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|  | | Alexander's Lighthouse In 92 AD Alexandria Egypt is the unchallenged pinnacle of intellectual achievement. A melting pot of Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, and Romans, it frequently boils over into violence. Marco, a young man from Corinth, is caught between the Romans and the Free Egypt rebel forces when he helps invent the most powerful weapon in the world. The rebels obtain it and threaten to overthrow the hated Roman occupiers.
span id="projectSummaryDescriptionContent" class="projectSummaryDescription">In 92 AD, the imperial city of Rome rules Western civilization, but the city of Alexandria Egypt is the unchallenged pinnacle of Western intellectual achievement. Its prestigious Museum and Library are magnets that draw the world’s most important philosophers, mathematicians, astronomers, physicians and geographers. Alexandria also draws a young man named Marco from Corinth, who joins a small team of brilliant engineers working on secret projects. Titus, the Roman Prefect of Egypt, knew Marco’s father | |  | | Missing Star Danny Parker, a pilot wounded in the Great War, returns home hoping to reconcile with his former girlfriend, a silent movie star, but she has disappeared.
Danny Parker, a pilot wounded in the Great War, returns home to Long Beach, California, hoping to reconcile with his former girlfriend, who is now a silent movie star. But Joyce has disappeared.
As Danny searches for Joyce, clues lead him to the stunt pilot who taught him to fly, an old priest scarred by the Indian Wars, a police chief who prefers justice to politics, a big tent evangelist who preaches women's rights, and a Barnum & Bailey showman who owns hundreds of Nickelodeon theaters and is running for mayor of Los Angeles.
In 1919 Southern California is boomi | |  | | Nero's Concert Emperor Nero orders his closest friend Rusticus to find out who started the Great Fire, intending to blame the Christians. But Rusticus finds the evidence leads back to Nero.
p style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0pt 0in" class="MsoNormal">span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"">font size="3">In 64 AD, the heart of st1:place w:st="on">st1:city w:st="on">Rome/st1:city>/st1:place> burned to the ground while Emperor Nero famously performed a concert.span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>For 2,000 years, historians have accused him of setting the fire himself and making Christians the scapegoats.span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>To punish them, he embarked on a persecution that was to last for three centuries.span style="mso-spacerun: y | |  | | The Red Turtle Project The daughter of an Asian gangster inherits his fortune when rivals murder him. They then come after her but she invests the money in Vietnam in a secret plot to convert the country to capitalism.
p style="margin-right: 24pt; tab-stops: 6.25in">font size="2">The Red Turtle Project is an international thriller set primarily in Vietnam in the 1990´s. Liang Weber is a beautiful Eurasian woman who inherits $500 million from her recently murdered father, Sing Han, a Singapore billionaire whose fortune is based on smuggling weapons and drugs. /font>
p style="margin-right: 24pt; tab-stops: 6.25in">font size="2">She and her husband Sam learn that Sing Han has been assassinated by a ruthless secret society called the Mandarins. Led by a group of seven Chinese tycoons, the Mandari | |  | | The Whiplash Hypothesis A very wealthy Asian gangster plans to destroy the US economy by manipulating global oil prices. Only his daughter and her husband stand in his way.
p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">span style="font-size: 10pt">In the 1970’s the world experienced two oil shocks, as the price of oil rose from less than $2 a barrel to over $32. Early in 1986, in a three-month period, oil plummeted from $28 down to only $10.span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> /span>These violent fluctuations significantly altered the economies of virtually every nation on earth. When oil prices went up, they caused unprecedented inflation in the st1:country-region w:st="on">st1:place w:st="on">United States/st1:place>/st1:country-region> and cha |
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