Praevalere

Praevalere
T.S. Anthony (Author), Alexander Chase (Illustrator)

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A vast kingdom with limitless beauty shines even brighter than the sun against the horizon...but he...he's a nameless soldier born from despair. He lives on for a foolish reason, just one. He draws breath each day for only a single purpose. He is awakened from his sleep by a single idea...but it drives him. It causes him to face any feat without the slightest hesitation. It makes him more powerful than any foe, his sword sharper than any forged. It’s his only hope, and it came to him when he was a just a boy. Years ago, as a child, he found a secret. A secret that would tear that kingdom to the ground. A secret so dark, so menacing, that any who hear even a whisper vanish without a trace.
But the secret must be called something else. He’s decided that it will be a secret no more. He’s decided that his purpose outweighs the power of the secret.

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• Published on: 2014-02-14
• Released on: 2014-02-14
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Knights of the Wizard (of Knights and Wizards)

Knights of the Wizard (of Knights and Wizards)
A. J. Gallant (Author)

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“Best book I’ve read this year,” says the author.

Five barks said the author’s dog. Good boy.

(Includes a sneak peek of Moon Diamond)


In a magical land of knights, wizards and dragons …


Marcus, Stone, Alexa, Ryxa and Ash are back for another exciting adventure.

KNIGHTS OF THE WIZARD is the second novel in a multi-series of fantasy books Of Knights and Wizards; the first novel is Knights of the Dragon.

A young wizard is trying hard to become a respectable sorcerer but is failing miserably and casting spells while he sleepwalks complicates things even more. Will he really be banished from his own kingdom? Meanwhile a gray dragon awakens from a four hundred year nap and discovers that there is a new and powerful dragon wizard in existence and that he just might be a danger to him; he decides that Ash must be killed.

Marcus meets a beautiful young girl named Raina from another kingdom and she may be more than he can handle as things might be moving a little too fast but he’s almost immediately smitten by her beauty and charm.

The Dwagord have resided on the other side of the mountain range and have never been able to venture into Leeander’s part of the world. Their wizards have finally blown their way through the mountain and they are aggressive people that would like to conquer everyone and everything, but to the Dwagord this new land is as puzzling as it is fascinating with much more magic than exists in their homeland.


(A mystery) MOON DIAMOND (sneak peek)

Zacharia, an ancient friend of Dracula’s had an old Siamese cat named Moon Diamond that had lived beyond its lifespan but he loved it so much that he kept it alive with a piece of his soul. When Zacharia was killed something extraordinary happened, his soul went inside the cat and his spirit now shares control of the feline.

People are being murdered in New York and Zacharia becomes interested in the case, a nice diversion from being a cat; he wants to see if he can’t scratch up the killer, trying to get Dracula interested in the case as well. But they just might be taking on more than they can handle.

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• Published on: 2014-02-18
• Released on: 2014-02-18
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The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus (Focus Classical Library)

The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus (Focus Classical Library)
Sophocles (Author), Ruby Blondell (Editor)
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This anthology includes English translations of three plays of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous, and Oidipous at Colonus. The trilogy includes an introductory essay on Sophocles life, ancient theatre, and the mythic and religious background of the plays. Each of these plays is available from Focus in a single play edition. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

• Rank: #60844 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-01
• Original language: Greek
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.86" h x 5.98" w x .51" l, .76 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Euripides (Author), Philip Vellacott (Translator, Introduction)
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Euripides was a brilliant and powerful innovator within the traditional framework of Attic drama.

The last of the three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversial, Euripides was the first playwright to use the chorus as a commentator; the first to put contemporary language into the mouths of heroes; and the first to interpret human suffering without reference to the wisdom of gods.

The four plays in this volume all show Euripides to have been a man defiant of established beliefs, and preoccupied with the dichotomy between instinctive and civilized behaviour. And his daring interpretations of ancient myths are enhanced by his brilliance as a lyricist, for Euripides' choral odes are among the most beautiful ever written. Reading plays such as these, it is not difficult to appreciate Aristotle's admiration of him as the most 'tragic' of the Greek poets.

• Rank: #49407 in Books
• Published on: 1963-08-30
• Released on: 1963-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .51" h x 5.06" w x 7.78" l, .33 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 204 pages

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus

The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus
Aeschylus (Author), David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor)
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The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks.

For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions.

All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.

• Rank: #761861 in Books
• Published on: 1992-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.17" h x 6.34" w x 9.30" l, 1.44 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 358 pages

Sophocles, Volume I. Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus (Loeb Classical Library No. 20)

Sophocles, Volume I. Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus (Loeb Classical Library No. 20)
Sophocles (Author), Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Author)
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Sophocles (497/6–406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, courage, or intelligence exceeds the human norm—but who also has more than ordinary pride and self-assurance. These qualities combine to lead to a tragic end.

Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War).

Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The major fragments—ranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers—are collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.

• Rank: #493797 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Loeb Classical Library
• Published on: 1994-01-01
• Released on: 1994-01-31
• Original language: Ancient Greek
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.61" h x 4.57" w x .91" l, .70 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 496 pages

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The Highlands Trilogy: Highland Vengeance, Highland Grace, Highland Magic (The Maclean Family Saga / Adventure Romance)

The Highlands Trilogy: Highland Vengeance, Highland Grace, Highland Magic (The Maclean Family Saga / Adventure Romance)
K.E. Saxon (Author)

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The Highlands Trilogy by K.E. Saxon features one family saga; three medieval Highland warriors; and three scorching, passionate love stories, in an exciting blend of adventure, intrigue and romance. Highland Vengeance; Highland Grace; Highland Magic.

Highland Vengeance is Book One. Set in the turn of the thirteenth century Scottish Highlands, this is the story of Daniel MacLaurin, a handsome, rugged warrior-laird haunted by his past, and Maryn Donald, the beautiful, high-spirited lass destined to help him find his heart's ease.

Highland Grace is Book Two. It begins where HIGHLAND VENGEANCE ended, giving you Bao and Jesslyn’s story. When widow and devoted mother to a five-year-old, Jesslyn MacCreary, discovers her brief encounter with her laird’s long-lost brother has resulted in an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, she is thrust into matrimony with its exotically handsome, angry, and seemingly unwilling, father.

Highland Magic is Book Three. A trial by combat…A fight to the death…A test of the heart… It begins where HIGHLAND GRACE ended, giving you Branwenn and Callum’s story. After fleeing her wedding to her Norman betrothed and being swept into the Irish Sea during a storm, Branwenn Maclean finds herself once more in the land of the Highland Scots. Little does she know, however, that the maimed man who drops through the ceiling of her hiding place is none other than Callum MacGregor, the man who both vexes and beguiles her.

Coming Soon:
~ Robert MacVie’s Story ~
Now the rascal Highlands warrior knight from Highland Grace and Highland Magic has his own romance adventure!

• Rank: #158763 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-02-07
• Released on: 2014-02-07
• Format: Kindle eBook

Seneca: The Tragedies

Seneca: The Tragedies
Seneca (Author), David R. Slavitt (Translator)
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Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions—if so much of human history were not "Senecan" in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world—the Rome of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—and his art reflects the stress of the encounter. The surprise, perhaps, is that Seneca's world is so like our own.

• Rank: #655625 in Books
• Published on: 1995-12-01
• Original language: Latin
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.86" h x 5.79" w x .87" l, 1.07 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 261 pages