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An Unexpected Ally: A Greek Tale of Love, Revenge, and Redemption
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In this novel set during the archaic period of classical antiquity, Circe knows Odysseus must leave her soon. In her dreams and in ...Read Review
Athena’s Child
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Once a priestess of Athena, Medusa is cursed into her monstrous form after being defiled in the temple by Poseidon. She runs home ...Read Review
House of Odysseus
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In this second installment in the Songs of Penelope series, trouble comes yet again to Ithaca’s shores. Penelope must keep her head ...Read Review
The Armour of Light (UK) / The Armor of Light (US) (The Kingsbridge Novels, 5)
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New technology threatens workers’ jobs, war causes shocking food price inflation, hungry children depend on a free school meal. Welcome to 1792 in Kingsbridge, ...Read Review
Psyche and Eros
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There has been a marked trend in recent years for the retelling of Greek myths, Jennifer Saint’s Elektra and Madeline Miller’s ...Read Review
North Woods
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From the moment two forbidden lovers – the prospective wife of an abusive minister and a reported troublemaker she ironically met at church – flee ...Read Review
Herc
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Where, when? We’re never told. But as familiar names – Zeus, Hera, Apollo – begin to appear, we understand that we are in the ...Read Review
Where Waters Meet
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This is Zhang Ling’s first novel in English, following her earlier successes written in Chinese and translated. Like her protagonist Yuan Feng, ...Read Review
Medusa’s Sisters
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“Even monsters have families” is the appropriate tagline for this reimagining of the story of the Gorgons, told primarily by Medusa’s often ...Read Review
Horses of Fire: A Novel of Troy
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Horses of Fire is the first collaborative adult novel of two young adult authors, Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinson, writing as A. D. ...Read Review