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1) The Iliad
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English
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One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2023 • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year 2023 • One of Atlantic's Best Books of 2023 • One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • One of New Statesman's 2023 Books of the Year • One of Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections of 2023
The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our
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Step-up adventures volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
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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...
6) The Odyssey
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English
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A verse translation of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," in which Odysseus struggles to make his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War; includes an extensive introduction, three maps, a selected bibliography, and a pronouncing glossary.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1989
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English
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From Achilles's heel to the sword of Damocles, Western culture teems with allusions from the rich heritage of classical literature, and this new edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, the first updating since Sir Paul Harvey's original edition of 1937, provides the key to these works and the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations that produced them.
9) Secrecy
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a single recent year the U.S. classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress. Depending on whom you ask, government secrecy is either the key to victory in our struggle against terrorism or our Achilles heel. Counter-terrorist intelligence officers recall with fury how a newspaper article directly led to the loss of information that cound have avoided a terrorist killing.
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Iliad can justly be called the world's greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns, the heroism and treachery of its combatants unmatched in song and story. Driven by fierce passions and loyalties, men and gods battle to a devastating conclusion. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved...
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Humanix Books
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English
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Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America -- and the world. Conservative commentator Horowitz presents a White House battle plan to halt the Democrats' march to extinguish the values conservatives hold dear. He details President Trump's likely moves, and explores the opportunities he will have to reshape the American...
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Radiant emperor volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
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English
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"For more than forty years, the English poet, wit, and troublemaker Christopher Logue (1926-2011) was at work on what came to be regarded as his masterpiece: an idiosyncratic contemporary version of Homer's Iliad. Beginning with the publication of his first volume in 1981 and celebrated as "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books), Logue's project was distinct from conventional translation, for it set out to be a...
19) Mortal gods
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Goddess war volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The escalating war between the gods takes Athena and Cassandra across the globe, searching for lost gods, old enemies, and the great warrior, Achilles, and although their alliance is fragile, they must find a way to work together or all is lost.
20) Flights
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
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