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During an age when Macedonians hold sway in ancient Greece and Rome is on the ascendancy, Agis, a king of Sparta, attempts to reform the city-state before it sinks into decline. Unfortunately, helots that were conquered and kept in servitude to Spartan threaten to rebel just when improvement is at last on the horizon.

Life under Macedonia rule of ancient Sparta was tenuous at best and the Spartan people were little more than chattel. Spartan men were judged guilty without trial and were executed at will. Spartan women were worthless slaves free to be raped and discarded like garbage. The few Spartans who dared resist were slaughtered on the spot.Even in the midst of this carnage, love could not be extinguished as Hippomedon, a disenchanted Spartan aristocra...

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Do you dream of being a travel writer but need or want to stay close to home? Make Steady Money as a Travel Writer is loaded with specific methods and ideas to generate a dependable and consistent income as a travel writer, and the best part-without spending money on travels abroad or far afield in the U.S. Read this book and discover ways to carve out a niche for yourself as a travel writer concentrating on service articles.Earn a secure flow...

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Auschwitz/Birkenau, Kaufering, Dachau ... In 1945, Yacob (Jack) Adler was sixteen years old-the average age of an American high school student-yet weighed only sixty-five pounds and could barely stand. Stories of the Holocaust have been told numerous times, but Jack's candid narrative and firsthand account take us deep into the psyche of Nazi foot soldiers, their brutality, [add the Oxford comma here] and insatiable appetite for the viciou...

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Parthian Karma' by Jack Adler is the third book in the trilogy of the story of Kyra and Larius, a brother and sister born in First Century AD who are taken from their Parthian home when their parents are killed in battle by a roman soldier and are then made wards of Rome. Because they are of noble birth, they are not made slaves of Rome and they live a comfortable life until a series of events that thrust them into turmoil causing them to flee...

Two young Parthians, brother and sister, are caught up in the great rivalry between Rome and Parthia in Asia Minor during first century A.D.. At that time Parthia was Rome's greatest enemy, fightng over land as well as trade routes to Seres, land of silk. Larius and Kyra become wards of Rome when their father, a Parthian nobleman, is killed in battle. In order to save his sister from slavery and possibly worse, Larius is caught up in political...

This second book in the continuing story of Parthian brother and sister Larius and Kyra takes the reader to a place called Seres. Larius is once again caught up in court intrigue, and Kyra falls in love at last and marries. They are in another culture and must learn another language and ways that are strange and different from their own. Just when they think they are safe, their past comes back to haunt them. Will Larius and Kyra ever find pea...

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." So said W. Somerset Maugham, one of the 52 people whose achievements after age 65 are featured in Splendid Seniors: Great Lives, Great Deeds. The inspiring ensemble includes Mary Baker Eddy, who was 86 when she founded the Christian Science Monitor, Alexander Graham Bell, who received a patent for his work on a hydrofoil boat at age...

This second book in the continuing story of Parthian brother and sister Larius and Kyra takes the reader to a place called Seres. Larius is once again caught up in court intrigue, and Kyra falls in love at last and marries. They are in another culture and must learn another language and ways that are strange and different from their own. Just when they think they are safe, their past comes back to haunt them. Will Larius and Kyra ever find pea...

Two young Parthians, brother and sister, are caught up in the great rivalry between Rome and Parthia in Asia Minor during first century A.D.. At that time Parthia was Rome's greatest enemy, fightng over land as well as trade routes to Seres, land of silk. Larius and Kyra become wards of Rome when their father, a Parthian nobleman, is killed in battle. In order to save his sister from slavery and possibly worse, Larius is caught up in political...

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Shocking revelations in secret tapes about plans that might create a neo-fascist America.... a mysterious assassination of a high government official by a hit man who is himself then killed... and then terrorists and police alike searching for the missing tapes as a high-level conspiracy unfurls in a political thriller with frightening implications. Jim Palent is just an ordinary criminal uninterested in politics, but his viewpoint changes dra...

Faye joins a chat room to relax and make friends. She ends up getting more than she bargained for when one of her chat buddies steps off the computer screen and into her office. Ray thinks he might just be the man of Fayes dreams, but instead Faye and her husband find themselves in a nightmare.