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Persephone the Phony

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Percy Jackson: The Complete Series (Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Rick Riordan

Etre un demi-dieu, ça peut être mortel ... Percy Jackson n'est pas un lycéen comme les autres. Sa prof d'histoire est en fait un monstre mythologique! Et les dieux du mont Olympe entrent dans sa vie, ici et maintenant, en plein New York. Ils l'accusent d'avoir volé l'éclair de Zeus. Dans cette succession de catastrophes, une seule bonne nouvelle : Percy se découvre peu à peu des pouvoirs extraordi

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Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess

George O'Connor · 80 pages

From the moment she emerged, fully grown, from the head of Zeus, Athena was one of the most complex Olympians. This graphic novel retells her many interwoven tales: how she killed Pallas, fought the Gigantes, aided Perseus, and cursed Arachne.

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Lore Olympus: Volume Two

Rachel Smythe · 368 pages

Persephone was ready to start a new life when she left the mortal realm for Olympus. However, she quickly discovered the dark side of her glamorous new home—from the relatively minor gossip threatening her reputation to a realm-shattering violation of her safety by the conceited Apollo—and she’s struggling to find her footing in the fast-moving realm of the gods. Hades is also off-balance, fightin

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Stop That Bull, Theseus!

Kate McMullan

In this modern version of Greek mythology, Hades, King of the Underworld, tells the true story of Theseus finding his way through the labyrinth to slay the Minotaur.

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The One-Eyed Giant

Mary Pope Osborne, Homer · 112 pages

Retells a part of the Odyssey in which King Odysseus fights the cyclops.

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Fantasy Lover

Sherrilyn Kenyon · 368 pages

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 loveslave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfil

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Warrior Rising

P.C. Cast · 346 pages

The Goddesses have had it with the Trojan War. So much devastation—all because of some silly male egos. The worst of the bunch is that cocky, handsome brute Achilles. But the only way to stop a man like Achilles is to distract him with something far more pleasurable than combat… Enter Kat, a modern girl from Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Goddesses transform her into a Trojan princess, having no doubt that

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The Immortals

Jordanna Max Brodsky · 474 pages

"A high quality contemporary fantasy novel that will appeal to a wide range of readers from American Gods to the kids who grew up reading Percy Jackson. 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

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My Life From Hell

Tellulah Darling · 414 pages

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Dreamless

Josephine Angelini · 500 pages

With help from her new friend Orion, seventeen-year-old Helen Hamilton descends into the Underworld in search of a way to break the Furies' blood curse and prevent the start of another Trojan War. With help from her new friend Orion, 17-year-old Helen Hamilton descends into the Underworld in search of a way to break the Furies' blood curse and prevent the start of another Trojan War. The plot con

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Girl, Goddess, Queen

Bea Fitzgerald · 464 pages

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Electric Idol

Katee Robert · 240 pages

In the ultra-modern city of Olympus, there's always a price to pay. Psyche Dimitriou knew she'd have to face Aphrodite's jealous rage eventually, but she never expected her literal heart to be at stake... or for Aphrodite's gorgeous son to be the one ordered to strike the killing blow. Eros has no problem shedding blood. Raised to be his mother's knife in the dark, he's been conditioned to acce

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Antigoddess

Kendare Blake · 336 pages

Athena and Hermes' search for the cause of their unexpected, life-threatening illnesses leads them to Cassandra, a former prophetess, who may be key to a war started by Hera and other Olympians who have become corrupt anti-gods determined to destroy their rivals.

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Helen of Sparta

Amalia Carosella

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Radiant Darkness

Emily Whitman

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The Tale of Troy: Retold from the Ancient Authors

Roger Lancelyn Green · 210 pages

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Flight of the Fire Thief

Terry Deary · 240 pages

Flight of the Fire Thief continues the hilarious fantastical adventures of Prometheus, the Greek demigod who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race. To escape the gods' revenge, Prometheus time-travels to Eden City, arriving in 1795. There he befriends a brave and resourceful twelve-year-old girl named Nell. Deary skillfully interweaves two plots, with the action jumping at a whir

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The Games Gods Play

Abigail Owen

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Persephone's Orchard

Molly Ringle

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Daughter of the Earth and Sky

Kaitlin Bevis · 208 pages

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Pandora Gets Jealous

Carolyn Hennesy · 272 pages

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide

Mary-Jane Knight

A handbook no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. This companion to the series comes complete with trading cards, full-color diagrams, and maps, all packaged in a handy manual with a crisp, magnetic flap enclosure.

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Alcestis

Katharine Beutner · 304 pages

In this vivid reimagining of a classical Greek myth, the eponymous Greek heroine Alcetis, known as the good wife because she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life, tells about her childhood, her marriage to the young king of Pherae, and what happened during the three days she spent in the underworld before being rescued by Heracles. Set in the world of Mycenaean Greece.

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