Tam Lin

Novels:

Go to amazon.comBeauty by Sherri S. Tepper, Bantam Spectra, 1992- Beauty lives in 14th century England, daughter of a nobleman and a Faery mother (who has abandoned her to return to Faery). Little does she know that she carries the hope and salvation of the world within her. Her adventures take her far into the future, into imaginary lands, and into Faery itself. Along the way the origins of the tales of Sleeping Beauty, Tam Lin/Thomas the Rhymer, Cinderella, Snow White, and the Frog Prince are revealed.

Go to amazon.comFire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones, Greenwillow, 2002- As she packs to return to college, 19-year-old Polly stares at a photo hanging over her bed. Suddenly, she begins to have memories of things she knows have never happened...memories of someone named Tom Lynn. What do these strange memories mean?

Go to amazon.comThe Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope, Houghton Mifflin, 2001- It is 1558 and Kate has been banished to an isolated castle in the Elvenwood of Derbyshire known as Perilous Gard. Here, she becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a Holy well, a missing child, an underground world, and human sacrifice.

Go to amazon.comQueen of Spells by Dahlov Zorach Ipcar, Viking Press, 1973- In July 1878 11-year-old Janet meets a strange young man named Tom Linn, said to be an outlaw and a horse thief. When she next meets him, it is seven years later and he looks not a day older. They fall in love, but when Janet becomes pregnant, Tom again disappears and she is pressured to marry another to save her reputation. Where does Tom keep vanishing to and why does he never seem to age?

Go to amazon.comTam Lin by Pamela Dean, Tor Books, 1992- The plot of Tam Lin set in the late 1960s at a small liberal arts college in Minnesota. This novel follows Janet, her roommates, and her fellow English and Classics majors through four years of college as they struggle with schoolwork, love, and things supernatural.

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