'Someday,' said the tribute-offering called Nofret, 'I shall be the chief of the queen's servants. Then I can call myself whatever I please. 'Nofret is the daughter of a Hittite nobleman, captured by enemies from Mitanni and sent as tribute to the Pharaoh in Egypt: the strange, otherworldly Akhenaten, who rules from his raw new city of Amarna. As servant to his daughter, she witnesses the rise and fall of Akhenaten and his one god, the lives and deaths...

"Embrace a journey through the pages of 'Pillar of Fire', a captivating literary fusion that combines the epic saga of human resilience found in the book of Exodus with the intricate tapestry of laws and values woven in Leviticus, all distilled into the evocative power of poetry.Unveil the extraordinary odyssey of a people seeking freedom, as they navigate trials, liberation, and transformation against the backdrop of ancient landscapes. Walk with...

Named after a Mormon saint, Moroni Traveler may be Salt Lake City's only gentile private eye that still maintains uneasy contact with the Church of Latter-day Saints. This case finds the former pro football player reluctantly accepting a charge from one of the church leaders to investigate the enigmatic, self-effacing faith healer Jason Thurgood. Traveler's commission takes him downwind of the old atomic testing sites to the desolate southwest corner...

In an age of intolerance, compassion can be dangerous. Pillar of Fire captures the stunning witness of the medieval mystics known as Beguines. Amid the intrigues of kings and knights, against a panorama of church corruption, Crusader campaigns, and Inquisition trials, these bold women broke all the rules. In this sweeping historical saga, young Clarissa flees from a forced marriage, befriends a colorful minstrel, and unravels the mystery of a midwife's...

The book starts with a background story of the author which explains what led him to his strange life- long hobby of "collecting religions". It then continues by building a systematic foundation to his Exodus theory. It starts with a closely related descriptions of North African history, geography, climate, the Africans, Egypt, and its powerful Nile in ancient times. The author then tells the story of his experiences in Africa, which led him to start...

A novel of outspoken protest, 'Pillar of Fire' is unique in the literature of modern Japan. First published in 1904, when Japan embarked enthusiastically on a 'just' war against Russia, it stands uncompromisingly for peace and reconciliation with the Russian people, pleads for social justice to mitigate the cruel conditions which existed in so many of Japan's newly developed industries, and lampoons the greed and immorality of the authoritarian Establishment...

Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From that point forward, Judah's life becomes a quest: a quest to survive...

Contains stories and novellas which were the precursors to, and show the evolution of, the full-length classic novel Fahrenheit 451