Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress BOTY_2025 where families thrived through ingenuity

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Happy Endings author Thien-Kim Lam is back—with a rom-com set during the divine madness of Mardi Gras as two lovers ask: Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing

surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award-winning author—at last back in print

hoping to find peace under the wings of the Church

and London life have Mar and Joan on another adventure-filled romp-this time across the pond

Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress BOTY_2025 where families thrived through ingenuityThe astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390 450) provides valuable reflections on the state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two brothers, Arcadius (395 408) and Honorius (395 423), and nephew, Theodosius II (408 450), hardly ever ventured beyond the fortified enclosure of their palaces, Galla spent years wandering across Italy, Gaul and Spain first as hostage in the camp of Alaric the Goth, and