{"product_id":"9780981563619","title":"When Women Were Warriors Book I","description":"Winner, 2010 EPIC Ebook Award for fiction in the Mainstream category.\u003cp\u003e\"Breathtakingly gorgeous writing ... a multi-layered tale of such depth, breadth and insight that it was very nearly a spiritual experience...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...reminds me of Le Guin, of Cecelia Holland, and something of Rosemary Sutcliff... It made me feel as I did when I was a child reading authors like those... Once again I was in a magical place...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from a review by Charles Ferguson on Amazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...there's no ring of power or glowing sword of specialness; the magic, like the tone of the book, is quiet. It feels real.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from a blog review on livejournal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen she was a child, the author of When Women Were Warriors happily identified with all the male heroes she read about in stories that began, \"Once upon a time, a young man went out to seek his fortune.\" But she would have been delighted to discover even one story like that with a female protagonist. Since she never did find the story she was looking for all those years ago, she decided to write it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Book I of the trilogy, Tamras arrives in Merin's house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin's house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...Both men and women of all persuasions seem to love these books... Very rare. Bravo, Bravo, Bravo!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Think Beowulf--only comprehensible and with girls.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--from a review on the blog, The Rainbow Reader, by Baxter Clare Trautman, author of The River Within\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shield Maiden Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48388180967664,"sku":"9780981563619","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780981563619_p0.jpg?v=1768408825","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780981563619","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}