Have fun helping your child learn the letters of the alphabet with this Florida alphabet book. This book introduces young readers to the shapes and sounds of the letters of the alphabet in a fun jaunt through the Sunshine State. In ABC Florida, children will build their vocabulary and learn about Florida s state bird, animals, foods, and landmarks. A friendly ducky guides children through the book, hiding somewhere on each page. With sturdy pages and rounded corners, ABC Florida is durable...

379 AD: Thracia has fallen to the Gothic horde...With the ashes of Adrianople still swirling in the air, the Eastern Roman Empire is in turmoil. The emperor is dead, the throne lies empty and the remaining fragments of the army are few and scattered. Numerius Vitellius Pavo, now Tribunus of the XI Claudia, tries to hold his patchwork ranks together amidst the storm. One of the few legions to have survived the disaster at Adrianople, the Claudia do what they can to keep alive the dy...

377 AD: When Optio Numerius Vitellius Pavo and a select group of the XI Claudia are summoned to the Persian front, they leave Thracia behind, knowing little of what awaits them. They know only that they are to march into a burning land of strange gods. They whisper tales of the mighty Persian Savaran cavalry and pray to Mithras they will see their homes and families again. All too soon it becomes clear to them that this is no ordinary mission - indeed, the very fate of the empire might res...

This deceptively simple bedtime book helps your child understand the environments of Chesapeake Bay. As children say goodnight to the animals that call the bay home, they form lasting connections to the real-world environments and ecosystems around them. Even the most reluctant sleeper can’t resist the lyrical sentences and soothing illustrations. Sure to become your child’s favorite bedtime story, Sweet Dreams Chesapeake Bay travels through the world’s largest estuary throughout ...

Have fun helping your child learn the letters of the alphabet with this Indiana alphabet book. This book introduces young readers to the shapes and sounds of the letters of the alphabet in a fun jaunt through the Crossroads of America. In ABC Indiana, children will build their vocabulary and learn about Indiana's state bird, tree, flower, and landmarks. A friendly ducky guides children through the book, hiding somewhere on each spread. With sturdy pages and rounded corners, ABC Indiana is ...

Have fun helping your child learn the letters of the alphabet with this Kentucky alphabet book. This book introduces young readers to the shapes and sounds of the letters of the alphabet in a fun jaunt through America’s Blue Grass State. In ABC Kentucky, children will build their vocabulary and learn about Kentucky’s state bird, animals, foods, attractions, and landmarks. A friendly ducky guides children through the book, hiding somewhere on each page. With sturdy pages and rounded corners...

This deceptively simple bedtime book helps your child understand the people and places that make up the city of Chicago. As children say goodnight to the animals that call the city home, they form lasting connections to the real-world environments and ecosystems around them. Even the most reluctant sleeper can't resist the lyrical sentences and soothing illustrations. Sure to become your child's favorite bedtime story, Sweet Dreams Chicago travels through the Windy City throughout...

The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east....376 AD: The Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defenses to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in Constantinople, a pact between faith and politics spawns a lethal plot that will bring the dark and massive hordes from the east crashing down on these struggling borders. The fates conspire to see Num...

A tale of adventure and military brotherhood in the legions of RomeThe fate of the East rests on the edge of a sword as the legions and the Goths march to war…378 AD: Fritigern’s Gothic horde tightens its iron grip on Thracia and only a handful of well-walled cities to the south remain in imperial hands. The few tattered legions pinned in these cities can only watch on from the battlements as smoke rises across their lost lands and the Goths roam at will, pillaging and exto...

Deep winter, 376 AD: Emperor Valens has withdrawn the field armies from Moesia and Thracia to fight in the Persian War. The impoverished limitanei legions left behind to defend the banks of the River Danubius are now all that stand between the war-hungry Goths and heart of the Eastern Roman Empire. For Numerius Vitellius Pavo and the men of the XI Claudia, the brief from Emperor Valens is simple: to avoid war with the Goths at all costs. But in the frozen lands north of the Danubius a dark...

381 AD: The Gothic War draws to a brutal climax, and the victor's name will be written in blood...The great struggle between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Gothic Horde rumbles into its fifth year. It seems that there can be no end to the conflict, for although the Goths are masters of the land, they cannot topple the last of the imperial cities. But heralds bring news that might change it all: Emperor Gratian readies to lead his Western legions into the fray, to turn matters on ...

The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east....376 AD: The Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defenses to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in Constantinople, a pact between faith and politics spawns a lethal plot that will bring the dark and massive hordes from the east crashing down on these struggling borders. The fates conspire to see Num...