Lavinia by Ursula K Le Guin
Publisher Comments In The Aeneid, Virgil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.
Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner that she will be the cause of a bitter war and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to make her own destiny, and she tells us what Virgil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life.
Lavinia is a book of love and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers. Your price $14.95 Used Hardcover
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Enigma Harmony 2 by C F Bentley
Publisher Comments Within a space opera landscape, H armony explores the spirituality of a different human culture bound by a rigid caste system. Laudae Sissy, the new H igh Priestess of the world called H armony, reaches across all seven castes of her society, seeking a new unity that will protect their isolation from the rest of the galaxy. But other cultures and races are testing their borders, searching for the most valuable commodity in civilized space. Sissy's quest leads her through a quagmire of human motivations in search of a new understanding of life upon H armony's Path. Hardcover
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Review SF Crowsnest Review:
"...This is a lovely book and you can take from it what you will. If you want a love story, it can be that. If you want an examination of the trials of growing up, it has those, too. Considerations of what it means to be a young leader in uncertain times? You got it. The difficulty of reconciling what you want with what you need? That, too. The possibility that you will destroy the thing that you love most? Oh yes. Sylvia Kelso gives us all that and also writes about the desert of Hethria with vividness and familiarity, expressing an adoration of the strange and often hostile environment that her narrator comes to share." SF Crowsnest Your price $[RetailPrice] [AccountingCategory] [Binding]
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The Meri by Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn
Synopsis A WOMAN ALONE IN A MAN'S WORLD OF MAGIC . . . She saw her parents murdered when she was but a child. Rescued from the ruins of her family's homestead by a teacher of the Divine Art, Mereddyd-a-Lagan swore to learn the powerful secrets necessary to track down the murderers and exact vengeance. But first she would have to overcome centuries of prejudice against female mages, and become the first ever female apprentice to the Meri -- the otherworldly Being who stands between humanity and the Spirit of the Universe. But on the eve her quest for the Meri is to begin, Mereddyd learns that she is not the first woman in history to take the path to the Meri's shore. . . . And that the one who went before her never returned.
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Free Fall Retrievers 04 by Laura Gilman
Publisher Comments The Cosa Nostradamus is in disarray; the Truce holding violence in check has been broken. Magical Manhattan is at war, and Wren Valere is left without her partner/lover Sergei, whose past loyalties keep him from her side just when she needs him the most. Hoping to keep herself occupied, Wren takes a job but what should have been an ordinary Retrieval instead forces her to realize that it is time to do more. It is time for the Cosa to take the battle to the enemy. But she'll do it her way. The Retrievers' way. Sneaky, smartand with maximum damage possible. What was lost will be found, what was stolen will be Retrieved. And this war will be ended, once and for all. Wren Valere always finishes the job. Always. Your price $5.95 Used Trade Paperback
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Future We Wish We Had by Martin Greenberg, Rebecca Lickiss
Publisher Comments The future holds endless possibilities... This volume inclues 16 intriguing visions of tomorrow. Features stories by: Esther M. Friesner Brenda Cooper Kevin J. Anderson P. R. Frost Mike Resnick James Patrick Kelly Lisanne Norman Dean Wesley Smith Irene Radford Kristine Kathryn Rusch And more... For all of those who thought that by now that they'd be driving along the skyways in their own personal jet car, who assumed that humans would have established bases on the Moon and Mars, or that diseases would have been conqured, the aging process slowed to a crawl, and war eliminated along with social injustice -- here are sixteen stories of futures that might someday be reality. Mass Market
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Moon In The Mirror Tess Noncoire 2 by P R Frost, Irene Radford
Publisher Comments Tess Noncoiré, bestselling fantasy writer turned martial arts demon hunter, is back for another rollicking adventure. Trouble has followed Tess to her own doorstep, and now she and her sidekick Scrap must protect her mother from a demon shes fallen in love with while at the same time fighting off an invasion led by the king of the Trollswho bears far too close a resemblance to a garden gnome... Your price $4.95 Used Mass Market
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Stone War by Madeleine E Robins
Publisher Comments John Tietjen loves New York City like life itself. But while he's out of town at a conference, confused reports come out of the city. Millions of refugees are streaming out, each bearing contradictory tales of fire, earthquake, explosions, collapse. Making his perilous way back, he gathers a few survivors and establishes a shelter. But the full nature of the catastrophe is still unclear. Mass Market
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