Fantasy
The Confederate General Rides North
Eleven-year-old Katherine McConnell is obsessed with the Civil War, particularly the Confederate side. She frequently daydreams about being a Confederate…
Ice Land
Iceland, at the dawn of a new millennium. King Olaf’s Christian missionaries are attempting to convert the fiercely independent landholders…
Grandville
This is a sumptuously illustrated graphic novel, by an author-artist who received wide acclaim for his 2007 book Alice in…
Wolfbreed
In 13th-century Eastern Europe, a place of dark forests and darker mysteries, a young man named Udolf finds a strange…
Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim
This is historical fiction split between 13th-century England and 21st-century America. Anne Rice, known for her Vampire Chronicles and her…
Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter
This purports to be the story of Queen Victoria’s reign and historically it is reasonably well told but is so…
Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit
To reconcile the confusion in historical sources, Mercedes Lackey gives King Arthur three wives—all named Gwen. The third and last…
The Demon Redcoat
In this third book in the Traitor to the Crown series, Proctor Brown is still fighting the Covenant, the slippery…
Alcestis
Those familiar with Greek mythology may recall Alcestis as the symbol of an ideal wife, a woman who so loved…
The Wise Woman’s Tale
During the Great War, life in London was thought not as safe as the countryside. But as Kate Barnes…
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