Golden Trillium
10 best books like Golden Trillium (Andre Norton): The Last Unicorn, The Mists of Avalon, The Fall of Atlantis, Kiss Kiss, I, Elizabeth, One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, The Demigod Diaries, Tiger Burning Bright, Lady of Avalon, Priestess of Avalon
| Author | Peter S. Beagle |
| ISBN | 0451450523 |
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She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone...
The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
In 2007 I joined Goodreads and wrote reviews of some of the books that had most transformed me as a reader. I have since, over the years, taken an absurd amount of geek pride that my review of this book is (I think) the most popular one. And for everyone writing "GET OVER YOURSELF" in the comments, as a response...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0671656155 |
A wounded Atlantean prince...a deadly battle between Dark and Light...and the sisters Deoris and Domaris, whose lives are changed utterly by the magic involving them. These are the elements of The Fall of Atlantis, Marion Zimmer Bradley's epic fantasy about that ancient and legendary realm.
On...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0140018328 |
Finally, a short-story collection by Dahl that didn't send me running for the hills
To put this into context, I've already read The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More & Switch Bitch and both were disturbing and misogynistic. Kiss Kiss was marginally better. Without further ado,...
| Author | Rosalind Miles |
| ISBN | 0609809105 |
A spellbinding novel about Elizabeth I from the internationally bestselling author of the Guenevere and Tristan and Isolde trilogies.
Publicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executed mother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 1572703857 |
A dentist's suspicious death leads Poirot to drill the good doctor's patients, partners, lovers, and friends.
From the Publisher:
What reason would an amiable dentist like Dr. Morely have for committing suicide? He didn't have emotional difficulties, money problems, or love trouble....
| Author | Rick Riordan |
| ISBN | 1423163001 |
What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn't take kindly to intruders? How exactly are Leo, Piper, and Jason supposed to find a runaway table, dodge a band of...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0688143601 |
The House of the Tiger has skillfully ruled Merina in times of peace. But now the indomitable armies of the Emperor Balthasar stand poised to crush the vulnerable city/state. And in the enemy's midst is the gray mage Apolon -- foul necromancer who serves the Dreadful Dark . . . and whose mission it is to...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0788720392 |
Although Bradley set up much of Avalon and Britannia in The Mists of Avalon, the stories in Lady of Avalon actually take place beforehand, and Bradley spends the first third of the book describing Avalon as it was before it was closed off in mists, and Britannia before Christianity had really taken hold....
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0451458621 |
Long-awaited final volume in the Avalon series by bestselling fantasy author, Marion Zimmer Bradley. As the Merlin of Britannia keeps his vigil atop the Tor of Avalon, Rian, the High Priestess of Avalon, dies giving birth to her fifth child. The girl, named Eilan with her mother's dying breath, takes...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0451454243 |
The Forest House—prequel to The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s beloved and enduring classic—is a mesmerizing epic of one woman’s mythic role at a turning point in history.In a Britain struggling to survive Roman invasion, Eilan is the daughter of a Druidic warleader, gifted with...
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon
| Author | Diana L. Paxson |
| ISBN | 0451460286 |
I loved Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Mists of Avalon". This book is loosely based on her mythology, but since Marion died shortly after "Mists of Avalon" was published, most of the other books attributed to her were written by Diana Paxson. Diana is an OK writer, but it isn't up to the quality of Marion, so...
| Author | Diana L. Paxson |
| ISBN | 0670038709 |
Discover the dawn of the mythical legend of Avalon in the long-awaited prequel to Marion Zimmer Bradley�s The Forest House
Diana L. Paxson expands Marion Zimmer Bradley�s beloved and bestselling Avalon series in a dramatic new installment. Marion Zimmer Bradley�s Ravens of Avalon...
| Author | Diana L. Paxson |
| ISBN | 0451462920 |
WOW! What a great book - I couldn't put the book down until I had finished it.
From the "Fall of Alantas" to "Ancestors of Avalon" we learn that tradition is to be passed on when Micail and Tiriki make it to the new land and start the rebuilding of the Temple of Light. Though the "Ancestors of Avalon"...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0140030743 |
There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine that can hear grass scream...Roald Dahl's particular brand of bizarre, alarming and disturbing story-telling has already...
| Author | Ambrose Bierce |
| ISBN | 1494413884 |
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1914) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary.
The sardonic view of human nature...
For twenty-four hours, the Executioner will turn New Mexico into hell on earth
After dozens of battles and an untold body count, Mack Bolan thought his one-man war against the Mafia was coming to an end. He planned a final week of mop-up work, clearing out mob infestations wherever they were...
In the swamps of Florida, the Executioner attacks a ring of smugglers
They call themselves the devil force. A crew of modern-day pirates who report to the Mafia, they scour the coasts of Florida ripping off pleasure cruisers and small-time dealers. They are savage, they are scum—they are...
