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  Gemma Doyle Trilogy: Book 2

  Rebel Angels

  by Libba Bray

  Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy—spending time with her friends in the city, attending balls in fancy gowns with plunging necklines, and dallying with the handsome Lord Denby's son, Simon Middleton. Yet amid these distractions, her visions intensify—the visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom something horrific has happened that only the realms can explain. The lure is... (more)
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  Gemma Doyle Trilogy: Book 3

  The Sweet Far Thing

  by Libba Bray

  It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her... (more)
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  Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 2

  The Sea of Monsters

  by Rick Riordan

  Percy Jackson's seventh-grade year has been surprisingly quiet. Not a single monster has set foot on his New York prep-school campus. But when an innocent game of dodgeball among Percy and his classmates turns into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, things get . . . well, ugly. And the unexpected arrival of Percy's friend Annabeth brings more bad news: the magical borders that protect Camp... (more)
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  Crimes by Moonlight

  by Charlaine Harris

  An all-new mystery anthology edited and featuring a new story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits and contributes an all-new story-set in her Sookie Stackhouse universe-to this anthology from the Mystery Writers of America. Other authors include: Steve Brewer Dana... (more)
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  Waiting for Odysseus

  by Clemence McLaren

  From the moment she first sees the cocky warrior Odysseus, Penelope knows that one day she will be his wife. What she doesn't know is that Odysseus's pride will take him away from her to fight the Trojan War. Penelope must become an expert at waiting, and it is this waiting that proves to be the ultimate test of her courage, patience -- and love. The sorceress Circe has been waiting for Odysseus to land on her... (more)
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  The Masks of God: Book 4

  Creative Mythology

  by Joseph Campbell

  This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology.
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  World Landmark Series: Book 40

  ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES, THE, World Landmark W-40

  by Gerald Gottlieb

  From worldcat.org: "The adventures of Ulysses from his encounter with the wild boar through the Trojan War and the odyssey home to Ithaca."
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  The Wanderings of Odysseus Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

  by Rosemary Sutcliffe

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  Frozen In Time

  by Marie Symeou

  Set in Ancient Greece, a time when the spirit world of gods and goddesses and other immortal beings bleeds into the world of mortals, Frozen in Time is a rich vampire tale of betrayal and revenge, and the eternal longing for blood and love.After the death of his wife in childbirth, Philip, grief stricken and suicidal, joins the army of his half brother Alexander the Great, with whom he has a very uneasy... (more)
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  Charlie Madigan: Book 4

  Shadows Before the Sun

  by Kelly Gay

  After filling out mountains of paperwork, Detective Charlie Madigan sets out for a death-defying trip into heavenly Elysia to rescue her partner Hank and bring the siren home. Of course, she doesn’t expect to leave behind an all out siren revolution or return home to find that jinn crime boss, Grigori Tennin, has begun a massive search for the divine being, Ahkneri. Tennin’s tactics set off a chain reaction that... (more)
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  The Changeling Prince

  by Vivian Vande Velde

  Welland was less than a slave. Slaves are human, and he was wolf,   allowed to assume human form only when it suited the sorceress Daria. Daria kept an army of changelings -- mostly wolf but some lynx or weasel, a bear or two, and at least one rat. She used them to hunt and kill. And sometimes to pretend to be human, so she could pretend to be a lady. Weiland hated the lie almost as much as he hated the truth.... (more)
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  The Dawn Palace

  The Story of Medea

  by H. M. Hoover

  Having been trained in supernatural knowledge, thirteen-year-old Medea finds herself in a unique position to help when the Greek hero Jason comes to her father's kingdom in search of the Golden Fleece.
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  Priestesses

  by Norma Lorre Goodrich

  Drawing on the works of Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, Sigmund Freud, Sir James Frazier and other scholars, as well as her own extensive research, Norma Lorre Goodrich brings to light the powerful yet neglected women--priestesses from Asia Minor to Ireland--who influenced the formation of western civilization.
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  Trickster Makes This World

  Mischief, Myth, and Art

  by Lewis Hyde

  Trickster Makes This World solidifies Lewis Hyde's reputation as, in Robert Bly's words, "the most subtle, thorough, and brilliant mythologist we now have." In it, Hyde now brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first revisits the old stories--Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among... (more)
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  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  This revised volume follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Contains the original foreword by the author and the historic court ruling to remove the federal ban. It also contains page references to the first American edition of 1934.
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  Gemma Doyle Trilogy: Book 1

  A Great and Terrible Beauty

  by Libba Bray

  It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India, to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her.... (more)