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46) The Aeneid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the adventures of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who helped found Rome, after the fall of Troy.
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).
Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him....
Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him....
52) Seven forges
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Captain Merros Dulver is the first in many lifetimes to find a path beyond the great mountains known as the Seven Forges and encounter, at last, the half-forgotten race who live there. And it would appear that they were expecting him. As he returns home, bringing an entourage of strangers with him, he starts to wonder whether his discovery has been such a good thing. For the gods of this lost race are the gods of war, and their memories of that far-off...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Retells, in easy text, of the Sheriff of Nottingham's plot to hold an archery contest in order to capture the outlaw Robin Hood, but Robin and his band of merry men arrive in disguise with a plan of their own.
54) A Faust book
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
ix, 77 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
56 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Jewish stories set in Jerusalem, adapted from the Talmud and Midrash, Hasidic sources, and oral tradition, with origins in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Spain, Italy, and Greece.
58) Whittington
Author
Language
English
Description
Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story.
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Myths are a rich source of history. Even before myths were written down, people told and retold the stories of the gods and goddesses of their homeland. Learn the history of the South Pacific myths, as well as their deeper meaning, from the desert tribes of Australia to New Zealand's origin of the coconut.
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