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Author
Series
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The first book in an epic new series following the life and adventures of Odysseus, Valerio Massimo Manfredi's masterful new novel renders the extraordinary world of ancient Greece in his own unique way"--
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During nine months of captivity, Kate Winters has survived a jealous goddess, a vengeful Titan and a pregnancy she never asked for. Now the Queen of the Gods wants her unborn child, and Kate can't stop her--until the King of the Titans offers a deal. In exchange for her loyalty and devotion, the King of the Titans will spare humanity and let Kate keep her child. Yet even if Kate agrees, he'll destroy Henry, her mother and the rest of council. And...
Author
Series
Olympus bound volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
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....
45) Olympus bound
Author
Series
Olympus bound volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 498 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Summer in New York, but a dark time for Selene: she's lost her home and the man she loves. A cult hungry for ancient power has kidnapped her father and targeted her friends. Now Selene must face the past she's been running from-- a past that stretches back millennia, to when the faithful called her Huntress. Moon Goddess. Artemis.
Author
Series
Golden apple novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 349 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Atalanta, the abandoned daughter of the king of Pagasae, disguises herself as a man to win a place on the journey to search for the Golden Fleece, but once she is discovered, she is left in the land of Colchis and forced to make a terrible choice.
47) The burning maze
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.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Since her husband King Agamemnon left ancient Mycenae to sail with his army for Troy, Clytemnestra rules along with her lover Aegisthus. Together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return. Clytemnestra reveals how her husband deceived her eldest daughter Iphigeneia with a promise of marriage to Achilles, only to sacrifice her because that is what he was told would make the winds blow in his favor and take him to Troy. Agamemnon...
49) Lovely war
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, is...
50) The immortals
Author
Series
Olympus bound volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed ... those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years. But these days she's content to work in secret, defending the women of Manhattan from the evils of men. She's reclusive, stubborn, and deeply unfriendly to everyone but her dog. But when a woman's mutilated body washes up in Riverside Park wearing a laurel wreath, Selene finds that she can no longer hide in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. An unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis, who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands, upends the life she has worked so hard to build. Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus and if Daphne cannot find them, the gods' waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend...
52) Medusa
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
207 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Exiled to a far-flung island, Medusa has little company except for the snakes adorning her head instead of hair until a beautiful boy named Perseus arrives, disrupting her lonely existence and unleashing desire, love, and betrayal.
Medusa has been exiled to a far-flung island by the whims of the gods. She has little company except the snakes that adorn her head instead of hair. When a charmed, beautiful boy called Perseus arrives on the island, her...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
"For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of even older artifacts--tools of war--dating back to the Bronze...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dora Blake is a talented jewelry designer who lives under the thumb of her suspicious and odious uncle, who is running her late parents' beloved shop of antiquities into the ground. When he begins acting erratically after a mysterious Greek vase is delivered and locked in the basement, Dora enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar, who (unbeknownst to her) sees the vase as an opportunity to unlock his academic future. Dora...
Author
Series
Disney villains volume 10
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The myth has been told for centuries: Brothers Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades waged a years-long war against their father Cronus and his tyrannical Titans. Upon their mighty victory, Zeus split the world into three. For himself, he claimed the Sky and what fell below it. To his brother Poseidon, he assigned dominion over the Sea. And his oldest brother, Hades, would rule the Underworld. While Hades tries to make the best of a lonely situation, eternity...
56) Las doncellas
Author
Publisher
Negra Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
Español
Description
A sus treinta y seis años, Mariana intenta recuperarse de la pérdida de Sebastian, el gran amor de su vida, ahogado durante unas vacaciones en una isla griega. Ella trabaja en Londres como terapeuta, pero cuando su sobrina Zoe, la única familia que le queda, la llama desde Cambridge para contarle que Tara, su mejor amiga, ha sido brutalmente asesinada cerca de la residencia de estudiantes, decide acudir en su ayuda. Allí conoce a Fosca, un carismático...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 382 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth"--
Author
Series
Lore Olympus volume 4
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The rumor mill of Olympus is constantly churning, but Persephone and Hades are all anyone can talk about. With the constant gossip creating intense pressure on the pair, they decide to slow down their budding romance and focus on sorting out their own issues first. But that's easier said than done. Hades struggles to find support in his personal life, with Zeus trivializing his feelings and Minthe resorting to abusive patterns in their relationship....
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifty leading writers retell myths from around the world in this follow-up to the bestselling My mother she killed me, my father he ate me. "Icarus flies once more. Aztec jaguar gods again stalk the earth. An American soldier designs a new kind of Trojan horse--his cremains in a bullet. Here ... are your favorite mythological figures--Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus and Echo, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pygmalion and Galatea, even Argos, Odysseus's faithful...
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