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1 | 1993 | 2021 | The Forest House Avalon #2 Cover Blurb | Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L Paxson | | |
| From audible.com:
She was Eilan, the daughter of a Druidic warleader and gifted with visions. In a land struggling to survive both Roman conquerors and her own people's enemies, surely fate had marked her to become a priestess of the Forest House.
But first Eilan had chosen a different, forbidden path - to love Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood among the legions sent to subdue her country. So she must hide a terrible secret when she is anointed as the new High Priestess. With mighty enemies poised to usurp the wealth of magic the Forest House sheltered, Eilan could only trust in the power of the great Goddess to find her destiny amidst the treacherous labyrinth in which fate had placed her. | |
2 | 1997 | 2021 | Lady of Avalon Avalon #3 Cover Blurb | Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L Paxson | | |
| From audible.com:
Through the generations the women of Avalon prepare for the coming of the Defender, the sacred king who will guard the old ways of the Britons and save their land from destruction. On the holy isle of Avalon, hidden in the mists between the world of Faerie and the world of men, they wait. For High Priestess Caillean, facing the Roman foe, salvation comes not through victory, but bitter sacrifice.
Two hundred years later, her successor, Dierna, faces a new enemy: the Saxon hordes who assail her people like savages. By the time of Viviane, Britain seems wholly lost. But a Merlin is made amongst the Druids once more, and the day of the Defender, who will come to be known as Arthur, draws close.
A spellbinding historical fantasy, Lady of Avalon links the best-selling novels in the Avalon series - The Forests of Avalon and The Mists of Avalon. | |
3 | 1982 | 2021 | The Mists of Avalon Avalon #1 Cover Blurb | Marion Zimmer Bradley | | |
| From audible.com:
A posthumous recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, Marion Zimmer Bradley reinvented - and rejuvenated - the King Arthur mythos with her extraordinary Mists of Avalon series. In this epic work, Bradley follows the arc of the timeless tale from the perspective of its previously marginalized female characters: Celtic priestess Morgaine, Gwenhwyfar, and High Priestess Viviane. | |
4 | 2001 | 2021 | Priestess of Avalon Avalon #4 Cover Blurb | Marion Zimmer Bradley Diana L Paxson | | |
| From audible.com:
When a British princess falls in love with a Roman officer destined for imperial greatness, their forbidden desire exacts an unexpected price: banishment from Avalon. Journeying outside the enchanted isle, Helena grows from maiden to mother to wisewoman, experiencing both joy---with the birth of her child---and loss, when politics forces her lover to choose between the Empire and her. Then Helena's son, Constantine, becomes Emperor, and her position as Empress-Mother propels her to prominence at a crucial turning point in Western history. Seeking a way to bridge the pagan world of the Goddess and the new Christian Empire, Helena embarks on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to find the truth that transcends both the old religion and the new. | |
5 | 1980 | | Survey Ship Cover Blurb | Marion Zimmer Bradley | | |
| Six of Earth's finest young people, perfect in mind and body, have been trained from the cradle for one task - to brave the infinite dangers of space, to find new homes for Man. But once alone in the pitiless universe, they are betrayed by their ship and plagued by space hazards: their voyage becomes a grim test of survival. To survive they must tame their wild talents. To survive, they must turn their training into skill, with no margin for error. To survive, they must conquer their fears, longings and nightmares. They must become a team. They must learn how to love. Or they die...
SURVEY SHIP
ONLY MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY, CREATOR OF THE CLASSIC DARKOVER BOOKS, COULD HAVE WRITTEN THIS INTENSE, MOVING HUMAN DRAMA OF LOVE AND PERIL IN DEEP SPACE. ONLY ARTIST STEPHEN FABIAN COULD HAVE DONE JUSTICE TO HER VISION. MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATED | |
6 | 1982 | | Web of Darkness The Fall of Atlantis #2 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | | |
7 | 1983 | | Web of Light The Fall of Atlantis #1 | Marion Zimmer Bradley | | |