Fictional characters spark our imaginations and immerse us in the setting, inviting us to empathize with their journeys while we learn something new on every page. I so enjoyed hearing their favorites when we talked, and after our recording I spotted a plethora of titles on my own shelves that would likely make similarly-minded readers very happy.Īlthough I certainly enjoy nonfiction about historical events, there’s something special about the way a fictional story illuminates a piece of history. One of their favorite spans of common ground is their mutual love of realistic books that are based around-or simply include-lesser-known historical events. Rebekah and Beverly might be from different generations, but judging by their taste in books, you’d never know it! "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Readers, we just released a delightful episode of What Should I Read Next featuring our first grandmother-granddaughter duo. Who will lie forgotten in the embers, and who will rise to shape the bloody dawn of a new age?
Seven authors bring to life the epic tale of the Trojan War: its heroes, its villains, its survivors, its dead. and these are their stories.Ī young princess and an embittered prince join forces to prevent a fatal elopement.Ī tormented seeress challenges the gods themselves to save her city from the impending disaster.Ī tragedy-haunted king battles private demons and envious rivals as the siege grinds on.Ī captured slave girl seizes the reins of her future as two mighty heroes meet in an epic duel.Ī grizzled archer and a desperate Amazon risk their lives to avenge their dead.Ī trickster conceives the greatest trick of all.Ī goddess' son battles to save the spirit of Troy even as the walls are breached in fire and blood. In the shadow of Troy's gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens, heroes and cowards, seers and kings. But the Fates have other plans-the Fates, and a woman named Helen. Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years.
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