Haaren's Famous Men of Rome consists of concise but comprehensive biographies of famous Romans throughout Rome's history. Some of the Romans profiled include Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus,
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the loo
This is the first major study in English this century of the life and reign of one of the greatest of medieval monarchs, Philip Augustus (Philip II), conqueror and crusader, who ruled France from 1180
In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that ther
"The 'Astronomica' of Manilius is a poem in five books, at least partly written under Augustus, which purports to teach the reader the art of astrology and the means by which an accurate horoscope may
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller--soon to be a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson!If you love Eleanor and Park, Hazel and Augustus, and Mia and Adam, you’ll love
In the fifth installment of the popular Ghetto Girls series, Coco suffers an injury that leaves her more helpless than she could have imagined. As she relies on her best friend Deedee for love and su
In Thin Line, the police code of silence is tested when officer Rita Sanchez’s eight-year-old son, Shareef, witnesses the murder of his grandmother and other family members. The next day he is
As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, English operative Augustus Whittlesby gets wind of a top secret device, to be demonstrated over the course of a house party at Malmaison. The
Brazen, incisive, and outrageous, Lies Of A Real Housewife, spans the years of early childhood through adulthood. It’s an illustration of guts, and the determination it takes to overcome tragedies in
Second wife of the emperor Augustus, mother of Ins successor Tiberius, grandmother of Claudius, and great-grandmother of Caligula, the empress Livia lived close to the center of Roman political power
Today’s young people face a different world and more complicated issues than ever before. Bullying, Gangs, violence, drugs, alcohol, smoking, teen pregnancy, depression, and suicide have found their w
The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated of the poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and, with Virgil, the most influential. These marvelously constructed poe
Long before there was a band, there was a boy: a young Keith Richards, who was introduced to the joy of music through his beloved granddad, Theodore Augustus Dupree, affectionately known as "Gus," who
The Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerIf you love Eleanor and Park, Hazel and Augustus, and Mia and Adam, you’ll love the story of Maddy, a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Ol
Soul has just finished his 18-month sentence for a parole violation. Still in love with his son’s mother, America, he wants nothing more than for them to become a family and move on from his pa
Erotica at its gritty best, Power of the P is the seductive story of an entrepreneur who wields his powerful status in unimaginable — and sometimes unethical — ways. This exotic ride thro
A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the author of the bestselling books on Cicero, Augustus, and ancient Rome Filled
Includes works by Walker Percy, Tom Wolfe, Williams Faulkner, Martha Lacy Hall, Truman Capote, Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty, Clyde Edgerton, Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Augustus BAldwin Longs
