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Burning chambers volume 1
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English
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"Circe France, 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever. For Piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need Minou's help if he is to stay alive."--
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Great Courses volume 26
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English
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Unpack the complexity of Ulysses by looking at three of its episodes: Hades (episode 6), Nausicaa (episode 13), and Circe (episode 15)-three of the most moving and compelling chapters in the novel. By studying these three episodes, you'll gain a sense of how the book as a whole forms a crucial portrait of Irish identity.
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Under the starry sky of Kassos Island, located in the Aegean Sea, an old skimmer tells his grandson his many adventures around the Mediterranean. This old pirate, Electryon, tells the child his ancient odyssey over the Tyrrhenian Sea, including a particularly strange event, experienced in the region of Campania. After a thrilling shipwreck, Electryon and his friend Calomos will be received by a strange hostess: the mysterious Circe…
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Bajo la bóveda estrellada de la isla de Kasos, situada en el mar Egeo, un viejo pirata narra a su nieto sus múltiples aventuras alrededor del Mediterráneo. El viejo bucanero, Electrión, relata al niño sus antiguas odiseas por el mar Tirreno, entre ellas una peripecia particularmente extraña que vivió en la región de Campania. Tras un palpitante naufragio, Electrión y su amigo Calomos serán acogidos por una extraña anfitriona: la misteriosa...
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This first volume of Bernard Evslin's award-winning series introduces the monsters, demons, gods, and heroes of Greek mythology
Athena, wise and powerful daughter of Zeus, is the most feared of all the goddesses. Poseidon, the "earth shaker," rules the sea with his thunderous wrath. Each wants to control Olympus absolutely. Obsessed with destroying Poseidon, Athena summons her crows by day and owls by night to spy on his vast water realm. The...
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The strange book of Enoch, the potion of Circe, and the sonnets of Shakespeare all herald the return of an ancient evil, and Father Sam Stone, an Anglican priest and recovering alcoholic, finds himself called in to investigate a supposed case of reincarnation, but finds himself confronting an evil being from the depths of time. He must turn private detective in order to save a young girls sanity and discover the nature of the supernatural threat.
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Wonder Woman is grateful for her Lasso of Truth, which helps her defeat her enemies. When she works to stop the villain Circe, she tries to find a peaceful solution, putting safety first. And when she partners with Batgirl and Supergirl, she appreciates their ideas and talents. Wonder Woman is respectful! DC Super Heroes and bright illustrations bring the terms and ideas from the Six Pillars of Character Education to life in this picture book all...
88) Protectress
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Protectress is a hybrid poetry-prose novella offering a risky take on the legend of Medusa. With stunning economy of words and a delicate hand, Protectress provokes us to think about the feminist identity and the power of compassion. Readers who fell deeply for Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey, Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, Madeleine Miller's Circe, Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven, Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of Beowulf,...
89) Hades's Promise
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Therese never expected to find herself in Circe's battlefield again, and this time she fights for things more important than her life. Before Therese and Thanatos can come to terms with the uncertain future of their unborn twins, Poseidon is attacked and both his wife and trident are stolen. Therese is forced to deliver her babies in the midst of an all-out war with enemies more powerful than the Olympians.
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Español
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Esta colección de doce relatos reúne dioses, reyes, héroes, magas y hechiceras de la mitología de la Grecia Antigua, combinando fantasía y realidad, por medio de la elaborada prosa de la reconocida y premiada escritora mexicana María García Esperón.⍾Las inolvidables y clásicas aventuras de Heracles, Medea, Jasón, Circe, Dédalo, entre otros, se abordan desde una nueva perspectiva, en la que la autora imagina un mundo, la Atlántida, donde...
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TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Jason finds that Circe's island may be neither as unpopulated nor as welcoming as it seemed. While Atalanta finds herself in a battle for the Argonauts' lives, the various forces ranged against our heroes begin to draw a mysterious net around them!
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Seis niños descubren que tienen los mismos poderes que algunos personajes de la mitología, ya que son sus bis-bis-bis-bisnietos. Por eso, deben asistir a la escuela de la maga Circe, en la Isla de Eos. Pero las clases son un poco extrañas y la Isla esconde muchos secretos…
En este episodio... Ha llegado la hora de salir a buscar a la mandrágora, la criaturilla mágica que el terrible Coleccionista está intentando capturar. Pero… ¡los Seis...
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St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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From stories that take you to the stars, to stories that span into other times and realms, to stories set in the magical now, Reclaim the Stars takes the Latin American diaspora to places fantastical and out of this world.
Follow princesses warring in space, haunting ghost stories in Argentina, mermaids off the coast of the Caribbean, swamps that whisper secrets, and many more realms explored and unexplored; this stunning collection
94) Wendy, darling
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When Peter Pan returns, taking her daughter Jane instead of her, Wendy must follow Peter back to Neverland and rescue Jane--and finally face the darkness at the heart of the island.
95) El viaje de Argo
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Seis niños descubren que tienen los mismos poderes que algunos personajes de la mitología, ya que son sus bis-bis-bis-bisnietos. Por eso, deben asistir a la escuela de la maga Circe, en la Isla de Eos. Pero las clases son un poco extrañas y la Isla esconde muchos secretos…
En este episodio... Tras haber descubierto la existencia del extravagante Equipo Quimera, ¡es imposible resistir a la tentación de conocer cuál será su próxima misión!...
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In a Los Angeles that is something like ours-but in which magic has become an integral part of society-P.I. Turner Cronyn and a beautiful woman named Astraea Scales investigate the theft of Big Al (the Triton)'s conch shell horn, which not only plays beautiful music at the Triton Club, but also has magical properties that could inundate greater L.A. And the villain appears to be the last of the surviving race of Sirens (of Circe fame), who still wants...
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For over two thousand years, readers have delighted in Ovid's playful eloquence; his influence on other writers has ranged from Dante and Chaucer to Shakespeare and Milton. This selection of 30 stories from the verse translation by F. A. Wright of Ovid's famous work, The Metamorphoses, does full justice to the poet's elegance and wit. All of the tales involve a form of metamorphosis, or transformation, and are peopled by the gods, demigods, and mortals...
98) Crowded Vol. 3
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Fired and ditched by Charlie, Vita sets off in hot pursuit of her former client and some answers. But Charlie's not alone. She's hired a brand new bodyguard, Circe, unaware she's a killer who has been stalking Charlie since her crowdfunded assassination campaign began.
As this catastrophic throuple cat-and-mouses its way across America, feelings and knives and secrets will come out, including who started Charlie's Reapr campaign and why everyone...
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TidalWave Productions
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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There is a line of evil creatures with a vendetta against the 10th Muse. Cronus, Circe and Sonnet have conjured a new villainess to the mix. Meet Justice and she is after the Muse and her friends. All this to try to bring back 10th Muse's classic foe Medusa as well as a the frightening Charybdis.