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In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones...
2) I dig
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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"At the beach, a boy digs a tunnel where he finds a crab, starfish, and best of all, a dog"--
3) Amber & Clay
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto...
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Eye of Isis volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Two Alexandrian fishermen come across a horrifying sight - the body of a skeleton floating upright at the bottom of the sea, anchored in place by a cement weight around his feet. In Alexandria's rough-and-tumble construction trade they call that 'being fitted with a pair of Rhakotis sandals' and what's worse, he's the second such victim in two years. Queen Cleopatra is busy rebuilding her city after the Alexandrian War and these murders are not to...
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[2023]
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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...
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Madeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best ... You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"From the bestselling author of Gates of Fire comes an historical epic about the early years of the Roman Empire. A Man at Arms is a Western set in Jerusalem and the Sinai desert in the first century AD, a few years after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. The villains are the Romans. They're in pursuit of a courier bearing an incendiary letter from Paul the Apostle. For agents of Rome, this letter represents an existential threat that will propagate...
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Sandorf Passage
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Because something is happening, in the distance, approaching from above and below. Weird holes are appearing. I'm often drawn by a void. And that might be the reason I have started to speak. So says the Scatterwind, the narrator in Robert Perisic's latest novel, A Cat at the Edge of the World. Defying the realms of time and space, the Scatterwind is a knowing presence throughout this story, which spans from the time of ancient Sparta to our contemporary...
10) Dark tide
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Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
83 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kai and his stepfather must stop an ancient predator before the tide turns."--
11) Sistersong
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Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, the curl of the grass. King Cador knew this once, but now the land has turned from him, calling instead to his three children. Riva can cure others, but can't seem to heal her own deep scars. Keyne battles to be accepted for who he truly is--the king's son. And Sinne dreams of seeing the world, of finding adventure. All three fear...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The Battle of Salamis : Persian King Xerxes stands over the smoking ruins of Athens, an army of slaves at his back. Come to destroy, once and for all, everything that the city stands for, he stares pitilessly at the hopelessly outnumbered Greeks. Veteran soldier Themistocles cannot push the Persians back by force on land, and so he does so by stealth at sea. Over three long days, the greatest naval battle of the ancient world will unfold, a bloody...
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English
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A slave with a secret past is forced to serve the exiled prince she loves as he risks his life in a desperate effort to forge a political marriage with a powerful and deadly princess.
As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom. She becomes an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the...
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Addison Cooke volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
364 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Addison and the team travel to Paris, Istanbul, Cyprus, and beyond to stop the enemy Malazar and find the treasured Ring of Destiny"--
15) The new kingdom
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021.
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407 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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English
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Cast out of Lahun, Hui, once the ruler-in-waiting of the great city, seeks vengeance for the death of his father, swearing his allegiance to the enemies of Egypt and learning the art of war to fight to become the master of a new kingdom.
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