When Rowan, the emperor’s youngest daughter, discovers a magical plot to kill her father, she must overcome her fear of magic to save him. “An appealing work, lightly touched with genuine period detail but focusing more on a prickly preadolescent not-quite-friendship, family ties, and a girl’s reluctant awakening to magic.”--LOCUS

His Majesty's Elephant

Children's Books

TARR, JUDITH

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarion Books

Judith Tarr returns to her created world of mages in this fourth volume of her Avaryan Rising series. The Sunborn's heirs have ruled the two empires for four generations, but the latest heir to the thrones of Endros and Asanion does not sit easily. Estarion saw his father die in the golden palace of Asanion, victim of mage-wrought poison and the enduring hatred of a conquered race. On the very day of his enthronement, after long years of regency, Estarion is forced to agree to return to Asanion - and he vows that even if he must rule that accursed land, he will never love it. With the new Golden Emperor travels his beloved, Vanyi, the mage-born priestess who can never be Empress. She was born a common fisherman's daughter, but gifted with great power - more, perhaps, than the Emperor himself wields. And waiting for them In the Golden Palace of Asanion is plot and intrigue, conspirators who would kill the son as they killed the father. They would place their own creature on the throne of empires, and their own God in the seat of the Sunlord.

Arrows of the Sun (Avaryan Rising)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Tor Books

In 336 b.c., Egypt lay under the yoke of Persia, ruled by Governors appointed by the King of Kings in Persis. And in the Temple of Amon in Thebes dwelt the only living child of Nectanebo, the last fully Egyptian Pharaoh, who had been defeated in battle and slain by Darius's servants. But from the north a spirit of fire was moving across the World. A great warrior and general, the king of Macedonia, had risen to rule the Hellenic city-states. Now he was determined to challenge the might of the Persian Empire, to engage Darius himself in battle, and to defeat him. He was called Alexander, and the priests of Amon in Egypt saw that he was destined to rule their ancient land. They saw, too, that if Alexander did not come into the Two Lands soon, the servants of Darius would despoil Egypt beyond recovery. So they sent Meriamon, Beloved of Amon, daughter of Pharaoh, Singer and Priestess of the God, up from Egypt to the Plains of Issus, where a great battle had been fought, and the Persian king defeated. There she was to find Alexander, and persuade him to turn from the straight Eastward road and come south - where the double crown of Egypt awaited him. But as history teaches us, Alexander the Great was not a man to leave his enemies in safety behind him. The throne of the Pharaohs was a powerful lure, but on the way to Egypt he must conquer unbreachable Tyre, and take the ancient city of Gaza. LORD OF THE TWO LANDS is firmly based in the history of Alexander the Great, and then steeped in the rich, sun-drenched magics of ancient Egypt. It is a novel that will transport you back to the time of heroes, when one man changed the face of the world.

Lord of the Two Lands

Passion and politics, Imperial Rome and Ptolemaic Egypt, meet and clash in an epic recreation of the story of Cleopatra, Egypt's last queen, and her lover, Anthony, as told by Cleopatra's priestess cousin Dione, who witnesses Cleopatra's romantic and military alliances.

Throne of Isis

Pillar of Fire

A sweeping historical fantasy recreates life in ancient Egypt as seen by a slave to the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who banished worship of all the gods but one, led his tribe in the wilderness, and may have been the true Moses.

Forge

Seeking the rulers over the half of the world that is not under their control, the children of the Sun hope to form an alliance with--or conquer--the distant mountain kingdom where Mages are feared and Power is forbidden

Spear of Heaven

When her husband, Otto II, is killed in battle, Byzantine princess Theophano becomes Regent over the tenth-century Holy Roman Empire, while her aunt and advisor, Aspasia, pursues a dangerous love affair with the late king's Moorish physician

The Eagle's Daughter

Queen of Swords

The life and times of Melisende, the Crusader Queen of Jerusalem, regent to her young son, the king, during the twelfth century come to life through the eyes of Lady Richildis, a young Frankish woman on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, who becomes one of Melisende's confidantes.

Hatshepsut was the only daughter of Thutmose and his Great Royal Wife, and carried the King Right in her person. She was trained to govern, and loved her land and people above all other things. But custom and the Gods decreed that she must wed her half brother and be the Great Royal Wife while he reigned as Pharaoh. When her husband died, she should have stepped aside, allowing her husband's son by a concubine to rule over Egypt. But Hatshepsut was still young when her husband-brother died, and his heir was a mere child. The Temple of Amon gave the regency to her. And then Hatshepsut did the unthinkable - she took the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt in her own name and made herself king. Until the twentieth century, the life of Hatshepsut was veiled in mystery. After her death, the nephew whose throne she usurped had taken his revenge in a peculiarly Egyptian way: He eradicated her names from the annals of Egypt, chiseled them off every monument, destroyed every statue he could find, dispersed the goods of her tomb, and hid her nameless mummy. He tried to hide her from history forever. But buried deep in the rock beneath a lovely temple lay the tomb of the architect Senenmut - Hatshepsut's secret lover. And in his tomb was found the history of Hatshepsut, images of her, and the story of a lifelong love that Senenmut could reveal only in death. Judith Tarr has built from Senenmut's true account a novel of great power, about a queen who loved her land too much to see it in the hands of a weak king, and about a woman whose passion for ruling was stronger than her love for one man.

King and Goddess

An epic tale of adventure and romance follows a beautiful, headstrong young priestess named Samara, whose white horse is the incarnation of a goddess on Earth and whose fateful clash with a city where women still rule changes the course of history

White Mare's Daughter

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