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  Cupid

  A Tale of Love and Desire

  by Julius Lester

  This is the story of Cupid--the god responsible for heartache, sleepless nights, and all those silly love songs--finally getting his comeuppance. When the god of love falls in love himself, things are bound to get interesting. And when he crosses his mama, Venus, in the process . . . Well, things could get downright messy.      The much-lauded author of Pharaoh's Daughter and When Dad Killed Mom brings... (more)
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  Cupid and Psyche

  by M. Charlotte Craft, Kinuko Y. Craft

  Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared even by the gods themselves. Magically, Psyche finds herself in a magnificent castle fitted with sweet music, attentive servants, and a charming but invisiblehost. Soon she falls in love with this man she has never seen, but in a moment of doubt she betrays his trust. To win back his... (more)
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  Cupid and Psyche

  by Apuleius, M. G. Balme, James Morwood

  Curiosity is an evil master. A beautiful princess has a husband she can never see. He visits her only in the dead of night. When curiosity overcomes her, she discovers who he really is, only to be cruelly abandoned. Now Psyche must begin an impossible task: to find her husband, even descending to the depths of Hell in her search. But she has earned the wrath of Venus by rivalling her in beauty, and the vengeful... (more)
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  Fairy Tales: Book 2

  The Bride and the Beast

  by Teresa Medeiros

  Dear Reader, I'd been prowling the crumbling ruins of Castle Weyrcraig for so long that I could no longer remember if I was man or beast. Then one stormy night the superstitious Highlanders of Ballybliss decided to leave a helpless virgin bound to a stake in the castle courtyard to satisfy my insatiable appetites. My demands might strike terror in the hearts of men, but this bold beauty dared to defy me. After she... (more)
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  The Princess and the God (Laurel-Leaf Books)

  by Doris Orgel

  Told from the compelling point of view of Psyche herself, here is the intensely romantic story of a mortal princess, Psyche, and the god who loves her. Psyche is so beautiful that Cupid's mother, Venus, becomes jealous. She commands her son to inflame Psyche with love for a monster. Instead, Cupid falls instantly in love with Psyche, and he spirits her away to a magical fortress. But Psyche and Cupid will be... (more)
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  Psyche & Eros: The Lady and the Monster (A Greek Myth) (Graphic Universe)

  by Marie P. Croall

  In ancient Greece, a princess rises to a challenge: Psyche lives in the comfort of her parents' wealthy kingdom. But when her beauty draws the jealous anger of the powerful goddess Aphrodite, Psyche finds herself in great danger. She is taken away to an isolated mountain to marry a monster. Will Psyche find love after all with her mysterious new husband? Or will she fall prey to Aphrodite's revenge?
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  Before the Beast

  by Karen Fyke Kirchel

  Before there was a fairy tale about Beauty and the Beast, there was a myth about Cupid and Psyche. Their story first appeared in written form around AD 160 in The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius, although it existed centuries before in oral tradition. Before the Beast moves Psyche to Thrace, around the region of present-day Bulgaria and about the time of Celtic and Greek wars within Thrace (500 BC). This move allows... (more)
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  Dark Hunter: Book 0

  Fantasy Lover

  by Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't....And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day.As a love-slave, I knew everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all how to pleasure them. But when I was... (more)
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  The Tale of Cupid and Psyche: An Illustrated History

  by Sonia Cavicchioli

  Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who had three very beautiful daughters....It was only just possible to find words of praise for the elder two and to express the breath-taking loveliness of the youngest...was beyond all power of human speech. Every day thousands of her father's subjects came to gaze at her, foreigners too, and were so dumbfounded by the sight that they paid her the homage due to the... (more)