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Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
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
Myth-o-mania volume 3
Language
English
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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.
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Series
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English
Description
In The Bull from the Sea, the story of Theseus resumes with the hero's return from Knossos. In the wake of his father's suicide, Athens is now Theseus's to rule. With his close friend Pirithoos, Theseus sets out for the land of the Amazons, falling in love with their beautiful leader, Hippolyta. Her boldness and sense of honor match his own, but though they're happy and bear a son, tragedy lies ahead. The Athenians mistrust the foreign Hippolyta,...
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
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.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
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Series
Heroes in training volume 12
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Perseus and the Olympians face off against the Monstrous Medusa in this Heroes in Training adventure.
Author
Series
Beasts of Olympus volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Having proven himself capable of caring for the mythical creatures that dwell on Olympus, eleven-year-old Demon is summoned by the great god Hades to the Underworld to tend to Cerberus, the three-headed dog Guardian of the Underworld, which has been beaten by Demon's nemesis, Heracles.
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A group of young Olympians prepare to rule the universe and defeat the Titans.
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Series
Language
English
Description
In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure-a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness-but also one steered by implacable prophecy. The story...
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Series
Pegasus series (Kate O'Hearn) volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Caught in the middle of an ancient power struggle, Emily and Pegasus must venture to Diamond Head volcano in Hawaii to track down the one thing that can save Olympus--before the Titans get there first.
11) Envy
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
High school junior Em researches Greek mythology in an effort to rid her Maine town of the returning, revenge-seeking Furies.
12) Siren's storm
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Strange things have been happening in seventeen-year-old Will's Long Island resort town, where his brother died last summer, but now their life-long summer friend, Gretchen, is in danger and the alluring, mysterious newcomer, Asia, may be involved.
13) Bull
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Language
English
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Description
A modern twist on the Theseus and Minotaur myth, told in verse.
14) Fury
Author
Series
Fury trilogy (Elizabeth Miles) volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When high school junior Emily hooks up with her best friend's boyfriend and football quarterback Chase's life spirals out of control, three mysterious Furies--paranormal creatures that often assume the form of beautiful women--come to town to make sure that Emily and Chase get what they deserve.
Author
Publisher
Square Fish/Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a reality TV retelling of the myth of the Minotaur, seventeen-year-old Ariadne fights to save her brother, Asterion, and make her own destiny in a world of celebrity, surveillance, and feigned authenticity.
16) Starcrossed
Author
Series
Starcrossed trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle.
Author
Series
Starcrossed trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
With help from her new friend Orion, seventeen-year-old Helen Hamilton descends into the Underworld in search of a way to break the Furies' blood curse and prevent the start of another Trojan War.
Author
Series
Myth-o-mania volume 7
Language
English
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Description
In this updated version of Greek mythology, Hades, King of the Underworld, tells the true story of Hercules and his twelve labors.
20) Outrun the wind
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Language
English
Description
"When Kahina, a Huntress of Artemis, encounters the legendary warrior Atalanta on a routine mission, a dangerous line is crossed and both girls learn that their actions have consequences and rules were made to be broken"--
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