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Retells a part of the Odyssey in which Ithaca, his wife, Penelope, and their son, Telemachus, are desperately warding off the men who want to marry her. Then a visit from a mysterious stranger gives Telemachus the courage to confront the suitors, and to search for his long-lost father.
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"April 8th. According to the hideous driver's license my father, Zeus, saddled me with when he changed me from the awesome god Apollo to the pathetic mortal Lester, that's my new birthday. The same day the emperors Caligula and Commodus plan to attack Camp Jupiter, the training ground for Roman demigods. Oh, and did I mention it's also the blood moon, when an evil king intends to unleash his army of the undead upon us, too? And the guest of honor...
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Olympians volume 10
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Retells in graphic novel format the stories from Greek mythology featuring Hermes.
"Born in a cave to a self-banished mother, clever, mischievous, unrelenting Hermes is a handful from his first day in the world. From infancy, when he bewitches fifty cows and bends them to his will to play a joke on his older half-brother Apollo, to his adolescence and adulthood when he becomes father to the equally mischievous Pan, Hermes's story is wildly entertaining...
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Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? Lester's demigod friends at Camp Jupiter just helped him survive attacks from bloodthirsty ghouls, an evil Roman king and his army of the undead, and the lethal emperors Caligula and Commodus. Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's...
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Goddess girls. Main series volume 2
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Despite the warnings of her friends at Mount Olympus Academy, Persephone befriends bad-boy Hades, but following her mother's advice to "go along to get along" complicates her relationships with all of them.
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Hanged in an annual sacrificial ritual to Poseidon, seventeen-year-old oracle Leto awakens on an island inhibited by Melantho, a strange immoral girl with oceanic powers, who tells Leto the only way to break Poseidon's curse is to return to Ithaca and kill the prince.
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Olympians volume 9
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Retells in graphic novel format the stories from Greek mythology featuring Artemis, goddess of the hunt.
35) Greek myths
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From Icarus's legendary flight to Orpheus's trip to the underworld,this edition introduces young readers to classic Greek myths.
36) Cruel seduction
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Dark Olympus novels volume 5
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"Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now--even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet. Two can play the seduction game, however, and Hephaestus is all too happy to put his...
37) The lost hero
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Heroes of Olympus volume 1
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Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
39) Starcrossed
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When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle.
40) Pallas the pal
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Goddess girls. Main series volume 21
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Pallas, the daughter of Triton and messenger of the sea, enrolls at Mount Olympus Academy.