Minerva Bookstore Fiction Selections

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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Free Amazons of Darkover : An Anthology
 (Darkover Anthologies)
(Daw Books, 1993)
ISBN: 0886774306

Tales inspired by Bradley’s Darkover world, including two written by Bradley herself. On the planet of the Bloody Sun, the Free Amazons have set themselves apart from their male-ruled world, owing loyalty only to each other, living their lives as free citizens, equal to any man or woman, soldier or lord.

Rita Mae Brown
High Hearts
(Bantam Books, 1993)
ISBN: 0553278886

Geneva Chatfield cuts her hair, dons a uniform, and joins the Confederate cavalry to be with her new husband.

Linda Grant De Pauw
Baptism of Fire
(Pasadena, Md.: The MINERVA Center, 1993)
ISBN 096348950X

When Maggie Steele graduates from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, gender prejudice has disappeared from memory. But war in space is a challenge for all young officers. If you’ve longed for a woman hero in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower, you will love this swashbuckling tale.

Margaret Truman
Murder at the Pentagon
(Fawcett Books, 1994)
ISBN: 0449219402

A brilliant doctor is murdered, and a desert madman gains the means to kill millions. These two events ultimately draw Major Margit Falk, a helicopter pilot and Pentagon lawyer, into betrayal and danger–and into the heart of the Pentagon’s most precarious pet project.

Jane Yolen
The Books of Great Alt
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(St Martins Press, 1997)
ISBN: 031286258X

This acclaimed and well-beloved feminist classic introduces readers to White Jenna, born in sorrow, raised among warrior women, and taught to call forth her shadow sister under the light of the moon.