Judith Tarr

When word of the Macedonian king, Alexander, reaches Egypt, the priests of Amon send Meriamon, daughter of Pharaoh, to find Alexander and persuade him to become king of their land. Reprint.

Lord of the Two Lands

The Hounds of God, the minions of the early Inquisition, threaten to annihilate both Alfred, now the Lord Chancellor of Rhiyana, and his Kingdom, a challenge that leads to a final confrontation with the Pope himself

The Hounds of God

Alfred, a healer with special powers, and Thea, a shapechanger, are captured when Crusaders capture the city of Constantinople

The Golden Horn

Brother Alfred, torn between his pursuits of healing and scholarship, and the secret knowledge of his elven blood, abandons his life at St. Ruan's Abbey after a seriously wounded ambassador of the elven King Gwydion places the fate of three fueding kingdoms in his hands. In the sequel, The Golden Horn (1985), Alfred and his elven companion, Thea, travel to Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, but Thea disappears when the crusaders sack the city. In The Hounds of God (1986), the elven kingdom of Rhiyana is attacked by the Hounds of God, who kill the king's son and kidnap Thea and her newborn twins. Alamut (1989), and The Dagger and the Cross (1991) are related works that complete the cycle. The first three books in the cycle are called The Hounds and the Falcon trilogy. Recommended.

The Isle of Glass

Olympias, a priestess of the Goddess, has a dream which inspires her to go to Samothrace where she meets Philip of Macedon, marries him, and becomes the mother of Alexander the Great and a powerful queen in her own right.

Bring Down the Sun

The Kingdom of Lower Egypt has been occupied for a hundred years by the Shepherd Kings, the Hyksos, conquerors from the East who came with horses and dreadful war chariots to crush the foot soldiers of Pharoah. All of Lower Egypt is occupied by foreign lords, including the ancient household of The Sun Ascendant, where a young woman named Iry was once the lady of the holding and is now a slave. But there is a change in the wind-the holding has passed to the son of a woman of a Far-Eastern tribe, a Priestess of Horse Goddess, and with him comes the living incarnation of the Goddess, the White Mare. The Mare has driven her people to Egypt in the wake of the foreign kings and, to the horror of the invaders, chooses Iry to be her Servant and Chief Priestess. And now the Pharoah Ahmose, who still rules the Upper Kingdom, will move to take back the Lower Kingdom by making a two-fold alliance: with the seafaring empire of Crete, and with Horse Goddess herself.

The Shepherd Kings

This fantasy set in the days of the Crusades involves a hero who is half human and half immortal.

Alamut

For five thousand Earthyears, the planet called Nevermore has been empty. Its cities are deserted, with every trace of their inhabitants erased. Only a handful of nomadic tribes remain, none of whom remember the ones who went before. An expedition from Earth has been excavating one of the planet's many ruins, and attempting without success to find the cause of its people's disappearance. Now the expedition is in trouble--its funding cut--and unless it makes a major discovery, and soon, it'll be shut down.

Forgotten Suns

Alfred of St. Ruan's Abbey is a monk and a scholar, a religious man whose vocation is beyond question. But Alfred is also, without a doubt, one of the fair folk, for though he is more than seventy years old by the Abbey's records, he seems to be only a youth. But Alfred is drawn from the haven of his monastery into his dangerous currents of politics when an ambassador from the kingdom of Rhiyana to Richard Coeur de Leon is wounded and Alfred himself is sent to complete the mission. There he encounters the Hounds of God, who believe that the fair folk have no souls, and must be purged from the Church and from the world.

The Hound and the Falcon

A fictional portrait of Queen Hatshepsut, a woman who loved her land too much to see it in the hands of one weak king after another, describes how she made a commoner her chief servant, her architect, and her secret paramour, and how she became pharaoh of all Egypt. Reprint. AB.

King and Goddess

A evocative portrayal of a strong woman in a perilous political situation follows Melisende, a Frank princess living in Jerusalem and heir to the Crusader Kingdom, as she struggles against a patriarchal system and powerfully commands her sworn knights. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Queen of Swords

William, the bastard son of a Norman duke and a magical woman of Druid descent, is the man destined to free England from Saxon rule and to bring back magic to Britain, but first he must master his own innate magical talents, with the help of Mathilda, a beautiful French noblewoman. Original.

Rite of Conquest

Falling in love with the man she intended only to use for his political power, Cleopatra becomes determined to maintain her hold on the throne of Egypt despite Rome's persistent attacks, until her famous suicide. Reprint. LJ.

Throne of Isis

Acclaimed as one of the finest authors of historical novels today, Judith Tarr has crafted a daring and provocative new interpretation of a crucial turning point in human history. This powerful saga is an intimate account of the lives of men and women in the ancient Egyptian empire.

Pillar of Fire

Prince Aidan has obtained the papal dispensation he needs to marry the assassin Lady Morgiana, but there are those in the Church who would do anything to stop the union of the two immortal sorcerers

A Novel of the Crusades

The Dagger and the Cross

In this sequel to White Mare's Daughter, the people of the horse goddess once more face the threat of war. Generations ago, the people of the White Mare migrated westward, through the great forests, until they met and clashed with the people of the cities of the Mother. They brought war to the cities, but in the end they made peace through alliance and marriage. But now war threatens again. Now there is something rumbling across the plains, coming from the East: a dreadful new weapon wielded by the tribes of the east as they once again begin to push westward. Rhian, a potter's daughter with the gift of seeing, has dreamed of these terrifying war chariots. Emrys, the King's son, has seen them at the edge of his kingdom. Together, they must try to find a way to defend the Cities of the Mothers from a new invasion. Tarr's series of books about the people of the Horse Goddess is a great and powerful saga from the mists of time. The tales she tells are the root of every legend, the heart of every myth. Judith Tarr has created a vividly believable tale of destiny you will never forget.

Daughter of Lir

Obtaining permission to accompany a powerful mage on a quest to a high mountain kingdom, willful heiress Daruya is horrified when her kingdom is threatened by evil forces on the eve of her departure. Reprint. PW. AB.

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