In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.

A mouse and his child, the two parts of a single small wind-up toy, go on a quest to become "self-wi...

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed fa...

About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar...

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is follo...

Three Plebs join the army in peace-time, hoping to win respect, romance and military discounts at se...

Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Mu...

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the di...

Once upon a time... in the far away kingdom of Dor... lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comicall...

The beautiful wife of a geologist frantically searches for her missing husband and is haunted by a m...

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial...

The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the...

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, ...

Following her father's puzzling disappearance, Kate and her city-bred companions brave the untamed b...

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if sl...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influen...