The Anubis Murders

Author	Mary Gentle
ISBN	0575076607

In asking for books with gender variant main characters, I was told to look up this alternate history book about a "true hermaphrodite". Within the first five pages, the author established the character's genital status with a gay sex scene, with no lube, with a complete stranger. So right off the bat,...

Author

Beth Kanell

This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.

Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...

Author	Peter Dickinson
ISBN	0330415468

This book caught my eye purely based on the name of the author -- I grew up loving the movie "Flight of Dragons," and not only did Peter Dickinson write the book that movie is based on, but the filmmakers named the main character in his honor. A curious reason to pick up a book, perhaps, but it at least caught...

Author	Marion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN	0886779960

Contents:

Introduction · Elisabeth Waters
A Passage of Power · Diana L. Paxson
Lessons Learned · Kati Doughery-Carthum
Kendat’s Ax · Jan Combs
The Tower of Song · Howard Holman
The Needed Stone · Denise Lopes Heald
Armageddon · Lisa S. Silverthorne
The...

Author	Joan Marshall Grant
ISBN	1585678864

As a child, the astonishing Joan Grant became aware of her uncanny "Far Memory," the ability to recall past incarnations who had lived in long-ago times and far-flung places. Her seven historical novels stand out for their vividness and rich detail. For Joan, these books were not works of the imagination...

Author	Thomas Harlan
ISBN	0812590104

If someone were to ask what this reader's thoughts are on Thomas Harlan's second book in the Oath of Empire series, off the top of my head I would say that it is mighty descriptive. Not a slight detail is overlooked on anything written about the beard on Mohammed's face, the hair on Maxian's head, the legionary...

Author	H. Rider Haggard
ISBN	1905432801

In the fourth and final book in the She sequence, the beautiful and immortal Ayesha tells her tale of power, wisdom, love, and deception, in her own words

Arabian by birth, Ayesha's natural beauty was the cause in her father's kingdom of many wars and conflicts between jealous princes and...

Author	Christian Jacq
ISBN	0671028588

It's the 6th century A.D. and Christianity has been imposed throughout Egypt. On the holy island of Philae, off the southern coast, the last community faithful to the old ways struggles against the invader and continues active worship in its temple. Isis, leader of the community, is determined that...

Author	Frank Frazetta
ISBN	0812534220

Okay, this book is either one star, or five stars. I've averaged it out to four because I enjoyed it, but you gotta be looking for this kind of book. This is number two of a series of books based on the Death Dealer painting by Frank Frazetta, which is an iconic painting of a big guy with an axe that was embraced...

Author	Tom Holland
ISBN	0349112231

Let's start by saying that this is a old-school literary horror. That means there are no cheap thrills here, like a bunch of mummy's jumping out of every corner jelling: "BOOO!!!ARE YOU SCARED YET???" None of that here.

Don't mistake that with this book not being scary, because its scary as hell,...

Author	C.L. Moore
ISBN	1601250452

First published in the pages of Weird Tales in 1934, C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry is the first significant female sword and sorcery protagonist and one of the most exciting and evocative characters the genre has ever known. Published alongside seminal works by H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the...

Author	Lauren Haney
ISBN	0380792672

The many and mighty deities of Egypt must be given their due. All commerce is conducted under the watchful eyes of the functionaries of the great Queen Maatkare Hatshepsut. Death faces any and all who could rob the royal hose of Kemet of its rightful share. Lieutenant Bak, commander of the Medjay police,...

Author	Gill Harvey
ISBN	0747579458

The Orphan of the Sun by Gill Harvey takes place under the sweltering sun in the civilization of Ancient Egypt. It is a historical fiction book with a mix of adventure and mystery. This is a book about Meryt-Re, a girl who had been asked to marry by Senmut. She really has no interest in marrying him and has...

Author	Mike Ashley
ISBN	0786710659

From Cleopatra and Herodotus to Howard Carter and the Curse of the Pharaohs, the investigators in The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits uncover the murder mysteries of Ancient Egypt in over two dozen stories. Master anthologist Mike Ashley has gathered hidden gems and specially commissioned pieces...

Author	Pauline Gedge
ISBN	0143052934

Huy has risen from lowly origins to become the Seer of the King. Yet Amunhotep’s patronage is both a blessing and a curse to Huy, who feels imprisoned by the gift Thoth has imposed on him and by the life he must live to keep it. Though rewarded with wealth and influence, Huy longs for the pleasures of those...

Author

Brad Geagley

"Year of the Hyenas" is a brilliant, original, and unique murder mystery, set in ancient Egypt at the height of that kingdom's glory and power. It is at once a strikingly insightful portrait of a mysterious, complex, and sophisticated society, reminiscent of Norman Mailer's "Ancient Evenings" in...

Author	Paul Doherty
ISBN	0755303415

Mahu, former Chief of Police and Keeper of the Secrets of the Heart is sitting down to record his memories. He sees uneasy quiet reigning in the Royal Circle at Thebes, after the disappearance of the Pharaoh Akenhaten and the abandonment of his new, sun-worshipping religion. Members of different factions...