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Octavian, nineteen and newly orphaned by Julius Caesar’s murder, becomes the heir to Rome and begins the fight to remake the republic into an empire.Set in ancient Rome from 44 B.C. to A.D. 14, Augustus follows Octavian as he becomes Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor.After the murder of Julius Caesar, Augustus moves through power struggles, bloody wars, and family strife as Rome is transformed.Building on impeccable research and vivid charact...

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full ...

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pas...

'It's the most marvellous discovery for everyone who loves literature' Ian McEwan, BBC Radio 4Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the wide and devoted readership it deser...

**NOW A MAJOR FILM**BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find them. Will makes up his mind to be one of thos...

On May 10, 1869, the Golden Spike linked the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah. The dream of a railroad across America had at last come true. This book tells the story of swaggering men with big plans, of an America emerging from the Civil War and reaching its manifest destiny. The men who imagined the transcontinental railroad were impassioned profiteers, an unlikely, often ruthless band, guilty of both financial double-dealing and ferociou...

The first ever biography of Lionel Sharpe, the man who fought for the separation of powers, the rule of law and the supremacy of parliament. It is sometimes brutal, sometimes artistic, sometimes lewd, sometimes poetical and somewhat political. It explores literary form and challenges social mores. We meet with joy, passion, love and laughter; we also encounter hate and sexual loathing and infinite loneliness. We twist the mother lode, scoop deeper and deeper into a mine of despair and fini...

In The Bulldog, you will learn all the main aspects of properly raising and caring for your Bulldog. The book covers the origin of this breed and the proper way to train this beautiful dog. You will learn about the Bulldog's temperament, its important history and the maintenance and training your dog will need. This book teaches you how to avoid mistakes in it's training due to not understanding the Bulldog breed. Finally, many breeds have their own ailments and the Bulldog is no different...

Sam Houston was one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. During his life, he held an astonishing range of positions: governor of two states (Tennessee and Texas), congressman (Tennessee), senator (Texas), and president of the Republic of Texas during its independence. He was an ardent expansionist who helped make Manifest Destiny a reality, and more than any other individual, he was responsible for Texas's entry into the United States. But Houston was a complex man whose ...

WARNING:DO NOT READ THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU ARE READY FOR AN AMAZING FIRST HAND INSIGHT INTO YOUR LIFEWhat would it be like to start seeing through the fabric of all things that you have been told in your life?Your life knowledge can only become useful if you know how to use it correctly. About %80 precent of the population already spend their life just to find out something is missing. it is their hopes and dreams. If you sti...

Arthur Maxley is young, tense and adrift. A letter from his estranged father unsettles the fragile order of his day, drawing him toward a meeting he both fears and cannot refuse.After lunch, a charged dinner and a night of drinking, Arthur drifts into a nightclub and then into the company of Claire Hegsic. What begins as the possibility of intimacy becomes overtaken by old terror. Fragmented memories of childhood trauma surface with terrible force, and the night ri...

Red Men Reborn takes a unique look at the entire history and socio-cultural significance of Liverpool FC, from the club's foundation in 1892 to the present day. John Williams skilfully weaves his narrative around the great managers - from Tom Watson to Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley and Kenny Dalglish, Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez, then finally the current epic era of Jü rgen Klopp. The book shines a spotlight on the post-2010 period when the club was faced with an ownership crisis and poss...