The Fall of Reach YAY HALO!!!

wicked even though i like some of gregory maguire other books better this is his most well known

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield It is a GREAT book. Synopsis Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father's antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and she wants Margaret to be the one to capture her history. The request takes Margaret by surprise–she doesn’t know the author, nor has she read any of Miss Winter’s dozens of novels. Late one night, while pondering whether to accept the task of recording Miss Winter’s personal story, Margaret begins to read her father’s rare copy of Miss Winter’s Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation. She is spellbound by the stories and confused when she realizes the book only contains twelve stories. Where is the thirteenth tale? Intrigued, Margaret agrees to meet Miss Winter and act as her biographer. As Vida Winter unfolds her story, she shares with Margaret the dark family secrets that she has long kept hidden as she remembers her days at Angelfield, the now burnt-out estate that was her childhood home. Margaret carefully records Miss Winter’s account and finds herself more and more deeply immersed in the strange and troubling story. In the end, both women have to confront their pasts and the weight of family secrets. As well as the ghosts that haunt them still.

The history between the Hittites and the Egyptians with the epic battle they fought at Carchemish. I bet they could make it as thrilling as Troy or 300 were. Map can be enlarged. http://www.specialtyinterests.net/comparison.html

Colleen McCullough's "First Man in Rome" fantastic book on the years leading up to Caesar's birth.

House of Scoripo by Pat Wallace

Foundation - by Isaac Asimov If it was a success there are two more in the series. or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - by Robert Heinlein though I think if would do better as a mini-series

A little more of a docudrama than "Rome". I really like "Rome", but would want something a little more tied to the known history.

The Glass Castle- great book... I think its still on the best-sellers list... I really like the twisted stories though.

The Glass Castle- great book... I think its still on the best-sellers list... I really like the twisted stories though.