The Aeneid (19 BC) is an epic poem by Roman poet Virgil. Translated by English poet laureate John Dryden in 1697, Virgil's legendary epic is the story of the hero Aeneas, a castaway from Troy whose adventures across the Mediterranean led him to Italy, where he discovered what would later become the city of Rome. Presented here in faithful translation, though rearranged to accommodate Dryden's rhyming couplets, The Aeneid is a treasure of classical...
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Flavia Albia mystery volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it's time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands -- in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, A Comedy of Terrors. Flavia Albia, daughter and successor of private informer Marcus Didius Falco is twiddling her thumbs with no clients during the December festival of...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An excellent introduction to a critical period in the history of Rome. Cicero comes across much as he must have lived: reflective, charming and rather vain.”—The Wall Street Journal
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”—John Adams
He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised...
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”—John Adams
He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised...
6) Ciao for now
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Fashion means everything to Violet Luciano; so does finishing design school. When she lands a summer internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she knows she's got to bring her A game. The interns will be competing against each other: whoever creates the best fashion design will be offered a job at a New York label. Violet is at the top of her class, but she's one of the only students who's approaching thirty. Chasing her dream has left...
7) Ancient Rome
Author
Publisher
McRae Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated introduction to ancient Rome, discussing the origins of the empire, and providing information about its people, religion, trade, war, art and architecture, families, and other aspects of daily life.
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Series
David Loogan volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
"David Loogan's dark past is revealed in this prequel to 'Bad Things Happen' ... On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter on a lonely road draws David into a romance with Jana Fletcher, a beautiful young law student. Jana is an enigma: living in a run-down apartment and sporting a bruise on her cheek that she refuses to explain. David would like to know her secrets, but he lets them lie--until it's too late. When Jana is brutally murdered, the...
9) Eternal
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Language
English
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Description
An aspiring writer, an athlete from a professional cyclist family and a mathematics prodigy find their bond tested by a love triangle and the spread of anti-Semitism and fascism in 1937 Italy.
"Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics...
10) The robe
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Language
English
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Description
More than 6 million copies sold! The classic Christian novel of the crucifixion and one Roman soldier’s transformation through faith.
At the height of his popularity, Lloyd C. Douglas was receiving an average of one hundred letters a week from fans. One of those fans, a department store clerk in Ohio named Hazel McCann, wrote to Douglas asking what he thought had happened to Christ’s garments after the crucifixion.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stepping Stone/Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What was it like to be a gladiator? How many people died in the destruction of Pompeii? How did Roman children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide: Ancient Rome and Pompeii.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A prima ballerina. Two American medics. And a young Jewish girl with no name... At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save Italian Jews in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events"-- Provided by publisher.
Rome, 1943. With the Nazi regime occupying the streets of Rome, British ballerina Julia Bradbury is stranded and forced to take refuge at a hospital on Tiber Island....
Author
Series
Mark of the thief volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
15) Pandora's boy
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
"A suspicious death and subsequent murder send Flavia Albia down a twisted path to expose corruption and betrayal in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery. First century Rome is not the quiet, orderly city that it pretends to be and in this environment, a very clever private informer can thrive. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, is a chip off the old block. She's taken over her father's old profession, and, like him, she occasionally...
Author
Series
The light we lost volume 2
Pub. Date
2025
Language
English
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Description
"It's been ten years. In case you're out there somewhere-in case you're listening, I'm here. And I have so much to tell you. It's been nearly ten years since Gabe's been gone when Lucy finds a tiny piece of paper in a box of his old photos. An address in Rome. Why did Gabe keep it, and what was he doing in Italy? Lucy buys a last-minute ticket. Impulsive, but Gabe always brought that out in her. Lucy's journey to uncover Gabe's secret leads her to...
Author
Series
Mark of the lion volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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Description
The holy city of Jerusalem has fallen. By the mercy of God, Hadassah, a young Christian girl survives famine, the deaths of her entire family, and unspeakable atrocities. And in Germania, a heroic young chieftain named Atretes battles the Romans with unmatched fury. It is prophesied tha Atretes will drive the Romans from his lands, and someday meet a dark complexioned woman from an exotic land whom he will come to love.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
One powerful family holds a city, a faith, and a woman in its grasp—from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Rome and Mistress of Rome.
Rome, 1492. The Holy City is drenched with blood and teeming with secrets. A pope lies dying and the throne of God is left vacant, a prize awarded only to the most virtuous—or the most ruthless. The Borgia family begins its legendary rise, chronicled by an innocent girl...
Rome, 1492. The Holy City is drenched with blood and teeming with secrets. A pope lies dying and the throne of God is left vacant, a prize awarded only to the most virtuous—or the most ruthless. The Borgia family begins its legendary rise, chronicled by an innocent girl...
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome
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In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in commonâmurder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered.
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