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Priestess of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson · 394 pages

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Red River, Vol. 14

Chie Shinohara · 208 pages

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Circe

Madeline Miller · 408 pages

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child—not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power—the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus b

Single MotherSelf-DiscoveryGods & MythologyFemale Lead
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When You Reach Me

Rebecca Stead · 199 pages

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.

Time TravelSingle MotherSelf-DiscoveryFemale Lead
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Love, Eternally

Morgan O'Neill, Deborah O'Neill Cordes

Ancient RomeTime TravelHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Dark Highlander

Karen Marie Moning · 431 pages

Journey to a world of ancient magic, breathtaking sensuality, thrilling time-travel.... Journey to the world of The Dark Highlander. Crisscrossing the continents and the centuries, here is a novel as gripping as it is sensual--an electrifying adventure that will leave you breathless....I am Dageus MacKeltar, a man with one good conscience and thirteen bad ones, driven to sate my darkest desires...

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Once Every Never

Lesley Livingston · 387 pages

Clarinet Reid is a typical teenager on the surface, except she has a centuries-old Druid blood curse running through her veins. She is locked in a deadly race to find a stolen artifact, avert an explosive catastrophe, save a Celtic warrior princess, and right a wrong that happened centuries before.

Time TravelAncient RomeFantasyFemale Lead
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Kindred

Octavia E. Butler · 287 pages

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduou

Time TravelSelf-DiscoveryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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City of Flowers

Mary Hoffman · 496 pages

Time TravelPortal FantasyFantasyHistorical Fiction
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The Last Hour Between Worlds

Melissa Caruso · 432 pages

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Many Waters

Madeleine L'Engle · 310 pages

Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they belie

Time TravelPortal FantasyGods & MythologyFantasy
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The Freedom Maze

Delia Sherman · 272 pages

Time TravelSelf-DiscoveryHistorical FictionFantasy
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The Unspoken Name

A.K. Larkwood · 464 pages

Portal FantasySelf-DiscoveryGods & MythologyFemale Lead
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The Unmaking of June Farrow

Adrienne Young · 320 pages

Time TravelSelf-DiscoveryFantasyFemale Lead
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Circus Maximus

Damian Dibben

Ancient RomeTime TravelHistorical Fiction
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Queen of Kings

Maria Dahvana Headley · 401 pages

Desperate to resurrect Antony after his suicide, Cleopatra strikes a bargain with Sekhmet, goddess of death and destruction. Cleopatra is transformed into a vampire, an immortal shapeshifter of superhuman strength-- and yearning for revenge as much as she craves human blood.

Ancient RomeGods & MythologyHistorical FictionFantasy
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The Just City

Jo Walton · 368 pages

Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime bet

Time TravelGods & MythologyFemale LeadFantasy
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Divine By Blood

P.C. Cast · 392 pages

From the bestselling author of the "House of Night" series comes the award-winning world of Partholon, rich in goddesses, intrigue and magic. Raised as a normal girl in Oklahoma for eighteen years, Morrigan had no idea how special she really was. After discovering the truth of her heritage, her rage and grief take on a power of their own, carrying her back to the world of Partholon. Yet, instead o

Portal FantasySelf-DiscoveryGods & MythologyFemale Lead
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Roman Holiday

Jodi Taylor · 44 pages

Ancient RomeTime TravelFemale Lead
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InuYasha: Turning Back Time

Rumiko Takahashi · 186 pages

Kagome, a young school girl from modern-day Japan, gets pulled into a time portal and transported back to feudal Japan where she discovers that her destiny is linked to that of Inu-Yasha, a doglike half-demon, and together, they search for the Shikon Jewel which can fulfull the dreams of any man or monster.

Time TravelPortal FantasyFemale LeadFantasy
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Grave Mercy

Robin LaFevers · 549 pages

*Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?* Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassi

Gods & MythologySelf-DiscoveryHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Valley of the Moon

Melanie Gideon · 394 pages

"Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way in the world when she stumbles across an idyllic town in the Sonoma valley where she feels instantly at home. It seems like a place from another time--until she realizes it actually is. One night in 1906, an earthquake left Greengage stuck in the past. Lux must keep one foot in her world, raising her son as well as she can with the odds stacked again

Time TravelSingle MotherHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Vacation Under the Volcano

Mary Pope Osborne · 74 pages

Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash.

Ancient RomeTime TravelFemale Lead
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Mark of the Thief

Jennifer A. Nielsen · 345 pages

When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome. Nic, a slave in the mines of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cave filled with Julius Caesa

Ancient RomeGods & MythologyHistorical FictionFantasy

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