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Author
Series
Myth-o-mania volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this modern version of Greek mythology, Hades explains how a jealous Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon and what really happened when Perseus went hunting for Medusa's head.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retells the story of the minotaur through the eyes of his fifteen-year-old sister, Ariadne, a lonely girl destined to become a goddess of the moon, and her new friend, Theseus, the son of Athens' king who was sent to Crete as a sacrifice to her misshapen brother.
3) Celtika
Author
Series
Merlin Codex volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Having participated in Jason's search for the Golden Fleece centuries earlier, Merlin encounters a haunted ship and realizes that Jason still seeks the sons who were stolen by the enchantress Medea.
Author
Series
Age of the seventh sun volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four young people risk their lives to save the world from a looming apocalypse in this captivating sequel to The Seventh Sun. ... Based on ancient Mesoamerican legends and mythology, The Jade Bones is a compelling and romantic adventure that builds to a heart-stopping climax"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The mysterious Red Fox Clan, a group of anarchists all donning fox masks, have threatened Castle Araluen and question Princess Cassandra and Madelyn's succession to the throne. Will they succeed in unseating Cassandra and Madelyn and take the throne for themselves?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
c1972.
Language
English
Description
To marry the woman he loves, Hercules must complete twelve challenging tasks Hercules, son of Zeus, is known as the greatest hero Greece has ever seen. But it takes more than a godly parent to create a hero. This is the tale of how one man becomes a hero and that hero becomes a god. Soon before Hercules's birth, Zeus, ruler of the gods, declares that his son will one day be the high king of Mycenae. When his jealous wife, Hera, tricks Zeus to ensure...
9) The siren
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to work as a Siren and lure strangers to their deaths after being rescued from drowning by the Ocean, Kahlen falls in love with a human and defies the rules of her service in order to follow her heart.
10) The seventh sun
Author
Series
Age of the seventh sun volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all of Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose blood controls the power of water, the old emperor's death...
11) Ransom
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the story of Priam's effort to claim the slain body of his son finds the grief-stricken Achilles striking out against Hector after the death of Patroclus during the siege of Troy, an act that results in a powerful confrontation.
Author
Series
Seven Kennings volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Enter an unforgettable world...one that is forever changed when an army of giants invades. The kingdom's only hope: the discovery of a magic that will call wondrous beasts to fight by the side of humankind"--
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
15) Medea
Author
Series
Delphic women volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Medea, Princess of Colchis, is a priestess of Hecate, Three Named, Lady of Phantoms. She is the custodian of the wood in which the Golden Fleece is hung. She alone can tame the giant serpent which guards the grove. And then Jason and his Argonauts come along, and she falls catastophically in love. She helps him steal the Golden Fleece ans sails with him to claim his throne. And that's when things go wrong... and she must attempt to reclaim her humanity...
Author
Series
The labors of Gen volume 2
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With the help of Castor and Pollux, seventeen-year-old Gen tries to fulfill her end of a bargain with the Olympian Empresses and bring them the legendary golden apples of Hesperides and the monstrous Cerberus while also avoiding war with neighboring Elysium.
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 5
Language
English
Description
Continues the undersea adventures of the intrepid young half-mermaid, who plunges into a scheme to reunite with her father.
18) Ariadne's web
Author
Series
Book of the gods volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Theseus is a young man sentenced to be sacrificed to the gods. Ariadne is deeply in love with him. She conspires to save him from his grisly fate, but doesn't count on Dionysus stepping in to complicate matters. With mythical beasts and whimsical gods confronting them at every turn, Ariadne and Theseus must find their way through a maze of events that are as twisted as they are dangerous.
19) Underworld
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Neptune tells Emily and her merman father and human mother to return to Brightport to try to make merpeople and humans work more closely together, Emily faces problems with old enemies, her new, half-merfolk friend Aaron, and a mystery related to a group of legendary lost sirens.
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