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Tarr Judith
Lord of the Two Lands
 List Price: Price: $152.37 DescriptionWhen word of the Macedonian king, Alexander, reaches Egypt, the priests of Amon send Meriamon, daughter of Pharaoh, to find Alexander and persuade him to become king of their land. Reprint. AB. K.
A Wind In Cairo
 List Price: Price: $24.00 DescriptionTHE PRINCE: Spoiled, reckless, heedless of any wants or needs but his own, sentenced to a terrible fate for his sins against man, woman, and GodTHE STALLION: Equally spoiled, equally reckless, bound until death to a bitter servitudeTHE TURK'S HEIR: Fiercest of rivals, most devoted of enemies, whose armor hides a secretCome into the world of the Arabian Nights, where magic and mystery meet; where justice lays a sinner low, and the magic of the heart turns hate to love.Includes the full text of the original Bantam edition, slightly revised, with a new introduction and a bonus short story.
Household Gods
 List Price: Price: $4.66 You Save: $3.33 (42%) DescriptionNicole Gunther-Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her legal skills but weary of the daily grind, of childcare, and of sexist coworkers and her deadbeat ex-husband. Then after one exceptionally awful day, she awakens to find herself in a different life, that of a widowed tavernkeeper on the Roman frontier around A.D. 170.
Delighted at first, she quickly begins to realize that her new world is as complicated as her old one. Violence, dirt, adn pain are everywhere; slavery is commonplace, gladiators kill for sport, and drunkenness is taken for granted. Yet, somehow, people manage to face life everyday with humor and goodwill. No quitter, Nicole manages to adapt, despite endless worry about the fate of her children "back" in the twentieth century. Then plague sweeps through Carnuntum, followed by brutal war. Amidst pain and loss on a level she had never imagined, Nicole must find reserved of the sort of strength she had never known. The standard time-travel plot turns on what might be changed by the futuristic know-how of an intrepid time traveler--typically a mechanically-minded man who "invents" modern weapons, medical technology, and so on. In Household Gods, Tarr and Turtledove make their time traveler a 1990s Los Angeles lawyer with no special technical or historical knowledge. Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a single mother of two. Today her daycare provider's quitting. At the office, her male colleague has made partner and she hasn't. The kids get sick, the microwave dies, and her ex goes on vacation with his girlfriend. Staring at a votive plaque of Liber and Libera, Roman household gods, Nicole falls asleep wishing she lived in the past, surely a better and easier time. She awakens in second-century Carnuntum, a town near the Roman Empire's borders. Death, disease, and dirt are commonplace. Slavery and corporal punishment are facts of life, and war, pillage, and rape are constant threats. Mere survival is hard work. Though Nicole adapts and even enjoys some of her experience, she longs to return to her own time. The problems she left behind no longer seem unconquerable. Tarr and Turtledove know their history and bring the reader into a past as vividly real as Nicole's Los Angeles. They create genuine, sympathetic characters whose thoughts and feelings are true to their era and deliver a satisfying conclusion. Household Gods should be on the shelf next to L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall and John Maddox Roberts's SPQR mysteries. --Nona Vero
Dragon Lords and Warrior Women
 List Price: $4.99 DescriptionJourney through the lands of the dead with Judith Tarr, or peek into Sherwood Smith’s picture of the everyday life and concerns of a hero. But beware of Chris Dolley’s recruiting practices for his own justice league.In Dragon Lords and Warrior Women the Book View Press presents nineteen stories of the fantastic; some hard to find gems, others are new offerings, or beloved classics by respected authors who among them define the genre. Journey through the lands of the dead with Judith Tarr, or peek into Sherwood Smith’s picture of the everyday life and concerns of a hero. But beware of Chris Dolley’s recruiting practices for his own justice league. In Dragon Lords and Warrior Women the Book View Press presents nineteen stories of the fantastic; some hard to find gems, others are new offerings, or beloved classics by respected authors who among them define the genre.
Throne of Isis
 List Price: Price: $3.07 You Save: $2.92 (49%) Description/TARR Judith Tarr returns to Egypt, the setting of her Lord Of The Two Lands, to retell the greatest romantic epic in history: The story of Cleopatra, the last Queen of Egypt. "In this carefully researched, well-crafted novel about Anthony and Cleopatra, Tarr weaves . . . a marvelously entertaining tapestry".--Booklist.Tarr Judith News
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