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Trials of Apollo volume 1
Language
English
Description
"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor."--
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Lester's demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's...
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Series
Trials of Apollo volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lester, Leo, Calypso, and Meg ride the bronze dragon, Festus, to Indiana to seek the most dangerous Oracle, but must first face another evil Roman emperor.
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Language
English
Description
"The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene's temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge--on the young woman. Punished for Poseidon's actions, Medusa is...
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Greek god Apollo--cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos--and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor, as well as an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles, somewhere in the American Southwest. But the longer he stays mortal, the weaker he grows, and the less confident he is that he will be able to regain his place on Mount Olympus.
7) Ilium
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English
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Restored to life by the "gods," a race of beings who dwell on the heights of Olympos, 20th-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry travels back in time to observe the events of the Trojan War, as chronicled in Homer's epic poem. There, one of the gods recruits him in a secret war against her brother and sister deities.
8) Olympos
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English
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Achilles and Hector lay seige to the home of the gods, inadvertently triggering a massive conflict between humanity and such powerful beings as Setebos, Prospero, and Caliban.
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 4
Language
English
Description
"In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying"--
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Being immortal is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve Greek gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London town house–and are none too happy about it. Even more disturbing, their powers are waning.
For Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator), and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic), there’s no way out–until...
For Artemis (goddess of hunting, professional dog walker), Aphrodite (goddess of beauty, telephone sex operator), and Apollo (god of the sun, TV psychic), there’s no way out–until...
11) Atalanta
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. But even then, she is a survivor. Raised by a mother bear under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows up wild and free, with just one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns, it will be her undoing. Although she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta yearns for adventure. When Artemis offers her the chance...
13) Hera
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Betrayed by Zeus's ruthlessness after overthrowing her father, Hera questions her place as his wife and as a mother and seeks a path beyond endless violence in a retelling of the classic Greek myth"--
14) Her dark wings
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English
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Coping with the sudden death of her ex-best friend, eighteen-year-old Corey finds herself plunged into the Underworld, where she must contend with mythical beasts, her own burgeoning powers, and the arrogant, handsome Lord of the Dead.
15) Lovestruck
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Kali is a cupid, but she's the furthest thing from a pudgy, diaper-wearing baby anyone could imagine. ... As the immortal child of the god of love, she's been drafted to make unlucky-in-love humans fall for each other, but her heart's not in the job; she'd rather be a muse. That heart also belongs to Benicio, a mortal musician she was supposed to assign to a human girl, though she accidentally nicked herself with the arrow. Immortal matches aren't...
16) The just city
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager...
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At long last, the original story as Sherrilyn first wrote it. The novel that began the Dark-Hunter world that told the origins of Julian of Macedon, and set the stage for the introduction of the Dark-Hunters. This is writer's vision of the book she wrote after completing Night Pleasures, Night Play, Night Embrace and Dance With the Devil and was unable to sell them. Published for the first time in its entirety, this is the original manuscript Sherri...
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English
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A prophecy claims that Psyche, princess of Mycenae, will defeat a monster feared even by the gods. She spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to meet her destiny. When Psyche angers the love goddess Aphrodite, Eros, god of desire, is sent to deliver a cruel curse. When he pricks himself with the arrow intended for Psyche, Eros finds himself doomed to yearn for a woman who will be torn from him the moment their eyes meet. Thrown together...
Author
Series
Olympus bound volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself. Winter in New York: snow falls, lights twinkle, and a very disgruntled Selene DiSilva prowls the streets looking for prey. But when a dead body is discovered sprawled atop Wall Street's iconic Charging Bull statue, it's clear the NYPD can't solve the murder without help. The murder isn't just the work of another homicidal cult -- this time, someone's sacrificing the gods themselves....
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