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By Zaczek, Iain1998., Collins & Brown Limited Call No: 813.54 Z13i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2008., Harcourt Call No: Fic Leg Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.--From amazon.com.
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2018., Custom House Call No: NEW Fic Per Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy. But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. . .
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2008., Adult, Doubleday Call No: NEW Fic Div Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, The Palace of Illusions gives new voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharat, as she weaves a vibrant interpretation of an ancient tale. -- Married to five royal husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom, Panchaali aids their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war. But she cannot deny her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna-or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy-as she is caught up in the ever-manipulating hands of fate.
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c2011., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: QWF Fic Luh Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 16th-century Hungary, the real-life Countess Elizabeth Bathory began to torture and kill over 600 servant girls so as to bathe in their blood. She believed this practice would render her beauty immortal; it certainly did her reputation. In the same style as THE HISTORIAN, this debut author mixes a contemporary story of a psychologist investigating a murder following Bathory's m.o., with diary excerpts from the Countess herself that tells the historical story.
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By Kitson, Bill2014., Accent Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: When former investigative reporter and TV correspondent Adam Bailey agrees to spend Christmas at Mulgrave Castle, he knows there is an ulterior motive behind the invitation. His old flame, Harriet, and her husband, Sir Anthony Rowe, want him to investigate the legend of an old family curse said to have claimed several victims amongst Sir Anthony's ancestors. If there is any truth in the tales of inherited insanity, it may be due to strike again. Once the house guests are assembled, heavy snow cuts the castle off from the outside world. When they sit down for breakfast on Christmas morning, none of them is aware that the curse has already claimed a new victim. With no let-up in the weather to enable help to arrive, Adam, aided by Harriet's sister, Eve Samuels, attempts to discover if the death is linked to the mysterious disappearances that have occurred over the centuries. But before long, further violence disrupts their enquiries. However, even those responsible for present-day crimes are powerless to resist the force of a far older evil, and a most unusual killer is at last unmasked.
![Silent as the grave [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76472.JPG "Silent as the grave [eBook]")
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2014., NLA Digital LLC Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: All of his life, Ash has been haunted by the ancient curse that killed his parents.From the cobweb-choked ruins of a lost city in the Amazon emerges a gold spider statue with flashing emerald eyes. If the legends are true, the gold spider has the power to erase the past . . . change the future . . . perhaps even grant eternal life. But touching the spider will steal your memories and then your life.For centuries, men have killed to possess the gold spider. Like the man who murdered Ash's parents. Now, the killer has returned, and Ash is trapped in the grip of the spider's curse.His only hope is Cleo, his embittered high-school sweetheart, now a highly-trained agent obsessed with tracking down the spider. But Cleo knows something she's not telling Ash about a million dollars in dirty cash, and the terrifying secret his parents died to keep.Can they solve the riddle of the gold spider before its deadly curse claims them next?.
![The Spider Thief [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76575.JPG "The Spider Thief [eBook]")
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By Winter, Guy2018., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Call No: SC MYS Fic Win Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three changelings will come, to shape Scotland; One from the Wayward Sisters, one from the Still Folk, and one from Man… The hale and hearty Tam O’Shanter pays no heed to the prophecies of old. Who cares what a bunch of haggard old crones forewarn, when his favourite pub has an empty seat waiting for him? It isn’t until the actions of a malevolent new coven threaten his own family that Tam is forced to take action. Three wicked witches, led by the beautiful but vile Cutty Sark, plan to make a dreadful sacrifice to change the fate of Scotland and kill Bonnie Prince Charlie, heir to the British throne. Their choice has fallen on Tam’s own son, Wee Tam. When the witches come for Tam’s family, he teams up with a group of boisterous and brave companions to try to break their spell and save Wee Tam from a horrible fate. This swashbuckling yarn takes the Tam O’Shanter of Robert Burns’ poem and gives him a new adventure full of magic, action and the best drink Scotland has to offer. In his quest to save one young boy, Tam may yet save his entire country.
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2023., Adult, House of Anansi Call No: IND Fic Nut Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past -- all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores. In a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Māori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. Tauhou is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea.
