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Hopeless heroes volume 7
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Book 7 in the Hopeless Heroes series that takes readers on fun adventures back to Ancient Greece!
It could be Tim's last time in Ancient Greece, but instead of saying goodbye, he's busy trading song titles with Apollo, delivering a package to Narcissus, escaping from Hera and-
"Holy moly!"
-making a pig of himself at Circe's table. Meanwhile, his friends have forgotten who he is, so who will save him when it all goes wrong?
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In the cellar of a bookstore in the hidden, magical neighborhoods that thread all throughout Minneapolis, a support group for the Victims of That Bastard Magician Samson meets.Ghostly Kitty, who once jostled Samson, no longer possesses a physical form.Loquacious Lara, who missed his lack of interest in her words, no longer articulates anything.Eternal wanderer Mo, who couldn't take Samson where he wanted to go, has lost the ability to get anywhere...
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He wants to forget the past…
Having just survived a duel, Reese Taggart, has decided he needs a change of scenery. Remembering a sugarcane plantation he won in a long ago card game, he sets off on an adventure where he hopes he can outrun the demons of his past.
She wants to carve out a future…
Circe Hayhurst just wants to escape the reputation of her parents, find a man to love, settle down have children. She also wants to be respectable....
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Dead is-- volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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As the creepy little town of Nightshade prepares to celebrate its 200th anniversary-on Halloween, of course-many of its paranormal residents are receiving mysterious blackmail letters. Psychic teen Daisy Giordano and her sisters set out to find out who is behind the threats. But launching an investigation isn't easy for Daisy with her overprotective father watching her every move. Though she's is happy to have him back after the years he spent being...
8) All the Rage
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The latest Carina Quintana Mystery, from Kirkus Award winning author David Benson, has Carina facing her first homicide as Assistant Chief of the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida PD.When the body of a young woman washes up on the beach in front of a local luxury hotel, a little digging sets Carina on the trail of Rayce de Marco, an infant terrible of the high fashion world with mob ties and a penchant for private jets and the super-heated late night club scene...
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For Marc and his party, their current quest seems to drag on and on. Clearing the Labyrinth, defeating Circe, destroying Medusa, and more have become a grind. The main factor that keeps them going is that Zeus is keeping his promise by helping their levels shoot up.
Meanwhile, Marc's Safe Zone, Any Port, and the accompanying Safe Zone network continue expanding and growing. They keep him busy whenever he manages to get back home on breaks from the...
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Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.We publish every other month.Issue 143 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTIONThe Ghost Tenders of Chornobyl...
11) Scorpica
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A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born in this sweeping epic fantasy that's perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Circe.
Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world,...
12) Bad Blood
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In this "delightful urban fantasy", a PI's new client is a Greek god . . literally (Long and Short Reviews).
Tori Karacis's family line may trace back to a drunken liaison between the god Pan and one of the immortal gorgons. Or maybe it's just coincidence that her glance can, literally, stop men in their tracks . . .
While her fear of heights kept her out of the family aerobatic troupe, her extreme nosiness fits right in with her uncle's...
13) The Valkyrie
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From SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes a glorious, lyrical retelling of one of Norse mythology's greatest epics Brynhild is a Valkyrie: shieldmaiden of the Allfather, chooser of the slain. But now she too has fallen, flightless in her exile. Gudrun is a princess of Burgundy, a daughter of the Rhine, a prize for an invading king – a king whose brother Attila has other plans, and a dragon to call upon. And in the songs to be sung,...
14) Homer's odyssey
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Kingfisher
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[2022]
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English
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The Trojan War is over, and the battle-weary soldier Odysseus sets out for home. On his way Odysseus faces many dangers sent by the gods to test him. Will he outwit the one-eyed giant Cyclops, the cunning enchantress Circe, and the terrifying monsters Scylla and Charybdis? This dramatic retelling of Homer's epic story retains all the excitement of the original.
15) My death
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The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The narrator of this creepy but feministically delicious novella, an early 21st-century novelist decides to write the biography of Helen Ralston, an all-but-forgotten 20th-century novelist she has long admired. In the late 1920s, Helen studied painting with W.E. Logan. Logan painted her as Circe, and Helen painted herself as an island titled My Death. When they parted for good, both turned to writing. Willy became famous; Helen did not. The narrator...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate magic and magicians. No matter how modern or scientifically advanced our societies become, human beings remain perpetually enthralled by the idea of magic, from our daily superstitions to our choices of entertainment. Magic has long been a central subject of poetry, and the poems in this collection are evocative evidence that the poet's art depends on a form of wizardry--the...