![]() ![]() When they arrived, Ruso found out that the regular medic was ill, so the fort Prefect assigned Ruso to fill in, and while he was at it, to get the infirmary in shape. She also claimed it was a beautiful area. ![]() Tilla came from the region around Ulucium and she wanted to visit her home. Ruso was persuaded to go in part because he was frustrated with his assignments in Deva, and in part because of his girlfriend, the former slave Tilla. “There’s a couple of centuries going up to help revamp the fort, fix their plumbing, and encourage the taxpayers.” ![]() Ruso explained to his best friend and colleague Valens: Hapless Roman Army medic Gaius Petreius Ruso has volunteered to leave his post in Deva, where he has served the past eight months, and travel with a contingent of the army to the northern borders of Roman Britannia to a fort at Ulucium. This is the second installment of a historical crime fiction series set in the Ancient Roman Empire. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.Īlternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a stunning and heartbreaking novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love. ![]() In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. It is a heart-rending story about what it means. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. 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Evvy’s family owns a profitable plantation that includes a reputable academy for boys and a smaller school for girls. She learns that she will be stifled by more than her corset. On her 14th birthday, Evvy, the oldest of five sisters, must begin the life of a woman. Less about the Civil War and more about the plight of slaves and the societal constraints placed on women, this is an eventful family saga. ![]() |