The Lion Hunter
10 best books like The Lion Hunter (Elizabeth E. Wein): Saturday, the Twelfth of October, The Hidden Land, Stormwitch, Flora's Dare, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere, Frontier Wolf, Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival, The Legend of the King, Camelot's Blood, Porius
| Author | Norma Fox Mazer |
| ISBN | 0440995922 |
This was one of my favorite books as a kid. Was thrilled to discover it is still a good book when I read it as an adult. Zan, the protagonist, is transported back in time to a (presumed) prehistoric tribe. Zan's time with these people is a well written comming of age story. We never do learn who exactly the tribe...
| Author | Pamela Dean |
| ISBN | 0142501433 |
"That talent of mine that in my country turns to sorcery, in yours turns to this making up." (italics mine).
Essentially, this and the Secret Country should have been one book. I would have still been furious with it for being desperately and deliciously subtle, but the jarring feeling of the...
| Author | Susan Vaught |
| ISBN | 1582349525 |
It is 1969, and Ruba has just moved to Mississippi from Haiti to live with her Grandmother Jones. This world is very different from her old life, where she spent days beachcombing with Ba, her maternal grandmother, and learning the lore of magic and history that she holds close. But magic isn't welcome...
| Author | Ysabeau S. Wilce |
| ISBN | 0152054278 |
Flora Fyrdraaca wants nothing more than to be a ranger, and for that she must master the magickal—and dangerous—language of Gramatica. But before she can find the ideal teacher, her aspirations are put to the test. Would a true ranger be intimidated by a tentacle that reaches for her from the depths...
| Author | Phyllis Ann Karr |
| ISBN | 1587150123 |
In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy.
Queen Guenevere...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0140314725 |
A.D. 349
Alexios Flavius Aquila is an excellent swordsman but an immature military leader. A disastrous decision nearly gets him discharged from the Roman army, but his high-ranking uncle begrudgingly pulls some strings, and well-meaning-but-inept Alexios is transferred instead.
The...
In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever—and in period clothing and gear—the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.In early...
| Author | Gerald Morris |
| ISBN | 0547144202 |
In this final installment of the Squire's Tale series, Terence and his fellow Knights of the Round Table must come together in a last stand to save Camelot. The characters Gerald Morris has brought to life throughout his series—“Terence and Gawain, Lynet and Gaheris, Luneta and Rhience, Dinadan...
| Author | Sarah Zettel |
| ISBN | 0007158742 |
An evocative and highly engaging romantic fantasy set in the evocative time of King Arthur. Laurel Carnbrea, Queen of Cambryn, arrives at Camelot to marry a man she has never met -- Sir Agravain, the brother of the renowned Sir Gawain. Laurel has heard that Agravain is a reserved and cold man, but marriage...
| Author | John Cowper Powys |
| ISBN | 1585673668 |
"Porius stood upon the low square tower above the Southern Gate of Mynydd-y-Gaer, and looked down on the wide stretching valley below." So begins one of the most unique novels of twentieth-century literature, by one of its most "extraordinary, neglected geniuses," said Robertson Davies of John Cowper...
| Author | Chris Moriarty |
| ISBN | 0547466323 |
“A fabulously imaginative historical fantasy.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review of The Inquisitor’s Apprentice
At the turn of the twentieth century, New York’s Bowery District becomes the scene of a terrible murder when the Klezmer King gets fried to a crisp by his Electric...
| Author | Ann Halam |
| ISBN | 0553494147 |
When Sloe was tiny, her Papa disappeared and she and her mama went to live in a prison camp in the snowy north, in a time and place when there are no more wild animals. Mama’s crime: teaching science, and her dedication to the hope that the lost animal species can be reborn. To Sloe, Mama’s secret work...
| Author | Jo Graham |
| ISBN | 1451667213 |
Liberté, Egalité, Sensualité.
As a spirit of change overturns Europe’s old order, strong-willed Elzelina Versfelt enters her own age of revolution. Married as a romantic young girl to a man who wanted only her money, but neither loves nor desires her, Elza refuses to be chained any longer....
