The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

9 best books like The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman (Nancy Marie Brown): The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, The Safe-Keeper's Secret, The False Princess, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, A Royal Birthday: A False Princess Short Story, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, Land of Wolves, A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax

The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

Author	Terry Hunt
ISBN	1439150311

The monumental statues of Easter Island, both so magisterial and so forlorn, gazing out in their imposing rows over the island’s barren landscape, have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday 1722. How could the ancient people who...

The Safe-Keeper's Secret

Author	Sharon Shinn
ISBN	0142403571

"The most promising and original writer of fantasy to come along since Robin McKinley."—Peter S. Beagle, best-selling author of The Last Unicorn.

Damiana is safe-keeper in the small village of Tambleham. Neighbors and strangers alike come one by one, in secret, to tell her things they...

The False Princess

Author	Eilis O'Neal
ISBN	1606840797

Princess and heir to the throne of Thorvaldor, Nalia's led a privileged life at court.  But everything changes when it's revealed, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has been hidden away for her protection.  Cast out with little more...

River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

Author	Helen Prejean
ISBN	1400067308

In this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, the nation's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church, and shows that joy and religion are not mutually...

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Author	Kara Cooney
ISBN	1426219776

This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.

Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...

A Royal Birthday: A False Princess Short Story

Author	Eilis O'Neal
ISBN	1606845519

This e-short prequel to The False Princess will appeal to fans of Shannon Hale and Tamora Pierce, giving them a new author to love and a new fantasy world to enter, a world filled with wizardry, mystery, and just the right touch of romance.

This prequel introduces the court of Thorvaldor, Nalia,...

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Author	Christian Wiman
ISBN	0374216789

Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable...

Land of Wolves

Author	Craig Johnson
ISBN	0525522506

The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.

"It's the scenery--and the big guy standing in front of the scenery--that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson's lean and leathery mysteries."
--The New York Times Book Review

Recovering...

A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax

Author	Dorothy Gilman
ISBN	0449208648

A secret agent like no other, Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, yoga--and a little spying now and then. This time the mysterious Mr. Carstairs sent her to Switzerland--to a famous health resort where the world's intelligence agents had gathered. Her mission: to track...