Fantasy
Greek Beasts and Heroes: The Silver Chariot
This is the seventh in the series, keeping the same format as before. The reader is told the story of…
A Most Improper Magic
A lively, fast-moving story with a high-spirited, adventurous heroine makes Stephanie Burgis’s book historical fiction’s answer to the ever-popular chick…
Black Hills
The story begins in 1876 when General George Armstrong Custer is killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Paha…
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword of Avalon
The popularity of The Mists of Avalon (1982) by Marion Zimmer Bradley generated a series that has outlasted the author’s…
Descent into Dust
Scarlett O’Hara becomes Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This story is told in flashback. Emma Andrews is a beautiful, well-to-do, young…
Under Heaven
Editors' choice
Under Heaven is a “variation upon themes of the Tang,” a sweeping look at China during the 8th century, seen…
Moonshine
Zephyr Hollis is a thoroughly modern New York woman of the 1920s. She spends her days attending a variety of…
The Bones of Avalon
Editors' choice
England 1560, and the young Queen Elizabeth is still settling into her new throne. Whilst trying to usher in a…
Ondine: The Summer of Shambles
Ondine de Groot runs away from Psychic Summercamp to return to her family home, an inn, taking with her a…
An Irish Country Girl
Patrick Taylor has created a delightful series set in the little town of Ballybucklebo, Northern Ireland, in the mid-1960s. An…
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