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A woman photojournalist investigates reports of "animal people" in her town. She finds them after being attacked in a slum and saved by a taxi driver who is one of the people. He introduces her to the world of shape-shifting individuals with animal blood and magical powers who live on the edge of society.
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Chava is a golem, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Pretending to be human, they are just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold, travels...
5) Chase me
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"The secrets she's uncovering will be his to keep... Centuries ago, when their ship crashed to earth, paranormals of all types settled secretly into our world, quietly going about their business with humans none the wiser. Self-ruling and careful to stay below the radar, all is threatened when Valkyrie archaeologist Lorin Schlessinger and her werewolf geologist partner Gabe Lupinsky inadvertently draw evil attention to Earth and its treasured natural...
6) Medusa
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Myth of monsters ; 1
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"A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever"--
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"[A] suspenseful trip through the rarely seen darker strata of complex, contemporary Greece." -Publishers Weekly
Saint John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece's eastern Aegean island of Patmos. Today, on the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years.
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In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure-a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness-but also one steered by implacable prophecy. The story...
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In The Bull from the Sea, the story of Theseus resumes with the hero's return from Knossos. In the wake of his father's suicide, Athens is now Theseus's to rule. With his close friend Pirithoos, Theseus sets out for the land of the Amazons, falling in love with their beautiful leader, Hippolyta. Her boldness and sense of honor match his own, but though they're happy and bear a son, tragedy lies ahead. The Athenians mistrust the foreign Hippolyta,...
11) Lilith: a novel
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"Banished forever from Paradise for refusing to submit to Adam’s will, Lilith, endowed with wisdom from the Tree of Knowledge, finds her quest for justice driving her through history where she finally understands what must be done to correct the wrong done to women—and all humankind—at the beginning of time."--
12) Celtika
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Merlin Codex ; 1
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Centuries before he meets Arthur, Merlin wanders the earth, eternally young, a traveler on the path of magic and learning. During his journeys, he encounters Jason and joins his search for the Golden Fleece. It is a decision that will cost him dear...
Hundreds of years later, Merlin hears of a screaming ship in a northern lake and divines that it is the Argo...that Jason still screams out for his sons, stolen by the enchantress Medea and thought...
13) Crota
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Sheriff Skip Harding is called out to investigate a double homicide unlike any he has seen before. The bodies are torn to pieces in the woods.
14) Leaving Eden
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Leaving Eden brilliantly brings to life that watershed moment in our history when man, and woman, turned their backs on the most ancient of laws in order to strike out in independence. Told from the point of view young Na'amah, Adam's daughter by his first wife, Lilith, it tells of the passing of the ancient Goddess and the birth of the new God.
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"The Lost Sisterhood takes on historical myth--the warrior women called the Amazons--and shows us they were not mythical, but a real band of beleaguered but brave priestesses-in-training who banded together to rescue their kidnapped companions. While their desperate trek unfolds in the past, we follow Diana, a modern-day scholar who has always been fascinated by the Amazons, as she embarks on a trek of her own. Led by enigmatic Middle Easterner Nick...
19) Weight
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The Myth of Atlas and Heracles retold and performed by Dick Hill and Susie Breck. Weight turns the familiar on its head to show us ourselves in a new light.
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