Three decades after her grandmother's suicide, the discovery of her secret journal led Diana M. Raab reflect on her own life, her grandmother's history, and how that beloved woman's love is with her still in Regina's Closet.
Take a fresh look at what we know with historical fiction. Spanning a thousand years and following the shifting fortunes of two families through the ages, Roma is Steven Saylor's epic saga of Rome, the city and its people. A historian and cryptographer is caught up in a web of deadly international intrigue to try to decipher one of history's greatest enigmas - the true identity of Christopher Columbus - in Jose Rodrigues Dos Santos's Codex 632. An unrecorded Spartan hero is unveiled in Andrew Feder's novel of Ancient Greece, The Heretic.
After questioning his bizarre dreams and an unexplained sudden knowledge of ancient Greek, Jerry Fletcher seeks the help of a psychic who suggests that he undergo past life regression. Jerry begins remembering his past lives –a Jew during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, a young Arapaho brave, a knight during the Middle Ages – until he stops in Ancient Greece with Aias, a Spartan renowned in his time as the world’s greatest warrior but whose name went unrecorded in history.
Alexander the Great often compared Aias to Illiad’s Hector and Achilles.
Ptlomey thought that Aias was perhaps a God reincarnate from Olympus.
Alexander called him Aries incarnate.
His enemies called him Aias the Decapitator.
Aristotle called him The Heretic.
And the women of Greece called him … well, you’ll have to read the book to find out.
A story of romance and violence, adventure and spirituality, Andrew
Feder's The Heretic unveils a new legend at home with the classics.