Josepha Sherman

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1955
  • Latest Book:
    May 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Mage Knight

4 - The Black Thorn Gambit (Mar-2004)

Prince of the Sidhe

1 - The Shattered Oath (Jun-1995)
2 - Forging the Runes (Aug-1996)

Multi-Author Series List

Bard's Tale

4 - The Chaos Gate (Apr-1994)

Endless Quest

36 - Song of the Dark Druid (Apr-1987)

Find Your Fate Junior: The Transformers

9 - The Invisibility Factor (Sep-1986)

Find Your Fate: Golden Girl

3 - Golden Girl and the Crystal of Doom (Jun-1986)

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

Through the Looking Glass (Dec-2004)

Highlander

8 - The Captive Soul (Aug-1998)

Paths of Doom

Land of Endless Night (May-2007)

The Secret of the Unicorn Queen

1 - Swept Away (Nov-1988)
5 - Dark Gods (Apr-1989)

Star Trek

Vulcan's Forge (Mar-1998)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Merlin's Kin: World Tales of the Heroic Magician

    Merlin: the strange, almost eerie magician who stands just to one side of the rest of humanity. Yet Merlin is not alone of his kind. He has kin in every corner of the world. For magicians are found among all peoples and in all cultures. In this colle...

  • Golden Girl and the Crystal of Doom

    Find Your Fate: Golden Girl - 3

  • The Invisibility Factor

    Find Your Fate Junior: The Transformers - 9

  • Song of the Dark Druid

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Endless Quest - 36

  • Vassilisa the Wise

    Based on an authentic Russian folk ballad, this action-adventure story pits a clever and courageous woman against Prince Vladimir of Russia. “The rich, layered watercolors reflect the story’s origins; costumes are striking and the decorative patt...

  • Swept Away

    The Secret of the Unicorn Queen - 1

  • Dark Gods

    The Secret of the Unicorn Queen - 5

  • The Shining Falcon

    Ljuba, the evil sorceress, plots to unleash dark forces over the world, while the exiled Maria, daughter of a betrayed lord, nurses the dying Prince of Kirtesk, formerly the shining falcon, back to health...

  • Horse of Flame



  • Child of Faerie, Child of Earth

    Percinet, half-human son of a queen of Faerie, falls in love with a mortal, the daughter of a medieval count, and leaves his realm of magic to defend her against her cruel stepmother, a secret sorceress...

  • A Strange and Ancient Name

    Hauberin, ruler of a Faerie princedom and the target of numerous plots, must search the world where his mother was born--a world where faeries are killed--for the key that will prevent a dying foe's curse...

  • Windleaf

  • Once upon a Galaxy

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Science fiction is all around us. Fantasy fiction is just as widely known in today's world of entertainment. But what few readers of science fiction and fantasy realize is that these stories of wizards and starships have much older roots in the world...

  • Gleaming Bright

  • The Chaos Gate

    Bard's Tale - 4

    THE PRODIGAL'S UNWILLING RETURN The Dark Elf Naitachal, once a Necromancer who gained power by depriving others of their life forces, is now happy Al in the more peaceful role of Bard. But shadows from his past linger. Naitachal's Dark Elf clan sees...

  • King's Son, Magic's Son

    Having won his Faerie love, Ailanna, at great peril to himself, young Aidan finds himself torn between a call to aid his embattled half-brother, the king, and a mighty oath sworn to the Lord of Faerie. Original....

  • Orphans of the Night

    Thirteen tales include the works of such authors as Jane Yolen, Mike Resnick, and Lawerence Watt-Evans and bring readers to the worlds of the hideous Sidhi-kur of Mongolia, the Njuggle demons of the Scottish lochs, and the German Doppelgangers....

  • The Shattered Oath

    Prince of the Sidhe - 1

    Ardagh Lithanial, a proud young Sidhe prince, becomes the target of his paranoid and suspicious brother, Eirithan, and is banished from his homeland to a hostile land that he must overcome in order to restore his name. Original....

  • Teacher's Pet

    in Chicks in Chainmail

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...



  • Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts

  • Forging the Runes

    Prince of the Sidhe - 2

    Banished from the world of humans after being framed, elven prince Ardagh struggles to find a place for himself and is called upon to defend Ireland against the evil magic of an Anglo-Saxon menace. Original....

