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61) The goddess test
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--is not revealed until it's too late to recant.
62) Weight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
This is a beautiful myth, wonderfully retold by Jeanette Winterston. The love story between Atlas' mother (the earth) and his father (the sea) is pure poetry. And the ending was beautifully told with the twist of Laika at Atlas's side.
63) Medusa
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Exiled to a far-flung island, Medusa has little company except for the snakes adorning her head instead of hair until a beautiful boy named Perseus arrives, distrupting her lonely existence and unleashing desire, love, and betrayal.
Author
Series
Olympians volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Formats
Description
Recounts the stories of the many heroes who sought and won the approval and patronage of Hera, the Queen of the Gods, including the story of Heracles.
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Description
As a human/god offspring, Zephyr Mourning is destined for a life of servitude but when she uses a forbidden dark power to kill the minor god who murdered her sister she is sent to Tartarus, where she discovers that she may be the Nyx, a dark goddess prophesied to change the balance of power.
Author
Series
Olympians volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
A latest entry in the best-selling series focuses on the goddess of love and combines accessible graphic illustrations with thoroughly researched storytelling to recount her dramatic birth from the sea foam, her role in the Trojan War and more.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is and finds out how far her loyalty to her people will go.
69) Orpheus Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
When sixteen-year-old, mythology-obsessed Raya and her true love, Sarah, are sent from their conservative Texas town to a re-education camp, Raya assumes the role of Orpheus to save them.
70) Antigoddess
Author
Series
Goddess war volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Athena and Hermes' search for the cause of their unexpected, life-threatening illnesses leads them to Cassandra, a former prophetess, who may be key to a war started by Hera and other Olympians who have become corrupt anti-gods determined to destroy their rivals.
Author
Series
Tales of elemental spirits volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Changelings, gryphons, and gods get in the way of us mortals who are struggling to find someone to fall in love with, something interesting to do, somewhere to run to"--
73) Fury
Author
Series
Fury trilogy (Elizabeth Miles) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
After 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.
74) The odyssey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
Presents a graphic novel retelling of Homer's epic poem.
Author
Pub. Date
p2001
Description
In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the gold-haired winged ram, which can be procured in Colchis. It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest by order of King Pelias for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly. The story is of great antiquity - it was current in the time of Homer.
Author
Series
Princesses of myth volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Still longing for adventure, Princess Helen of Sparta maintains her disguise as a boy to join her unsuspecting brothers as part of the crew of the Argo, the ship commanded by Prince Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"The ruthless King Pelias has set his young nephew Jason a seemingly impossible task - to bring him the fabled Golden Fleece. Only then can Jason reclaim the kingdom that is rightfully his. Jason and his crew of Argonauts must face a host of fearsome monsters and devious Gods before they can complete their mission"--
Author
Series
A Starcrossed novel volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
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
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The year is 1944, and Harry Black, a London firefighter battling the blazes caused by constant bombing, awakes in the hospital to learn that his soldier brother, Ellis, has been killed. In the delirium of his wounded state, Harry's mind blurs the distinctions between reality of war-torn London and the myth of Orpheus. Driven by visions of Ellis and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry sets off on a journey which will lead him deep beneath the city....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced off in an epic battle that rewrote history--the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer's legendary account of this decade-long ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this thoroughly researched and artfully rendered graphic novel, renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of Homer's epic. Dynamic illustrations...