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  The Heroes of Olympus: Book 1

  The Lost Hero

  by Rick Riordan

  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, and his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea—except that everything seems very wrong.Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing... (more)
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  A Magic Shop Book: Book 5

  Juliet Dove, Queen of Love

  by Bruce Coville

  Shy Juliet Dove leaves Mr. Elives' magic shop with Helen of Troy's amulet--a virtual man magnet. Juliet doesn't know what she's got, but soon every boy in town is swoony for her. Yet, much as she'd like to lose all the unwanted attention, she can't: The amulet won't come off! A sidesplittingly funny, heartbreaking whirlwind of a book about the high cost of loving, from the award-winning author of My Teacher Is... (more)
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  CliffsNotes on Mythology

  by James Weigel Jr.

  This review of the myths from seven different cultures provides an overview of the stories that we live by, from ancient times to the present. The gods and their stories depict all the relationships in life and present a moral code of human conduct. These stories are also a map to understanding history. This CliffsNotes guide covers Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Greek, Roman, and Norse mythologies, as well... (more)
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  Legends of the Wolves: Book 1

  The Silver Wolf

  by Alice Borchardt

  Into decadent Rome of the Dark Ages comes Regeane, an enigmatic young woman distantly related to Charlemagne. But the blood she has inherited from her murdered father makes her much more than a child of royalty. Regeane is a shapeshifter--woman and wolf, hunter and hunted--possessed of preternatural agility and strength, primal memories extending back thousands of years, and senses so keen they can pierce the veil... (more)
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  Lusíadas, Os

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  Mythology

  Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

  by Edith Hamilton

  Edith Hamilton's MYTHOLOGY succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystones of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. We meet the Greek Gods on Olympus and Norse Gods on Valhalla. We follow the drama of the Trojan war and the wanderings of Odysseus. We hear the... (more)
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  Roman myths

  by Kathy Elgin

  A collection of beautifully illustrated myths from different parts of the world
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  Matching Wits With Venus

  by Therese Gilardi

  For centuries, Cupid has longed to be more than Venus’s arrow boy. When he’s sent to eliminate “Happily Ever After by Amelia”, the matchmaking business threatening Venus’s status as the goddess of love, Cupid decides to steal Amelia’s methods and make his own matches. While spying on Amelia, Cupid accidentally shoots himself with his magical arrow and falls in love with her. But bereaved Amelia doesn’t believe... (more)