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The Holy Land

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NEW!  Brethren 
Author: Rovyn Young

An epic adventure of the Knights Templar

NEW!   Crusade
Author: Rovyn Young

Sequel to Brethren.

BEING RELEASED JANUARY 22 09
The Fall of the Templars
Author: Rovyn Young

Final volume in the Brethren Trilogy.

Crusader's Lady
Author: Lynna Banning

Soraya al-Din is a woman bent on revenge.  Disguised as a boy, nothing will keep her from her quarry.  Marc de Valery is a war-weary knight who has one last duty--to protect King Richard on his perilous journey back to England.  Soraya sets out with Marc with danger following close on their footsteps.

The Templar
Author: Paul Doherty; Buy New: $35.50

The first volume in a new series charting the history of the Templars

Siege of Heaven
Author: Tom Harper; Buy New: $17.79

The violence and religious hypocrisy of the First Crusade.. 

The Tilecutter's Penny
Author: Caiseal Mor

It is the time of Richard the Lion Heart, the Crusades and the mysterious Knights Templar.  Donal, an Irish chieftain, and Robert, his Norman lord, travel to the Holy Land as their fathers did before them. But before Donal leaves, he gives his wife Eilish a token - half of a penny broken by the tilecutter. Should she receive the other half, she will know he is dead.  As Donal and Robert become entwined in the dangerous intrigues of the Knights Templar in the Holy Land, Eilish must deal with intrigues at home.  NMJ

House of War
Author: Judith Tarr

Alternate history of Richard the Lionheart's reign over Jerusalem

The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Author: Julia Navarro, Andrew Hurley; Buy New: $23.00

A brotherhood of men who have had their tongues cut out guard the secret
of the Shroud of Turin down through the centuries, the historical story
alternates with a modern day mystery about the shroud.

The Last Templar
Author: Raymond Khoury; Buy New: $24.95

As the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, a
young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escape
carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand
Master. Available as audiobook.

Deus Lo Volt!
Author: Evan S. Connell; Buy New: $13.65

An often irritatingly written effusive history of the Crusades narrated by a crusader

Queen of Swords
Author: Judith Tarr;

A Frankish woman goes to the Holy Land to find her crusader brother in the early 1100's.  Strong female character only one of this novel's plusses.  A non-supernatural forbear to Tarr's later novel about King John.  NH   NLS RC 45613

The Book of Saladin
Author: Tariq Ali; Buy New: $11.86

A rich, teeming chronicle set in 12th century Cairo, Damascus, and
Jerusalem

Blood Red Horse
Author: K. M. Grant; Buy New: $7.95

A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers
and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against
Saladin's armies during the Third Crusades. 

White Rose of Night
Author: Mel Keegan;

In 12th century England a young man becomes the squire and lover of a
Saxon knight and accompanies him on Crusade to the Holy Land.

Kingdom of Heaven
Author: Ridley Scott;

The bastard son of a Frankish knight goes on crusade.  See Movies.

Crossed
Author: Nicole Galland; Buy New: $10.85

Novel of the Fourth Crusade.

0142300349 The Templar Trilogy
Author: Jack Whyte
Knights of the Black and White
Author: Jack Whyte

Book 1 of the Templar Trilogy.

Standard of Honor
Author: Jack Whyte; Buy New: $17.13

Book 2 of the Templar Trilogy.

The Book of the Lion
Author: Michael Cadnum; Buy New: $6.99

After his master, a maker of coins for the king, is brutally punished
for alleged cheating, seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself traveling
to the Holy Land as squire to a knight on his way to join Richard the
Lionheart.


Widow of Jerusalem
Author: Alan Gordon;

While travelling with his wife and child, Theophilos recounts a story from the Third Crusade, involving a dwarf jester,
Crusaders, Assassins, and the beautiful queen around which they all revolve. 

Shield of Three Lions
Author: Pamela Kaufman; Buy New: $11.86

Richard the Lion hearted falls in love with a girl disguised as a boy while on crusade to the Holy Land.

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