Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other w...
Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, #4)
by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson isn’t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse. In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos’s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the...
Dirty Wings (Metamorphoses Trilogy, #2) (All Our Pretty Songs)
by Sarah McCarry
"In this retelling of the Persephone myth, an unlikely friendship develops between Cass, a teenaged runaway, and Maia, a piano prodigy imprisoned in the oppressive silence of her adoptive parents' house. When Cass frees Maia from her sheltered life and the hypnotic blue-eyed rocker Jason appears on the scene, an ancient evil is awakened"--
The legendary adventures of the Greek king's epic journey come to life in a modern retelling of The Odyssey that's "an unmitigated delight" (School Library Journal). In their ten-year siege of Troy, the Greeks claim victory thanks to the cunning wit of Ulysses, King of Ithaca, who devised the infamous Trojan Horse. Now, with the epic war finally finished, Ulysses sets sail for home-but his journey will be long and arduous. Having angered Poseidon, god of the sea, Ulysses and his men are thr...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Kennebec Large Print Perennial Favorites Collection) (Narrativa74, #11)
by Mark Twain
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’s faith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Ya...
AS HUMANS AND MONSTERS CLASH AND ROYAL BLOOD FLOWS, A NEW AGE WILL DAWN…Prince Alexander of Macedon has battled both men and monsters, but his final war will determine his fate…and the future of all mankind. While Macedon’s enemies close in from all corners of the earth, Alexander must fulfill one last prophecy that dictates only he—and he alone—can ensure humanity’s survival against the age of the deadly Spirit Eaters.As the threads of fate draw Alexander closer to his destiny, an exiled queen...
Tyrant's Tomb, The-The Trials of Apollo, Book Four (Trials of Apollo, #4)
by Rick Riordan
You will get to the Tiber alive. You will start to Jive.I am ApolloI will rememberThe former God Apollo, cast out by his father, Zeus, is having a pretty rough time of it.Well, for one thing, he's called Lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries.Though he and his friends (some of them) have emerged from the Burning Maze, rescued the Oracle and lived to fight another day, they can't escape the tragedy that has befallen them, or the terrible trials still to face.So,...
The Violin-maker's Daughter (The Violin-Maker's Daughter, #1)
by Sienna Pratt
The sequel to Daughter of Sparta thrusts warrior Daphne and her love interest, the Olympian god Apollo, into the middle of the Trojan War in an epic YA fantasy reimagining of Greek mythology.The Sparta you know will be gone forever on the bloody fields of Troy. A year after Daphne saved the powers of Olympus by defeating Nyx, the Goddess of Darkness, she's haunted by still-looming threats, her complicated feelings for the god Apollo, and the promise she made to the Olympian gods that she would h...
This ebook bundle features both Starcrossed and Dreamless, the first two books in the bestselling Starcrossed series by Josephine Angelini. Starcrossed: When shy, awkward Helen Hamilton sees Lucas Delos for the first time she thinks two things: the first, that he is the most ridiculously beautiful boy she has seen in her life; the second, that she wants to kill him with her bare hands. With an ancient curse making them loathe one another, Lucas and Helen have to keep their distance. But someti...
Did you just see a flash of lightning across the sky on a clear sunny day? It’s not from Mother Nature. It is most likely from Mason Grand, swoon-worthy demigod, one of Zeus’s descendants. Skylar Rome is supposed to be having the best summer ever before she heads off to college. Little did she know, her whole life was about to change while visiting her cousin. Nearly drowning at the beach due to unknown forces, one of the Grand brothers she’d just met, Mason, saves her life. Cool, collected, my...
Greek Mythology for Kids: From the Gods to the Titans (Children's Greek & Roman Myths)
by Baby Professor
