The Neverending Empire: The Infinite Impact of Ancient RomeFrom the international bestselling author and notable journalist Aldo Cazzullo comes a brilliantly researched and extremely accessible journey through the history and legacy of the Roman Empire. The only way to narrate over a thousand years of history is to understand what it has left us. To tell the reasons, the things and the stories, thanks to which Roman civilization is alive. From its mythical foundations and epic construction to its enduring

but then his father arrives on her doorstep

In this thought-provoking

class-adjusted My So-Called Life” (Publishers Weekly)

which means three days of sun and sand

Harish finds the anchor his life needs in a chance encounter with members of the ancient - and threatened - Jarawa community: the 'original people' of the Andaman Islands and its tropical rainforests

• Rice and Noodles

it marks Hemingway’s passage from boyish writer to accomplished author: nothing big came before it

Friendship Cake

political disenchantment

and in his arms

the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman

Momaday’s connection to his Kiowa roots