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Some believe the Ambhan Empire is cursed. But Arwa doesn't simply believe it - she knows it's true • Widowed by the infamous, unnatural massacre at Darez Fort, Arwa was saved only by the strangeness of her blood - a strangeness she had been taught all her life to suppress. She offers up her blood and service to the imperial family and makes common cause with a disgraced, illegitimate prince who has turned to forbidden occult arts to find a cure to the darkness hanging over the Empire • Using the power in Arwa's blood, they seek answers in the realm of ash: a land where mortals can seek the ghostly echoes of their ancestors' dreams. But the Emperor's health is failing, and a terrible war of succession hovers on the horizon, not just for the imperial throne, but for the magic underpinning Empire itself

On the isle of Ithaca, Queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband, Odysseus, sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace - but this is shattered by the arrival of Orestes, king of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra • Orestes's hands are stained with his mother's blood. Not so long ago, the son of Agamemnon took Queen Clytemnestra's life on Ithaca's sands. Now, racked with guilt, he is slowly losing his mind • Penelope knows destruction will follow in his wake as surely as the Furies circle him. His uncle, Menelaus, the battle-hungry king of Sparta, longs for Orestes's throne - and if he can seize it, no one will be safe from his violent whims • Trapped between two mad kings, Penelope fights to keep war from Ithaca's shores

'The Age of Kings is dead. And I have killed it.' • Field Marshal Tamas's coup against his king sends corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brings bread to the starving. But it also provokes war in the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics and greedy scrambling for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers' unions and mercenary forces • Stretched to his limit, Tamas relies heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be Tamas's estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty will be tested to its limit • Now, amid the chaos, a whispered rumour is spreading. A rumour about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods returning to walk the earth

Чтобы спасти короля, убей короля… • Ассасин Гиртон Косолапый и его учитель вернулись в город в надежде найти убежище. Смерть, как и всегда, следует за Гиртоном по пятам. Места, которое он знал, больше не существует • Вокруг бушует война, и три короля претендуют на одну и ту же корону, и один из них — старый друг Гиртона — Руфра. Гиртон спешит раскрыть заговор с целью убийства Руфры в день, который должен был бы стать днем величайшей победы короля • Но пока Гиртон разбирается с угрозами внутри и за пределами военного лагеря Руфры, он не может не задаваться вопросом, не скрывается ли его злейший враг под его собственной кожей… • "Blood of Assassins" — это 2-я книга из цикла The Wounded Kingdom (за ней следует заключительная "King of Assassins"), стильное фэнтези и идеальная книга в подарок для тех, кто ценит красоту эпических битв и захватывающих приключений древней гильдии мастеров убийств

Чтобы поймать убийцу, используйте другого наемного убийцу • Гиртону Косолапому, ученику лучшего в стране наемного убийцы, еще многое предстоит узнать об искусстве отнимать жизни. Однако его последняя миссия ставит перед Гиртоном и его учителем гораздо более сложную задачу: спасти жизнь. Кто-то пытается убить наследника престола, и именно Гиртон и его учитель должны найти предателя и предотвратить убийство принца • В Королевстве на грани гражданской войны и в замке, полном лжи, Гиртон находит друзей, которых никогда не искал; обязанности, которых никогда не хотел, и заговор, который может уничтожить целую страну • "Age of Assassins" — это 1-я книга из цикла The Wounded Kingdom (за ней следует "Blood of Assassins"), стильное фэнтези и идеальная книга в подарок для тех, кто ценит красоту эпических битв и захватывающих приключений древней гильдии мастеров убийств

Король умер. Да здравствует король! • Прошли долгие годы мира, время относительного спокойствия для убийцы Гиртона Косолапого. Даже Чума Забвения, опустошившая остальные королевства, казалось, обошла их стороной • Но теперь Руфра взирает на пустующий трон Верховного короля и отправляет свой двор в столицу, крысиное гнездо интриг и убийств, где соберутся все враги, которых он когда-либо нажил. Будет разыгран финал двадцатилетней политики и убийств в его стремлении стать королем. Царь всех царей • Друзья становятся врагами, враги становятся друзьями, а бог смерти, Невидимый, стоит ближе, чем когда-либо, отбрасывая свою тень на все самое дорогое для Гиртона • "King of Assassins" — это финальная 3-я книга из цикла The Wounded Kingdom, стильное фэнтези и идеальная книга в подарок для тех, кто ценит красоту эпических битв и захватывающих приключений древней гильдии мастеров убийств

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When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls a turbulent piece of personal history as well: his unfinished book on 19th-century president James Buchanan

War Makes Monsters of Everyone • Foolish Cur, once named Wen Alder, finds that his allies in the rebellion might cross any line if it means freedom from the Empire. But he can't overcome a foe as strong as Emperor Tenet alone • Rebellion Has Unintended Consequences • Koro Ha, Foolish Cur's former tutor, discovers the Empire is not so forgiving of those who raise a traitor. And their suspicion may cost him and his people more than he can imagine • The Gods are Lurking in the Shadows • As war against the Empire rages, Foolish Cur knows there is a greater threat. The emperor plans his own coup against the gods, and they will wreak destruction if he tries. To stop him, Foolish Cur might have to risk everything - and resort to ancient magics that could tear the world apart

In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna. From then until 751 AD, Ravenna was first the capital of the Western Roman Empire, then that of the immense kingdom of Theoderic the Goth and finally the centre of Byzantine power in Italy • In this engrossing account Judith Herrin explains how scholars, lawyers, doctors, craftsmen, cosmologists and religious luminaries were drawn to Ravenna where they created a cultural and political capital that dominated northern Italy and the Adriatic. As she traces the lives of Ravenna's rulers, chroniclers and inhabitants, Herrin shows how the city became the pivot between East and West; and the meeting place of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian cultures

The Great Time War has raged for centuries, ravaging the universe. Scores of human colony planets are now overrun by Dalek occupation forces. A weary, angry Doctor leads a flotilla of Battle TARDISes against the Dalek stronghold but in the midst of the carnage, the Doctor’s TARDIS crashes to a planet below: Moldox • As the Doctor is trapped in an apocalyptic landscape, Dalek patrols roam amongst the wreckage, rounding up the remaining civilians. But why haven’t the Daleks simply killed the humans? • Searching for answers the Doctor meets 'Cinder', a young Dalek hunter. Their struggles to discover the Dalek plan take them from the ruins of Moldox to the halls of Gallifrey, and set in motion a chain of events that will change everything. And everyone

When Thomas Roe arrived in India in 1616 as James I's first ambassador to the Mughal Empire, the English barely had a toehold in the subcontinent. Their understanding of South Asian trade and India was sketchy at best, and, to the Mughals, they were minor players on a very large stage. Roe was representing a kingdom that was beset by financial woes and deeply conflicted about its identity as a unified 'Great Britain' under the Stuart monarchy. Meanwhile, the court he entered in India was wealthy and cultured, its dominion widely considered to be one of the greatest and richest empires of the world • In Nandini Das's fascinating history of Roe's four years in India, she offers an insider's view of a Britain in the making, a country whose imperial seeds were just being sown