wyszukanych pozycji: 24
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The Throne of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9781250209030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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93,98 zł |
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Catilina's Riddle
ISBN: 9781849016094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 63BC - Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves his dream of a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Leaving behind the corruption and intrigue of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. But Gordianus' longtime patron, Cicero, has achieved a much coveted consulship and requests a favour of Gordianus.
63BC - Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves his dream of a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Leaving behind the corruption and intrigue of Rome,...
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56,62 zł |
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The House of the Vestals: The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder
ISBN: 9780312582418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is Ancient Rome, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble. Known to many as the one man in the ancient world who can both keep a secret and uncover one, Gordianus lays bare some of his most intriguing and compelling adventures. It is Ancient Rome, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble. Known to many as the one man in the ancient world who can both keep a... |
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81,15 zł |
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Empire: A sweeping epic saga of Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9781849016025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In the bestseller 'Roma', Steven Saylor told the story of the first 1,000 years of Rome by following the descendants of a single bloodline. Now, in 'Empire', Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the Pinarius family, from the reign of the first emperor, Augustus, to the glorious height of Rome's empire under Hadrian.
In the bestseller 'Roma', Steven Saylor told the story of the first 1,000 years of Rome by following the descendants of a single bloodline. Now, in 'E...
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56,62 zł |
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Last Seen in Massilia: A Novel of Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9780312582432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the city of Massilia (modern-day Marseille), on the coast of Southern Gaul, Gordianus the Finder's beloved son Meto has disappeared--branded as a traitor to Caesar and apparently dead. Consumed with grief, Gordianus arrives in the city in the midst of a raging civil war, hoping to discover what happened to his son. But when he witnesses the fall of a young woman from a precipice called Sacrifice Rock, he becomes entangled in discovering the truth--did she fall or was she pushed? And where, in all of this, could it be connected to his missing son? Drawn into the city's treacherous... In the city of Massilia (modern-day Marseille), on the coast of Southern Gaul, Gordianus the Finder's beloved son Meto has disappeared--branded as ... |
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81,15 zł |
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The Venus Throw: A Mystery of Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9780312539672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., two strange visitors to Rome - an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest - seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give - help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he will be murdered. Now Gordianus begins his most dangerous case. Hired to investigate Dio's death by a beautiful woman with a scandalous reputation, he will follow a trail of political intrigue into the highest circles of power and the city's most hidden... On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., two strange visitors to Rome - an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest - seek out Gordianus the Finder wh... |
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98,25 zł |
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Roman Blood
ISBN: 9781849016056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Gordianus the Finder, an eccentric, philosophical investigator, is hired by the young Cicero to acquit or convict a man accused of murdering his own father - an ugly, delicate case that soon produces dangerous fireworks.
Gordianus the Finder, an eccentric, philosophical investigator, is hired by the young Cicero to acquit or convict a man accused of murdering his own f...
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51,46 zł |
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Triumph of Caesar: A Novel of Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9780312556990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion - Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome's legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. Appointed by the Senate as Dictator, the city abounds with rumors asserting that Caesar wishes to be made King - the first such that Rome has had in centuries. And that not all of his opposition has been crushed. Gordianus, recently returned from Egypt with his wife Bethesda, is essentially retired from his previous profession of 'Finder' but even he cannot... The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion - Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome's legions), ... |
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81,15 zł |
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Raiders Of The Nile
ISBN: 9781472101976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Gordianus is now twenty-two years old and living in Alexandria with Bethesda, scraping by in modest and haphazard fashion. But then Bethesda is kidnapped by mistake. With few resources available to him, Gordianus has to find the people who kidnapped her and get her back - before they realise they have the wrong woman and dispose of her for good. A raid on the golden tomb of Alexander the Great, a semi-shady troupe of travelling performers, highwaymen, amorous innkeepers, the politics of the pharaohs, smugglers, camels and an adventure up the Nile all combine to make this a rescue mission...
Gordianus is now twenty-two years old and living in Alexandria with Bethesda, scraping by in modest and haphazard fashion. But then Bethesda is kidnap...
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51,46 zł |
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Rubicon
ISBN: 9780312582425 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As Caesar marches on Rome and panic erupts in the city, Gordianus the Finder discovers, in his own home, the body of Pompey's favorite cousin. Before fleeing the city, Pompey exacts a terrible bargain from the finder of secrets-to unearth the killer, or sacrifice his own son-in-law to service in Pompey's legions, and certain death. Amid the city's sordid underbelly, Gordianus learns that the murdered man was a dangerous spy. Now, as he follows a trail of intrigue, betrayal, and ferocious battles on land and sea, the Finder is caught between the chaos of war and the terrible truth he must... As Caesar marches on Rome and panic erupts in the city, Gordianus the Finder discovers, in his own home, the body of Pompey's favorite cousin. Befo... |
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98,25 zł |
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Roma
ISBN: 9781849016049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'Roma' is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the most extensive, powerful empire in the ancient world.
