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123) Benedetta
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
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Description
Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Series
Publisher
Kultur International Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 55 B.C. Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome, turned eyes towards the mysterious isle of Britain. Within a few short years the Roman war machine had tamed the Celtic tribal society and transformed it into a province of the Empire.
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Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
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Description
"A picture book biography of Nancy Grace Roman, the astronomer who overcame obstacles such as weakening eyesight and teachers who did not believe astronomy was an appropriate career for a woman to lead the NASA team to build the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the empowering story of a female scientist's triumphs at a time when society discouraged women from pursuing scientific careers. It is also the story of an important milestone in the field of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"On a misty day in February, CE 194, Libertus, reluctant councillor and pavement maker by trade, is summoned to meet his patron at the local public baths. Marcus Aurelius is concerned because a distant cousin from Rome has announced his impending arrival and Marcus is convinced he is a spy for the Emperor Severus, despatched to Glevum to investigate reports of an 'act of treason.' Meanwhile, Libertus has concerns of his own. The local money-lender...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages. Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the position-and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political leader, and sets her life and career in full context. Catherine Hanley provides fresh insight into...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome's northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell....
Author
Publisher
Sarpedon
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"When Julius Caesar led his legions on a nine-year war of conquest to the north, he changed the course of European history and delayed the invasions from the east for five hundred years.This military history analyses and describes Caesar's campaigns in ancient France, Britain, and Germany, on land and sea. The author draws upon modern archaeological, linguistic, and historical research, which includes identification of the sites of many of Caesar's...
Author
Series
Fall of Egypt volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sharing the throne of Egypt with her eleven-year-old brother Ptolemy, Cleopatra is caught in a power struggle and forced to flee during a rebel uprising, while her sister Arsinoe, who follows Cleopatra into exile, is forced to chose between betraying her family or her country.
131) Hercules
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Taken from the gods as a newborn and adopted on earth, Hercules is just an awkward pillar of strength trying to fit in. What he wants most is to impress his father Zeus. When Hercules discovers Hades' sinister plot to take over Mount Olympus, he goes from zero to hero and, with the help of his pals Pegasus and Phil, discovers that real strength comes from the heart!
Author
Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 3
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Uniting with Jason, Piper, and Leo after their dangerous quest, Percy, Hazel, and Frank wonder who will be chosen to fulfill the Prophecy of Seven, completing their group's number, and sail with them to an ancient land to find the mysterious Doors of Death.
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Destellos
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"1893 - El pintor Francisco Oller entra en un pacto siniestro, un desesperado intento por ponerle fin a su obra maestra, El Velorio. 1970 - En medio de luchas estudiantiles en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, un guardia de seguridad del Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte en su primer día de trabajo presencia un asesinato y descubre una carta que lo convierte en cómplice. Actualidad - En la actualidad: Luego de una noche llena de errores, cuatro...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In New Rome, Paul Stephenson looks beyond traditional texts and well-known artifacts to offer a novel, scientifically-minded interpretation of antiquity's end. It turns out that the descent of Rome is inscribed not only in parchments but also in ice cores and DNA. From these and other sources, we learn that pollution and pandemics influenced the fate of Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. During its final five centuries, the empire in the...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes, and depicts one of the defining moments in European history: Charlemagne's coronation as emperor in Rome on Christmas Day 800. By contrast,...
137) Night and the city
Series
Criterion collection volume 274
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. With a history of nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime. But there is no easy money in this underworld and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Julian fought to return Rome to the old gods who had led his ancestors to build their vast empire. As emperor, Julian set about reforming the administration, conquering new territories, and reviving...
140) Matilda Empress
Author
Publisher
Archer
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Matilda, a twelfth-century Empress of the Holy Roman Empire and daughter of Henry I, is twenty-four years old and a widow. She returns to inherit her father's double realm of England and Normandy, but is promptly married against her will to Geoffrey, a minor continental nobleman. Absent from England at the time of her father's death, Matilda loses her throne to her cousin, Stephen, despite their ongoing and secret love affair. For almost twenty years,...
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