Judith Tarr -- Available Books

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Arrows of the Sun
Judith Tarr / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 1995
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Estarion, the embittered heir to the Endros empire, grieves over the murder of his father while journeying to the Golden Palace of Asanion, where conspirators wait to kill Estarion before he can claim the throne. Reprint. AB. PW.

Avaryan Rising : The Hall of the Mountain King, the Lady of Han-Gilen, a Fall of Princes
Judith Tarr / Paperback / Published November 1997
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Blood Vengeance (War World)
Susan Shwartz, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1994
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Three hundred years after the Saurons arrived on Haven and wiped out all technology save their own, one woman unites the many tribes of Haven to overthrow the Sauron overlords.

His Majesty's Elephant
Judith Tarr / Hardcover / Published October 1993
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In the eighth century, Rowan, Charlemagne's youngest daughter, discovers a plot by the Byzantines to steal a powerful magic talisman that has been given to her father, a scheme that could result in Charlemagne's death and the destruction of his kingdom.

Household Gods
Judith Tarr, Harry Turtledove / Hardcover / Published September 1999
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The standard time-travel plot turns on what might be changed by the futuristic know-how of an intrepid time traveler--typically a mechanically-minded man who "invents" modern weapons, medical technology, and so on. In Household Gods, Tarr and Turtledove make their time traveler a 1990s Los Angeles lawyer with no special technical or historical knowledge.

Household Gods
Judith Tarr, Harry Turtledove / Mass Market Paperback / Expected July 2000
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King and Goddess
Judith Tarr / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1998
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Judith Tarr takes the strange facts of the life of Queen Hatshepsut and builds from them a novel of great power. Here is the queen who loved her land too much to see it in the hands of one weak king after another--and the woman who loved a commoner, and made him her chief servant, her architect, and her secret paramour.

Lady of Horses
Judith Tarr / Hardcover / Expected June 2000
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Pillar of Fire
Judith Tarr / Mass Market Paperback / Published December 1997
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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
Judith Tarr, Anna Fields (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published December 1996
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Nofret, an intelligent and forthright Hittite slave of an Egyptian princess, is at the center of this rich novel of life in ancient Egypt. The story fictionalizes the biblical scholar Ahmed Osman's theory of the origins of Moses and the Exodus story. Anna Fields's narration is consistently fresh, bringing immediacy to the novel's events, while at the same time creating personas for a large cast of characters who develop and grow as they gain age and experience. The many unfamiliar names, which could grow tedious to the reader, flow gracefully through the story, and Fields's portrayal of a main...

Spear of Heaven
Judith Tarr / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1995
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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.

The Eagle's Daughter
Judith Tarr / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 1996
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When Otto II dies unexpectedly, leaving the empire to his four-year-old son, the Empress Theophano must fight one of the greatest wars of succession of the Dark Ages. For Otto II's cousin, Henry of Burgundy, would have the Regency for himself and the Throne as well--if he can take them. From the author of Pillar of Fire. HC: Tor.

The Hound and the Falcon
Judith Tarr / Paperback / Published June 1993
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The Shepherd Kings
Judith Tarr / Hardcover / Published June 1999
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Horse-breeder Tarr, a Yale-Cambridge graduate in history, switched horses recently, from writing 500-page ancient and medieval historical doorstoppers (Queen of Swords, 1997, etc.) to mythicizing Old Europe in Neolithic times (White Mare's Daughter, 1998). In her last epic, set in what is now Kiev, the Great Goddess Epona was incarnated in the majestic White Mare. Here, Tarr moves to Lower Egypt in the days of the Hyksos chariot warrior-conquerors known as the Shepherd Kings. The Goddess of the White Mare has moved as well and has chosen an Egyptian girl to be her new priestess and to ally the...

Throne of Isis
Judith Tarr / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 1995
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/TARR Judith Tarr returns to Egypt, the setting of her Lord Of The Two Lands, to retell the greatest romantic epic in history: The story of Cleopatra, the last Queen of Egypt. "In this carefully researched, well-crafted novel about Anthony and Cleopatra, Tarr weaves . . . a marvelously entertaining tapestry."--Booklist.

Throne of Isis
Judith Tarr, Grace Conlin (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published March 1996
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Returning to Egypt following her romance based on Alexander the Great's sojourn there (Lord of the Two Lands, 1992), Tarr retells the story of the historical lovers Anthony and Cleopatra and adds a fictional pair, Dione and Lucius. In 41 B.C., following the death of Julius Caesar, the Roman empire is ruled by two men: Octavian, the future Caesar Augustus, claims Italy and the west, while Marc Anthony controls the east. Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, lover of Julius, must choose sides if Egypt is to survive. Summoned by Marc Anthony, Cleopatra makes her decision--the pair become lovers and soul mates...

White Mare's Daughter
Judith Tarr / Hardcover / Published June 1998
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Tarr (Queen of Swords, 1997, etc.) usually grinds out two huge historicals a year based on medieval and ancient history. Here, though, she takes a giant leap back into Neolithic times and a mythic Old Europe to focus on the majestic White Mare--the Great Goddess Epona incarnate--and on ancient equestrian practices among nomads, as well as on goddess worship. The White Mare's daughter is the beautiful priestess Sarama, who leads a nomadic warrior band on a quest for a metropolis masterminded by females; at one point, she nearly exhausts herself in crossing a magically vast forest. The story is ...

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