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Dark Olympus novels volume 3
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English
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"Achilles Kallis vowed that he'd do whatever it took to claw his way into Olympus's inner circle. Now that the former Ares is gone and the coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to both compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect the infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize...or for the sparks that fly when the three of them meet. Zeus may have decided Helen...
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"In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece—the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen—the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, Galatea is locked away under the constant...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"El mito de Hades y Perséfone nunca había sido tan sexy. Perséfone es una de las jóvenes más bellas y populares de Olimpo. No dispuesta a aceptar su destino como futura esposa del peligroso Zeus, será capaz de proponerle un pacto al mismísimo rey del Inframundo. Hades se ha pasado toda la vida en las sombras. La propuesta de Perséfone de tomar parte en una jugosa y ansiada venganza contra Zeus será excusa suficiente para salir de ellas....
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2017.
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English
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From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Toibin comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra--spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling--and her children... In House of Names, Colm Toibin brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. He brilliantly...
8) The game
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Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
2007
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Sent to a boisterous family gathering in Ireland by her overly strict grandmother, orphaned Hayley feels out of place until her unruly cousins include her in a special game involving travel through the mythosphere, the place where all the world's stories can be found, and where some secrets of her past are revealed.
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English
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"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...
11) Las mil naves
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Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Español
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A retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of its women follows the stories of a vigil-keeping Penelope, an Amazon princess rival of Achilles, and three goddesses whose feud sparks a tragic conflict.
12) Helen of Troy
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Margaret George breathes new life into the great Homeric tale by having Helen narrate her own story. Through her eyes and in her voice, we experience the young Helen's discovery of her divine origin and her terrifying beauty. While hardly more than a girl, Helen married the remote Spartan king Menelaus and bore him a daughter. By the age of twenty, the world's most beautiful woman was resigned to a passionless marriage--until she encountered the handsome...
13) The Penelopiad
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English
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The story of Odysseus' return to his home kingdom of Ithaca following an absence of twenty years is best known from Homer's Odyssey. Odysseus is said to have spent half of these years fighting the Trojan War and the other half wandering around the Aegean Sea, trying to get home. But what of his wife, Penelope? The author has chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged Maids.
14) Las doncellas
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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A sus treinta y seis anos, Mariana intenta recuperarse de la perdida 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 unica 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. Alli conoce a Fosca, un carismatico...
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Olympus bound volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"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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Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Aristophanes is inconsolable-his rival playwrights are hogging all the local attention, a pesky young wannabe poet won't leave him alone, his actors can't remember their lines, and his own festival sponsor seems to be conspiring against him, withholding direly needed funds for set design and, most importantly, giant phallus props. O woe, how can his latest comedy convince Athenian citizens to vote down another ten years of war against Sparta if they're...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill Bialosky Something terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced off in an epic battle that rewrote history--the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this decade-long ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this thoroughly researched and artfully rendered graphic novel, renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of Homer's epic.".
In a companion...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In this utterly transporting reimagining of Greek mythology, the god of desire is cursed to fall for a spirited young mortal woman, but if she looks upon his face they will be parted forever—an epic adventure and love story for the ages, sure to satisfy fans of Madeline Miller and V.E. Schwab Who said true love is a myth? A prophecy claims that Psyche, princess of Mycenae, will defeat a monster feared even by the gods. Rebelling against her society’s...
20) Play of shadows
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"On a stormy Chicago night, renowned semiotician Dr. Evan Wilding and his brother, River, who's back from an archaeological dig, reunite in a mystery. A package addressed to both of them contains a hand-drawn maze, an ancient Cretan coin, and a cryptic greeting: Let the game begin. The opening move is murder. In a downtown alley, a man has been found nearly cleaved in two, a symbol drawn on his forehead and a savage rip in his throat. Given the clues,...
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