When the Crown Prince of Egypt needs a wife, the beautiful, charismatic, ambitious and connected Nefertiti is his mother's first choice. She quickly becomes accustomed to the opulence of her new life. As Queen of the world's first great empire at the height of its power, all her dreams are realised. Beguiling and wilful, Nefertiti is soon as powerful as the Pharaoh himself. But when her husband breaks with a thousand years of tradition, defying the priests and the military, it will take all Nefertiti's wiles to keep the nation from being torn apart. Watching from the shadows, her sister,…
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered,a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode.
Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch together take on a seemingly unwinnable case in blistering legal thriller from Number One bestseller Michael Connelly.
When defence lawyer Mickey Haller is invited by the Los Angeles County District Attorney to prosecute a case for him, he knows something strange is going on. Mickey's one of the best American legal brains in the business, and to switch sides likes this would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed…
Just over two thousand years ago, Cleopatra VII Philopator, Queen of Egypt, made her final act of defiance against a captor who wished to parade her through the streets of Rome. History remembers her for this dramatic end and her romantic entanglements with Rome's elite.
But who was Cleopatra, really?
At twelve, she escaped an Alexandrian mob and fled to Rome with her father. At seventeen, she inherited a kingdom in near ruins. By twenty-one, she had outmaneuvered every adversary and claimed Egypt's throne. For over two decades, she deftly navigated intricate politics and countered Roman influence, building a legacy as a formidable queen, before her fateful end.
Cleopatra was far more than a seductress; a descendant of one of Alexander the Great's generals, she was an ambitious woman, an astute strategist, a ruthless queen, a devoted mother, and an intelligent polyglot.
Regent is the first book in the Last Pharaoh Trilogy and takes readers on a journey with the enigmatic queen.
