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[2005] Canongate
First American Edition.
xv, 199 pages ; 21 cm.
2007. Faber and Faber
ix, 82 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
2008 Canongate Books
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2006. ISIS
Large print edition.
xii, 136 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Description
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses.
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[2018] Doubleday
First United States edition.
293 pages ; 25 cm
2018 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
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2019. Center Point Large Print
Center Point Large Print edition.
430 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. The ancient city of Troy has withstood a decade under siege of the powerful Greek army, who continue to wage bloody war over a stolen...
3) Antigoddess
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Goddess war volume 1
2013
First Edition.
336 pages ; 21 cm.
2014. Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
First trade paperback edition.
352 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Old Gods never die ... or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her shin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health. Desperately seeking the cause of their slow, miserable deaths, Athena and Hermes travel the world, gathering allies and discovering enemies both new and old. Their search leads them to Cassandra--an...
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Kingmaker chronicles volume 1
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[2016] Sourcebooks Casablanca
441 pages ; 18 cm
2016 Sourcebooks
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"Catalia "Cat" Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods--and her homicidal mother--have saddled her with. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever. Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. He wants her as a powerful weapon...
5) Lore
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2021. Wydawnnictwo Jaguar
Wydanie pierwsze.
569 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
Dla fanów serii Percy Jacksona oraz "Igrzysk śmierci" Alexandra Bracken przedstawia "Lore"! Idealna mieszkanka greckiej mitologii oraz śmiercionośnych łowów, gdzie zabijasz albo zostajesz zabitym. Co siedem lat rozpoczyna się Agon. W ramach kary dziewięć bogów zostaje zesłanych na ziemię, aby doświadczyć nieśmiertelności. W tym czasie ludzie i półbogowie polują na nich w nadziei na przejęcie ich mocy oraz nieśmiertelności. Lore...
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Olympus bound volume 1
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2016. Orbit
452 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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...
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Athenian mysteries volume 7
2017. Soho Crime
329 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Greece, 545 BC: It is illegal to die on the sacred isle of Delos. It's also illegal to give birth there. Yet when murder is committed, the only available detective to solve the crime is the priestess Diotima, and she is heavily pregnant. Delos is the holy birthplace of the divine twins Apollo and Artemis, and it is an island in crisis. Not only has murder tainted the holy sanctuary, but there are about a thousand Athenian troops on the island. The...
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Flavia Albia mysteries volume 1
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2013
First U.S. edition.
341 pages : map ; 25 cm.
2014. Minotaur Books
341 pages ; 21 cm.
[2013] AudioGO
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Working as a private informer in Rome during the reign of Domitian, Flavia Albia is hired to investigate a fatal accident, an investigation that turns sinister when her client dies under suspicious circumstances that place Flavia's reputation at stake.
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Warriors of Poseidon novels volume 7
2011. Berkley Sensation
Berkley Sensation mass-market edition.
316 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
The most unexpected of all allies to Poseidon's warriors has proven to be the fiercest-- Daniel, a vampire and Night Guild Mage. But even the strongest alliance can be destroyed when an 11,000-year-old desire is reborn.
10) Bull
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[2017] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
189 pages ; 22 cm
[2019] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
214 pages ; 21 cm
Description
David Elliott turns a classic on its head: this rough and rowdy retelling of the Minotaur myth in verse will have readers reevaluating one of mythology's most infamous monsters. Garnering six starred reviews, this update of the timeless story of Theseus and the Minotaur has been called zbeautifully clever,y za literary feast fit for the gods,y "powerful and engrossing," "irresistible, slick, and sharp," "a genre of its own," and "rude...crude, and...
11) Norse mythology
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[2017] W.W. Norton & Company
First Edition.
293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
2018. W.W. Norton & Company
301 pages ; 22 cm
[2017] Harper Audio
Unabridged.
6 audio discs (390 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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2017 HarperAudio
Unabridged
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2017 W. W. Norton & Company
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2017. Thorndike Press
Large Print edition.
331 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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2018. Large Print Press
Large print edition.
329 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Description
"Introducing an instant classic--master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths. Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high,...
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Troy trilogy volume 1
[2005] Del Rey Books
First edition.
476 pages : map ; 24 cm.
2006. Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Del Ray trade paperback edition.
476 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Description
A retelling of the legend of the Trojan War chronicles the exploits of Aeneas, the Lord of the Silver Bow, a powerful warrior known as Helikaon to his friends, including Odysseus, as he engages Argurious, a warrior of Agamemnon, in a battle to the death and falls in love with Andromache, the betrothed of Hektor.
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2006. Viking
611 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
[2006] Books on Tape
25 audio discs (30 hrs., 36 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2006] Penguin Audio
Unabridged.
25 audio discs (approximately 30 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Penguin Publishing Group
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Penguin Publishing Group
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Description
Acclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller.
The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's beauty, a visiting prince's passion, and a love that ended in tragedy.
Laden with doom, yet surprising...
The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's beauty, a visiting prince's passion, and a love that ended in tragedy.
Laden with doom, yet surprising...
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[2021] Ace
359 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this fierce, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse myth. Angrboda's story begins where most witch's tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to give him knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who...
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Delphic women novels volume 1
2013. Poisoned Pen Press
First U.S. Edition.
431 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
When she falls in love with Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and helps him steal the Golden Fleece, Medea, Princess of Colchis and priestess of Hecate, Thee Named, Lady of Phantoms, sails with him to claim his throne, but things turn tragically wrong and she must attempt to reclaim her humanity through abandonment, murder and grief.
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Loki novels volume 1
2015. Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
First Saga Press edition.
280 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The trickster god Loki describes the rise and fall of the gods of the Norse, detailing how he left Chaos to serve Odin until the fall of Asgard.
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[2021] Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First U.S. edition.
xiii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
[2021] Harper Audio
Unabridged.
7 audio discs (approximately 514 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2021 HarperAudio
Unabridged
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2021 HarperCollins
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2021 HarperCollins
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In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose...
18) Hunted
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Iron druid chronicles volume 6
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2013. Del Rey
Del Rey mass market edition.
xii, 384 pages ; 18 cm.
2013 Random House Worlds
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2013 Random House Worlds
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Description
Two-thousand-year-old druid Atticus O'Sullivan, Granuaile and the wolfhound Oberon race across modern-day Europe to try to escape the clutches of Olympian goddesses Artemis and Diana and the Norse god of mischief, Loki.
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[2021] Dutton
ix, 370 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships-but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta is a tale of secrets, love, and tragedy from the women behind mythology's most devastating war, the infamous Helen and her sister Klytemnestra"--
As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivaled beauty, they are the...
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Athenian novels (Conn Iggulden) volume 1
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2021. Pegasus Books, Ltd
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
443 pages ; 24 cm.
[2021] Recorded Books, Inc
Unabridged.
11 audio discs (14 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon ... Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army--swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals--have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious. Yet people soon forget that...