'Roma' is the story of the ancient city of Rome, from its mythic beginnings as a campsite along a trade route to its emergence as the centre of the mo...
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56,62 zł |
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Judgment of Caesar
ISBN: 9780312582456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gordianus the Finder and his ailing wife Bethesda travel to Egypt - Bethesda's homeland - seeking a cure for her enduring, mysterious illness. They arrive as the Civil War between Caesar and Pompey is reaching its conclusion on its shores. Captured by Pompey, but rescued by Ptolemy's men who kill Pompey for Caesar, Gordianus is caught in the middle of the struggle between Ptolemy and his sister Cleopatra, Caesar's seduction by Cleopatra, and the dying days of the Roman Republic. When his wife disappears into the Nile, never to resurface, Gordianus must uncover the truth behind a series of... Gordianus the Finder and his ailing wife Bethesda travel to Egypt - Bethesda's homeland - seeking a cure for her enduring, mysterious illness. They... |
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81,15 zł |
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A Murder on the Appian Way
ISBN: 9780312539689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Torchlight flickers on the elegant marble walls. The sound of a mob echoes in the street. The year is 52 B.C. and the naked body of Publius Clodius is about to be carried through the teaming streets of Rome. Clodius, a rich man turned rabble-rouser, was slain on the most splendid road in the world, the Appian Way. Now Clodius's rival, Milo, is being targeted for revenge and the city teeters on the verge of chaos. An explosive trial will feature the best oration of Cicero and Marc Antony, while Gordianus the Finder has been charged by Pompey the Great himself to look further into the... Torchlight flickers on the elegant marble walls. The sound of a mob echoes in the street. The year is 52 B.C. and the naked body of Publius Clodius... |
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115,34 zł |
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Dominus: A Novel of the Roman Empire
ISBN: 9781250087867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,43 zł |
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Empire: The Novel of Imperial Rome
ISBN: 9780312610807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling " --USA Today on Roma "May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...... |
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115,34 zł |
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Arms of Nemesis
ISBN: 9780312383237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta. The murdered man was the overseer of Marcus Crassus's estate, apparently killed by two runaway slaves bent on joining Spartacus's revolt. In response to the murder, the wealthy, powerful Crassus vows to honor an ancient law and kill his ninety-nine remaining slaves in three days. Now Gordianus the Finder has been summoned from Rome by a mysterious client to find out the truth about the murder before the three days are up.... The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, th... |
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85,43 zł |
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Dominus: An epic saga of Rome, from the height of its glory to its destruction
ISBN: 9781472123657 / Twarda / 2021 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The epic conclusion to the best-selling Roma series.
The epic conclusion to the best-selling Roma series.
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97,82 zł |
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A Mist of Prophecies
ISBN: 9780312582449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the year 48 B.C., Rome is in the midst of Civil War. As Pompey and Caesar fight for control of the Republic, Rome becomes a hotbed of intrigue, driven by espionage, greed and betrayals. A beautiful young seeress staggers across the Roman marketplace and dies in the arms of Gordianus the Finder. Possibly mad and claiming no memory of her past, Cassandra-- like her Trojan namesake--was reputed to have the gift of prophecy, a gift many in Rome would pay for handsomely...or resort to murder. Obsessed with Cassandra's mystery, Gordianus investigates her murder. As he peels away... In the year 48 B.C., Rome is in the midst of Civil War. As Pompey and Caesar fight for control of the Republic, Rome becomes a hotbed of intrigue, ... |
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98,25 zł |
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Roman Blood
ISBN: 9780312383244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the unseasonable heat of a spring morning in 80 B.C., Gordianus the Finder is summoned to the house of Cicero, a young advocate staking his reputation on a case involving the savage murder of the wealthy, sybaritic Sextus Roscius. Charged with the murder is Sextus's son, greed being the apparent motive. The punishment, rooted deep in Roman tradition, is horrific beyond imagining. The case becomes a political nightmare when Gordianus's investigation takes him through the city's raucous, pungent streets and deep into rural Umbria. Now, one man's fate may threaten the very leaders... In the unseasonable heat of a spring morning in 80 B.C., Gordianus the Finder is summoned to the house of Cicero, a young advocate staking his repu... |
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98,25 zł |
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Seven Wonders
ISBN: 9781250021601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The year is 92 B.C. Gordianus has just turned eighteen and is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Gordianus is not yet called "the Finder"--but at each of the Seven Wonders, the wide-eyed young Roman encounters a mystery to challenge the powers of deduction. Accompanying Gordianus on his travels is his tutor, Antipater of Sidon, the world's most celebrated poet. But there is more to the apparently harmless old poet than meets the eye. Before they leave home, Antipater fakes his own death and travels under an... The year is 92 B.C. Gordianus has just turned eighteen and is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven ... |
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81,15 zł |