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The Immortals

Jordanna Max Brodsky - Orbit
Format: Book

The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed ... those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years. But these days she's content to work in secret, defending the women of Manhattan from the evils of men. She's reclusive, stubborn, and deeply...
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The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel

Anne Fortier - Ballantine Books
Format: Book

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Juliet comes a mesmerizing novel about a young scholar who risks her reputation - and her life - on a thrilling journey to prove that the legendary warrior women known as the Amazons actually existed. Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert...
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American Gods: A Novel

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The storm was coming....Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed...
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Medea: A Delphic Woman Novel

Kerry Greenwood - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

Medea, Princess of Colchis, is a priestess of Hecate, Three Named, Lady of Phantoms. She is the custodian of the wood in which the Golden Fleece is hung. She alone can tame the giant serpent which guards the grove. And then Jason and his Argonauts come along, and she falls catastrophically...
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The Gospel of Loki

Joanne M. Harris - Saga Press
Format: Book

"A surprise from the author of Chocolat," New York Times bestselling author Joanne M. Harris, "this pacy adult fantasy is narrated by Loki, the Norse god of fire and mischief" (Vogue) .This novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse...
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The Song of Achilles: A Novel

Madeline Miller - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist ... .A book I could not put down." - Ann Patchett"Mary Renault lives again!" declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles,...
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House of Names: A Novel

Colm Toibin - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tibn comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling - and her children."I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins...
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ODY-C Volume 1

Matt Fraction - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

An eye-searing, mind-bending, gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer's Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars and the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia and her crew of warriors. The journey to Ithicaa begins HERE, by Matt Fraction...
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The Wicked The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act

Kieron Gillen - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead. The team behind critically thermonuclear floor-fillers Young Avengers and Phonogram reunite to start a new, ongoing, superhero fantasy with a beautiful, oversized issue.
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A Song for Ella Grey

David Almond - Delacorte Press, 2015.
Format: Book

Written in lyrical prose, this novel for fans of epic romances and mythology retellings explores themes of love, loss, fate, and destiny set against the dramatic and diverse backdrop of Northern England. David Almond, recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, a Printz...
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Antigoddess

Kendare Blake - Doherty Associates
Format: Print book

The Goddess War begins in Antigoddess, the first installment of the new series by acclaimed author of Anna Dressed in Blood, Kendare Blake.Old Gods never die ... Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like...
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The Siren

Kiera Cass - HarperTeen
Format: Print book

From Kiera Cass, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series, comes a captivating stand-alone fantasy romance.Kahlen is a Siren, bound to serve the Ocean by luring humans to watery graves with her voice, which is deadly to any human who hears it. Akinli is human - a kind,...
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Bull

David Elliott - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Much like Lin-Manuel Miranda did in Hamilton, the New York Times best-selling author David Elliott turns a classic on its head in form and approach, updating the timeless story of Theseus and the Minotaur. A rough, rowdy, and darkly comedic young adult retelling in verse,...
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The Shadow Behind the Stars

Rebecca Hahn - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Heed this warning, mortal: stay far away from the three sister Fates. For if they come to love you, they might bring about the end of the world ...

Chloe is the youngest. Hers are the fingers that choose the wool, that shape the thread, that begin it. The sun smiles upon her....
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Keepers of the Labyrinth

Erin E. Moulton - Philomel Books
Format: Print book

Courage is tested, myths come to life, and long-held secrets are revealed Lilith Bennette runs at midnight. She scales walls in the dark and climbs without a harness. She hopes that if she follows exactly in the steps of her strong air force pilot mother, she'll somehow figure out the mystery...
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The Keeper

Darragh Martin - Little Island Books
Format: Book

Ordinary books don't move. Ordinary books are quite happy waiting to be picked up. You could leave an ordinary book somewhere uncomfortable - at the bottom of a dark schoolbag or in the middle of a shop window - and it wouldn't dare budge, even if it had to sneeze. Nobody had told...
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The Monstrous Child

Francesca Simon - Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback

A stunning, operatic, epic drama, like no other. Meet Hel, an ordinary teenager - and goddess of the Underworld. Why is life so unfair? Hel tries to make the best of it, creating gleaming halls in her dark kingdom and welcoming the dead who she is forced to host for eternity. Until eternity...
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The Trials of Apollo Book One The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

"After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. He must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor"--
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The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids."...
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The Red Pyramid

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research...
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Print book

Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers.One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother claimed...
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The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Paperback

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: Lightning Thief, The
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Odd and the Frost Giants

Neil Gaiman - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back.In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and hes had some very bad luck His father perished...
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