When We Meet Again is a thoughtful exploration of what happens when two people who once loved each other find their way back into each other’s lives. It looks beyond the idea of simply rekindling romance, examining the memories, wounds, changes, and unanswered questions that make a second chance different from the first. This book offers a realistic and emotionally honest look at whether love can survive separation, grow through distance, and become something new when two people meet again...

Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph - detailing the brutal battles and political feuds that led to the collapse of Rome's 400-year-old republic, and Augustus' subsequent reign as emperor. Included are accounts of military campaigns from Ethiopia to Yugoslavia, and of long co...

Four hundred and seven small pages, over and above the Epistle Dedicatory, are contained in Volume One. Really, however, this is not the true Dio at all, but merely his shadow, seized and distorted to satisfy the ideas of his epitomizer, the monk Xiphilinus, who was separated from him by a thousand years in the flesh and another thousand in the spirit. Of the little specimens here and there translated for this man's or that man's convenience no mention need here be made. Hence, practically...

'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not be held.' Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last twenty years before the Roman Republic collapsed in a long series of civil wars, leading to the monarchy of the emperors. Although Dio's history was written over 250 years later, it provides the fullest surviving accou...

Primary Accounts of African Civilization: The Meroe, Kush, and Axum is a collection of accounts about African civilizations written by some of the oldest and most prominent historians of antiquity, including Herodotus, also known as the Father of History, who lived in the 5th century B.C. (c.484 BC c.425 BC) and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The collect...

Cassius Dio’s ‘Roman History’ in 80 Books spans the founding of Rome, the formation of the Republic, the creation of the Empire and charts the Romans' greatest achievements up until AD 229. Composed over 22 years, the monumental work provides modern readers with an intriguing perspective on Roman history. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the co...

An historical narrative originally composed in Greek during the reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. According to Wikipedia: "Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (c. AD 155 or 163/164[3] to after 229), known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, or Dio (Dione. lib) was a Roman consul and a noted historian writing in Greek. Dio published a history of Rome in 80 volumes, beginning with the legendary arrival of Aeneas in Italy through the su...

An historical narrative originally composed in Greek during the reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus. According to Wikipedia: "Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (c. AD 155 or 163/164[3] to after 229), known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio Cassius, or Dio (Dione. lib) was a Roman consul and a noted historian writing in Greek. Dio published a history of Rome in 80 volumes, beginning with the legendary arrival of Aeneas in Italy through the su...

Kieran Rourke has one job at Bellhollow College: get close to Tobias Kestrel, break him, and go home to a debt-free life. He was chosen for it because he's a scholarship kid nobody watches and because he's good at being needed. Tobias Kestrel has one problem: a dying father, a family that wants a different heir, and a roommate who's obviously a liar. He lets Kieran stay close anyway, because a liar you know about is better than a traitor you don't. Blackmail becomes partnership. Partnershi...

Nadia Rinaldi has been a courier for twelve years and has never opened a package. This one is warm, and she is tired, and she has always been curious about the one thing she isn't allowed to know. Inside is a wedding ring. She puts it on for four seconds. The house she was delivering it to opens its own door, and the family that has been waiting three generations for a wife starts counting. Don Salvatore Verga has spent thirty years keeping that ring out of reach, because every woman who h...

Ford Callis has worn the Iron Meridian cut for eighteen years and buried a brother for it. What he doesn't have is a paper trail.So when the club needs a clean face for the charity calendar and a bookkeeper who can make eleven years of bad math look like a small business, Ezra Nunez shows up with a repossessed Honda and a sister in the wrong kind of debt.Ninety days. A rented smile. A spare room with a lock on it.Then Ezra finds a payment that shouldn't exist, his s...

Eight hundred and seventeen years since its last received transmission. A deep-space probe — built to observe, measure, and report — is still broadcasting into silence. It has no evidence that anyone is listening. It broadcasts anyway.Then it finds ruins. An entire civilization, gone. Not destroyed by war or collision but by something in their own atmosphere, slow and invisible, ticking down across millennia while they built cities and wrote philosophies and never noticed the clock...