A Wind in Cairo
10 best books like A Wind in Cairo (Judith Tarr): The Shadow of Albion, Shadow Castle, Sorcerer's Legacy, Grimbold's Other World, The Crown of Silence, Horse Fantastic, The Doomsday Machine: A Further Astonishing Adventure of Horatio Lyle, The Sword of Maiden's Tears, Piper at the Gate, The Armor of Light
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0312864272 |
Thrust into a volatile world where King Henry IX rules over the English Empire, America never revolted, and Napoleon Bonaparte marches unchecked across Europe, is young Sarah Cunningham, ripped from our history by magic and the machinations of the dying Duchess of Roxbury.Magically coerced into...
| Author | Marian Cockrell |
| ISBN | 0595092969 |
In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired...
| Author | Janny Wurts |
| ISBN | 0586204822 |
Widowed by a violent conquest, imprisoned as a spoil of war, spirited Lady Elienne encounters a formidable visitation inside her locked cell. A powerful, unknown sorcerer promises her a reprieve in trade for a precarious fate: safe transfer from her ruined duchy to another world, there to become chosen...
| Author | Nicholas Stuart Gray |
| ISBN | 0441303803 |
Some time back, wicked machinations in the world of night resulted in the prince and heir-apparent being abandoned in our world. Named Muffler, and raised by simple goat herders, Muffler seems all set to lead a perfectly normal and peaceful life- except that he has the power to talk to animals. This leads...
| Author | Storm Constantine |
| ISBN | 0312873654 |
When Shan was fifteen years old, dark soldiers came out of the west, like a cloud of evil boiling over the soft hills of his homeland. They commanded terrible beasts, which killed with hook claws like scythes and cold eyes that dripped icy fire. The soldiers wore helmets that looked like fiends, tusked...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0886775043 |
part of this anthology: Silverdown's Gold - 5 stars
Trionn the scullion could never pause anywhere for more than a minute without attracting a heap of cats. It did not matter wether his clothes reeked of the midden on those days when he raked out the garbage, or if he was simply sitting, huddled...
| Author | Catherine Webb |
| ISBN | 1905654006 |
There are many mysteries in this world that are yet to be resolved in 1865. Some of them, man was not meant to know. Scientist, inventor, and occasional sleuth, Horatio Lyle, is a man of science and a man of reason. As such, he does not care for the mysterious sect known as the Tseiqin and the strange,...
The Sword of Maiden's Tears
| Author | Rosemary Edghill |
| ISBN | 0886776228 |
MAGIC GONE ASTRAY - — It was Beltane Eve and student librarian Ruth Marlowe's thirtieth birthday when she stumbled over New York City's latest mugging victim. He was tall, with long silvery hair, catlike eyes, pointed ears, and he was garbed in the finest of hand-sewn medieval wear. His name - he told...
| Author | Mary Stanton |
| ISBN | 0671698206 |
While i liked the characters in this book awhole lot more, i felt alot of it was too easy? not believable? It was like, the story is great, alot of potential, but the author didn't want to take the time to lead you there. Also,at the beginning of the book, I like Piper...alot. But by the end, he loses something,...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0671697838 |
The heavy summer air of 1595 is full of portents for Elizabeth, England's Queen, and James VI, King of Scotland. A coven of witches secretly controlled by the Wizard Earl of Bothwell has summoned a storm to sink the ship that bears James' bride to Scotland. Though the ship made port, the success of their...
| Author | André Maurois |
| ISBN | 1903252075 |
Can I describe this as a geopolitical children’s book with an eventual message of peace and reconciliation?
The idea is that two squabbling brothers, one fat and one thin, discover an underground world divided into two states, that of the plump Fattypuffs and that of the scrawny Thinifers....
| Author | R.A. MacAvoy |
| ISBN | 0553265571 |
Set against the colorful and magical backdrop of Ireland, The Grey Horse chronicles a time when the Irish people suffered under harsh English overlords who sought to destroy their culture and way of life. Into the Irish town of Carraroe, a magnificent, completely grey stallion appears. The horse brings...
| Author | Barbara Hambly |
| ISBN | 0345381017 |
Chrysanda Flamande was the sultriest vamp of the silver screen in Hollywood, California, in the year 1923. Then an elderly Chinese gentleman warned her that a trinket she'd worn in her last movie had marked her to be the bride of an ancient devil-god of Manchuria. Now the Rat God is stalking closer, and...
| Author | Phyllis Eisenstein |
| ISBN | 0345276426 |
"This is the story about a boy whose mother is a sorceress who uses spiders to make magic. The boy does not know his father and was told he died. He goes in search for him and to learn about himself. He does not want to be a sorcerer, but a knight like his father. He does not know that his father was really a sorcerer....
