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Once upon a time, in a whimsical town nestled between the pages of enchanted books, there stood a marvel known to all as Fairy Tale Books.This charming bookstore held secrets untold and mysteries unexplored. The proprietors, Sir Ronnie and Lady Wendy, sought to do more than merely sell books. They dreamed of building a community, a place of welcoming whispers, ancient tales, newfound discoveries, and thrilling exploits.One fateful evening, while dragons, drones, and spacesh...

"Professor James Darmesteter's little book on 'The Mahdi,'...traces the growth of the idea and then deals in succession with the Mahdi of Persia, Africa, Turkey, Egypt, and the Soudan....translated by Miss Ada S. Ballin." -The Times (London), Sept. 22, 1885"One of the most interesting studies of the central figure in the great drama of the Soudan that we have yet seen." -Pall Mall Gazette"The comparative theologian will find much to ponder over in th...

The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich is a twelfth-century Latin hagiography that presents the death of a young Norwich apprentice, William, as martyrdom and records miracles attributed to his cult. Written in the conventions of saints' lives—vita, passion narrative, and miracle collection—it combines devotional rhetoric with investigative claims. Its literary and historical significance is inseparable from its role in shaping one of medieval Europe's earliest blood-libel narrati...

"The second full cast audiobook of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity!In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. ...

In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have journeyed to the lands of the middle east, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. Yet it was never a one way exchange. From the first Arab embassy to the Vikings in the 9th century to the internet musings of the Taliban, A Middle East Mosaic collects a rich, boisterous literature of cultural exchange.We see the American Revolution through the ey...

Saladin, one of the most prominent figure of the time of the Crusades, was a great muslim leader, respected and praised even by his Crusader foes.

SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST HORRORS COME IN THE SMALLEST PACKAGES…There's nothing better than a short, sharp slice of flash fiction to get the mind working. 99 Tiny Terrors is an anthology that the reader can dip into for something deliciously dangerous in a short amount of time, or spend an afternoon trolling through blood-soaked stories from all over the world, including Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Sta...

James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to professor, and was the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States. In 1919 he became ...

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find:* Overworked fairies distributing swords.* Alien yeti slackers* Elf bakers* Absconded books* Superhero dance battles* Matchmakers ... in spaaace!This anthology contains the following stories:"The Hero of Small Things" by Amanda Sav...

The History of Ancient Egypt offers a sweeping synthesis of one of antiquity's most enduring civilizations, bringing together political narrative, cultural analysis, and antiquarian scholarship in a form accessible to serious readers. Its range extends from dynastic chronology and imperial expansion to religion, architecture, burial customs, and the deciphered record of monuments and inscriptions. In tracing temples, pyramids, priesthoods, and pharaohs, the volume situates Egypt within the...

The November/December 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Ken Liu, Hal Y. Zhang, Brit E.B. Hvide, Martha Wells, Lee Mandelo, and John Wiswell. Reprint fiction by Maurice Broaddus. Essays by Meghan Ball, Meg Elison, Michi Trota, and K.A. Doore, poetry by Jane Yolen, Peter Tacy, Brandon O'Brien, Valerie Valdes, and Jennifer Crow, interviews with Ken Liu and Lee Mandelo by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and editorials by L...

IN the period upon which we are about to enter, the peoples of south-west Asia, Egypt and south-east Europe were brought Into very close contact one with another. Peaceful trading-journeys, ambitious wars by land and by sea, and some sweeping ethnical movements, which had the profoundest consequences for history, made the area virtually one interconnected whole. The history of no portion of this whole can properly be viewed quite apart from the rest, although naturally it will be necessary...