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Summary: April, CE 194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, has received a letter from Druscilla Livia, a widowed cousin of his wife, seeking his protection. She has received an offer of marriage from a powerful Roman Senator, Hortius Valens, a man of cruel and unusual tastes, and she is in no position to refuse. She has run away . . ....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRowe, Rosemary
Summary: Passing the villa of an absent Marcus Aurelius, Libertus comes upon a gruesome discovery, but even worse is the news that arrives from Rome, news which will turn the lives of the whole Empire upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRowe, Rosemary
Summary: Libertus is called upon to figure out from where ex-lictor to the Imperial Governor of Gaul Voluus' riches come, while Libertus is at the apartment of Voluu's, he hears that there was an attack on one of the ex-lictor's treasure carts, and to make matters worse, Libertus' actions are misinterpreted by spies, making him a suspect in the massacre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRowe, Rosemary
Summary: Libertus, a freeman sleuth, is called upon by his patron to investigate when Audelia, a vestal virgin who has retired after thirty years of service and is planning to marry in Glevum, disappears from the carriage in which she was expected to arrive, and his quest becomes even more urgent when a young girl destined for novitiation to the vestal ranks also vanishes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWRoss, Ian
Summary: "The epic first installment in a new series set at the end of empire in the reign of the Emperor Constantine, The War at the Edge of the World follows newly promoted centurion Aurelius Castus into the tumultuous battle for the future of Rome. Once a soldier in an elite legion from the Danube, now stuck in Britain's provincial backwater, Castus believes his glory days are over. But fate is about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Ross 2015Paxson, Diana L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAXIggulden, Conn.
Summary: "With an army made in his own image, Caesar begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain. Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus battle the armies of the wilderness, their politicial adversaries in Rome grow ever more powerful. For when the fighting is over, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGGRowe, Rosemary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWScott, Manda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOScott, Manda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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Summary: In the far reaches of the Roman Empire, there are three certainties in life for Doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso: death, taxes, and angry barbarians. The hero finds himself trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy involving theft, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of Boudica, the rebel queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWScott, Manda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCOScarrow, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCADownie, Ruth
Summary: Tending to the reluctant builders of Hadrian's Great Wall in the aftermath of a costly rebellion, the medicus Ruso and his wife, Tilla, investigate the disappearances of Ruso's clerk and the son of a native family, an effort that is complicated by rising tensions between the Britons and Romans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWBradley, Marion Zimmer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRABaxter, Stephen.
Summary: A first installment of a four-book alternate history epic traces the rise of a powerful family whose successes are linked to an ancient prophecy that guides their financial and political choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAXBradley, Marion Zimmer.
Summary: A love story during the Roman occupation of Britain in the 1st Century. The protagonists are a Druid girl in training to be a priestess, and a Roman officer pacifying her country. Love unites them, religion and politics separate them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRADownie, Ruth
Summary: The eighth gripping novel in the bestselling Medicus series, in which Ruso and Tilla investigate the death of the wife of Ruso's friend in the sacred hot spring of Aquae Sulis. A scandal is threatening to engulf the popular spa town of Aquae Sulis (modern-day Bath). The wife of Ruso's best friend, Valens, has been found dead in the sacred hot spring, stabbed through the heart. Fearing the wrath...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWDownie, Ruth
Summary: Resuming his medical duties in the Twentieth legion in Roman-occupied Britain, Gaius Petreius Ruso investigates an outbreak of mysterious injuries and deaths and discovers possible links to the revered Centurion Geminus and the long-awaited Emperor Hadrian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWRowe, Rosemary
Summary: This is a compelling new mystery for Libertus, set against the backdrop of the Roman Empire in turmoil ... An astonishing new order has usurped power in Rome and the reverberations are reaching even to Glevum, where the legion is preparing to depart. Libertus' wealthy patron, until recently one of the most influential men in the Empire, finds himself not only deprived of the privilege and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWScott, Walter
Summary: Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-the-Lion-Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman is defended by Ivanhoe against a charge of witchcraft--but it is Lady Rowena who is Ivanhoe's true love. The wicked Prince John plots to usurp England's throne, but two of the most popular heroes in all of English literature,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOSpringer, Nancy
Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018