  • A Song of Strange Revenge

    in Space Opera

    Twenty original science fiction tales based on the theme of music--by such authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles de Lint, and Gene Wolfe--include the story of a singer whose ear for music helps her fight crime. Original....

  • Urban Nightmares

    A collection of stories that focuses on modern urban folklore includes contributions by such authors as Mike Resnick, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert J. Sawyer, S. M. Stirling, Jody Lynn Nye, and Anne McCaffrey. Original....

  • Vulcan's Forge

    Star Trek

    Just over a year ago, Captain James T. Kirk was lost to the Nexus while saving the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-B from destruction. Aboard the science ship Intrepid II, Captain Spock, commanding some of his old crewmates, must face the loss of his closest ...

  • Son of Darkness

    IN THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS, DARKNESS ISN'T ALWAYS EVIL. As a curator at the American Museum of Art in New York City, Denise Sheridan protects the world's most precious artifacts. But her love of history has failed to prepare her for a demon unl...

  • The Captive Soul

    Highlander - 8

    THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE... He is Immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can die only if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Qui...

  • All I Need To Know I Learned From Xena

    In a time of ancient gods, warlords and kings, a Land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle. Xena: Warrior Princess. Gabrielle: Bard of Poteidaia. Theirs was a life of adventure. A life of roman...

  • Told Tales

  • Swordplay

    in Familiars

    KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * JODY LYNN NYE LAURA RESNICK * P. N. ELROD * VON JOCKS JEAN RABE * ANDRE NORTON * BILL MCcAY LAURA ANNE GILMAN * DIANE A. S. STUCKART GARY A. BRAUNBECK * SUSAN SIZEMORE JOSEPHA SHERMAN * JOHN HEIFERS MICHELLE WEST The...



  • Mightier Than the Sword

    in The Magic Shop

    SUSAN SIZEMORE * P. N. ELROD JODY LYNN NYE * INDIA EDGHILL LAURA RESNICK * ELIZABETH GILLIGAN MICHELLE WEST * BRADLEY H. SINOR JOSEPHA SHERMAN * BILL McCAY KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * MEL ODOM GARY A. BRAUNBECK * VON JOCKS ROSEMARY EDGHILL Eve...

  • The Black Thorn Gambit

    Mage Knight - 4

  • Through the Looking Glass

    Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

    Suddenly, Captain Dylan Hunt isn't himself.Our heroes were travelling in deep space, navigating the Andromeda through a maze of space anomalies and wormholes when a surprise attack by an unidentified fleet of ships forced them into a space anomaly th...

  • Jewish-American Folklore

    Someone once observed that A Jew is composed of 28 percent fear, 2 percent sugar, and 70 percent nerve. Certainly, the Jews have needed every bit of that nerve over centuries of persecution. The struggle and triumph of Jewishness, author Josepha Sher...

  • Rachel the Clever and Other Jewish Folktales

    American Bookseller Pick of the Lists

    Although the 46 tales in this collection are as varied as their origins, nearly all of these stories have been passed on by immigran...

  • A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore

    This anthology reveals the varieties of Jewish wisdom, cleverness, irony and humor through tales filled with allegories preaching humility and charity. -Publishers Weekly

  • Trickster Tales

    People of all ages love to watch the escapades of tricksters. In modern times, we watch Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote -- even Ace Ventura and Bart Simpson. But these contemporary characters have roots in antiquity. The trickster is a uni...

  • Merlin's Kin

    Merlin: the strange, almost eerie magician who stands just to one side of the rest of humanity. Yet Merlin is not alone of his kind. He has kin in every corner of the world. For magicians are found among all peoples and in all cultures. In this colle...

  • Land of Endless Night

    Paths of Doom

  • Magic Hoofbeats: Fantastic Horse Tales

    Lose yourself in the world of the equestrian with this unique, beautifully illustrated anthology of stories about magical, mystical and memorable horses. Bringing together stories from many different traditions and containing fascinating notes about ...



  • Storytelling

    Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably simila...

  • Magic Hoofbeats

  • Whose Legs Are Whose? A Tale from Mexico

  • Deep Water

    Shape Shifters Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat. While climbing over some rocks, she discovers a...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Josepha Sherman has published 43 books.

Josepha Sherman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Deep Water, was published in May 2018.

The first book by Josepha Sherman, Merlin's Kin: World Tales of the Heroic Magician, was published in January 1955.

Yes. Josepha Sherman has 2 series.
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