Fantasy
Promise of the Wolves
Promise of the Wolves Fourteen thousand years ago, a wolf cub named Kaala, born out of pack-lock, is spared the…
The Glass Word
This third volume of Meyer’s Dark Reflections fantasy trilogy takes place in an alternate universe where the Egyptian Empire,…
Bewitching Season
Editors' choice
This delightful debut by Marissa Doyle bodes well for her career as a writer of young adult novels. Set…
The Third Circle
In Leona Hewitt’s desperation to get back the aurora stone, a crystal that was stolen from her mother, she dresses…
Black Ships
With his epic poem The Aeneid, Virgil established a mythological link between ancient Greece and Rome through Aeneas, a…
The Last Bear
Editors' choice
Brigid is the last in a long line of medicine women; she lives alone in the forest since she has…
Theft of Shadows
Gabriel d’Aubrigny, Chevalier de Lesgardes, finds himself returning to England after living through the years of the Revolution in France,…
Song of the North
Roman Britannia, AD 366. Minna, a servant girl of mixed Roman and British blood, feels out of place and discontented…
Deep Magic
Set in Britain in AD 132, the second book in Nash’s Druids of Avalon series describes the struggle of a…
The Secret War
At the risk of laying myself open to accusations of gender bias, let me say right away, The Secret War…
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