Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2023., Adult, Flatiron Books Call No: NEW Fic Sai Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. But even then, she is a survivor. Raised by a mother bear under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows up wild and free, with just one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns, it will be her undoing. Although she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta yearns for adventure. When Artemis offers her the chance to fight in her name alongside the Argonauts, the fiercest band of warriors the world has ever seen, Atalanta seizes it. The Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece is filled with impossible challenges, but Atalanta proves herself equal to the men she fights alongside. As she is swept into a passionate affair, in defiance of Artemis's warning, she begins to question the goddess's true intentions. Can Atalanta carve out her own legendary place in a world of men, while staying true to her heart?
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2011., Adult, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Immortals Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this epic tale of vengeance and destiny, power-mad King Hyperion threatens to destroy all of humanity on his maniacal quest to obtain the ultimate weapon - the legendary Epirus Bow that gives the power to unleash war on both Heaven and Earth. But Theseus, a heroic young villager chosen by the gods, rises up to stop Hyperion's brutal rampage. With supernatural help from the beautiful oracle Phaedra, Theseus embraces his destiny and leads a fierce band of warriors.
![Immortals [DVD] (2011) Directed by Tarsem Singh Dhandwar](/Library/images/~imageCT81306.JPG "Immortals [DVD] (2011) Directed by Tarsem Singh Dhandwar")
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2014., General, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Call No: QWF Fic For Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself before vanishing without a trace. Diana's colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse. Traveling to North Africa, Diana teams up with Nick Barran, an enigmatic Middle Eastern guide, and begins deciphering an unusual inscription.
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2011., Entertainment One Call No: DVD Fic Medea Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: To win back his kingdom, Jason must enlist the help of Medea, a powerful sorceress. But when Jason scorns her for another woman, she unleashes a firestorm of revenge.
![Medea [DVD] (1969). Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini](/Library/images/~imageCT81609.JPG "Medea [DVD] (1969). Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini")
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-- William Shakespeare's A Midsummer night's dream.c1999., General, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD SHK Fic Midsummer (1999) Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two pairs of star-crossed lovers, a troop of inept amateur actors, a feuding pair of supernatural sprites and a love potion gone awry all come together in an enchanted moonlit forest.
![A midsummer night's dream [DVD] (1999). Directed by Michael Hoffman.](/Library/images/~imageCT72446.JPG "A midsummer night's dream [DVD] (1999). Directed by Michael Hoffman.")
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By Simmons, Dan2005., EOS Call No: Fic Sim Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Achilles and Hector lay seige to the home of the gods, inadvertently triggering a massive conflict between humanity and such powerful beings as Setebos, Prospero, and Caliban.
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2005., Knopf Call No: Fic Atw Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Myths series (Toronto, Ont.)
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2019., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic Had Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mark Haddon's novel begins with a harrowing plane crash: Maja, the pregnant wife of the unimaginably wealthy Philippe, is killed, but their daughter, Angelique, survives. Philippe's obsession with the girl's safety morphs into something sinister and grotesque. A young man named Darius, visiting Philippe with a business proposition, encounters Angelique and intuits their secret--he decides to rescue her, but the attempt goes awry.
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c2012., Adult, Ecco Call No: Fic Mil Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.
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2023., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic Hay Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene's temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge--on the young woman. Punished for Poseidon's actions, Medusa is forever transformed. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze will turn any living creature to stone. Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look, Medusa condemns herself to a life of solitude. Until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon.
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