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Presents the cycle of stories about Penelope, wife of Odysseus, through the eyes of the twelve maids hanged for disloyalty to Odysseus in his absence.

Ragnarok, the story of the end of the world, is told through the eyes of a young girl who, evacuated to the countryside during the Battle of Britain, finds a book of ancient Norse myths that she shares with the reader and relates to her own life and experiences of war.

A power-hungry Washington bureaucrat sends the survivors of the first expedition back into the alien pyramidal device sent by the invading Krin to dominate Earth, which hurtles them into the world of the Norse gods.

A retelling of the legend of the Trojan War chronicles the exploits of Aeneas, the Lord of the Silver Bow, a powerful warrior known as Helikaon to his friends, as he engages Argurious, a warrior of Agamemnon, in a battle to the death.

Married at a tender age to the Spartan king Menelaus, the beautiful Helen bears him a daughter and anticipates a passionless marriage before falling in love with the Trojan prince Paris, with whom she flees to Troy with devastating consequences.

Desperate to save her kingdom and resurrect her husband, Queen Cleopatra bargains with the warrior goddess Sekhmet for Antony’s soul and is transformed into a shape-shifting vampire bent on vengeance against those who have wronged her family.

Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids, finds his peaceful life in Arizona shattered by the arrival of an angry Celtic god who wants Atticus’s magical sword, forcing Atticus to call upon some unlikely allies for help.

A tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, “Ransom” is a retelling of one of the most famous stories in all of literature—Achilles’s slaughter and desecration of Hector, and Priam’s attempt to ransom his son’s body in Homer’s “The Iliad.”

A brilliant and beguiling reimagining of Homer’s classic story about the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy.

In a retelling of an ancient Celtic myth about Angus, the god of love, youth, and beauty and a trickster who turns one’s romantic dreams upside down, five young men named Angus parallel the god’s story as they search for true love..

A retelling of the legend of Achilles follows Patroclus and Achilles, the golden son of King Peleus, as they lay siege to Troy after Helen of Sparta is kidnapped—a cause that tests their friendship and forces them to make the ultimate sacrifice.

The twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the 21st century, and they’re crammed together in a London townhouse. They’ve had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ. More disturbingly, their powers are waning. Just as they did on Mount Olympus, they quarrel a lot and do each other mischief.

Gates of Fire is a depiction of one man’s indoctrination into the Spartan way of life and death, and of the legendary men and women who gave the culture an immortal gravity. Culminating in the electrifying and horrifying epic battle, Gates of Fire weaves history, mystery, and heartbreaking romance into a literary page-turner that brings the Homeric tradition into the twenty-first century.

After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.

Tolkien’s retellings of the Norse legends of Sigurd, the dragon slayer and blood-brother of the Niflungs, and Gudrâun, a Niflung forced to marry Attila the Hun who murders her brothers.

Recounts the adventures of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who helped found Rome, after the fall of Troy.

A translation of the epic poem retells the story of Odysseus’s ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

An epic poem set during the Trojan War, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.