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"In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece--the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen--the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, Galatea is locked away under the constant supervision...
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Wilderwood volume 2
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Orbit
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English
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"Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control. But Neve has an ally--though it's one she'd rather never have to speak to again--the rogue king Solmir. Solmir wants to bring an end to the Shadowlands...
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Fury unbound volume 1
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Nightqueen Enterprises LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
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331 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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English
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Stonewater Kingdom volume 1
Pub. Date
2025
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English
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"Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams....
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This poison heart volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"-- Provided by publisher.
Would you tempt even the most dangerous fate to save the ones you love? Briseis has one chance to save her mother, but she'll need to do the impossible: find the last fragment of the deadly Absyrtus Heart. To locate the missing piece, she must turn to the blood relatives she's never known, learn about their...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a delightful compendium of very short fiction and comics that celebrate the joy and absurdity of the human experience. It is often said that the best things in life come in small packages--anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight. From the original Greek financial...
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Dark Olympus volume 9
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English
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"Tender Cruelty is an occasionally dark and very spicy book that contains pregnancy, abuse (child, historical, referenced briefly throughout), violence, blood, murder, and explicit sex"-- Provided by publisher.
"I was his wife. His lover. His sworn enemy. The ice queen to Olympus's most hated king. The barrier that's protected Olympus for generations has fallen. The enemy's breached the gates and the Thirteen are scrambling to protect themselves,...
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Running Wild Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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396 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Passion. Horror. Betrayal. From the national bestselling author of the Lily Wong thriller series comes a stunningly original (F. Paul Wilson) dark journey into Brazilian mysticism about a desperate mother who rises from the slums to embrace Quimbanda magic amid her quest for the ultimate revenge. Across forty years, three continents, and a past incident in 1560 France, Serafina Olegario tests the boundaries of love, power, and corruption as she fights...
9) Temping fate
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
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279 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Ilana Newhouse was having a hard time finding a summer job until she discovered the Divine Relief Temp Agency, but when she reported for her first day as a temp she finds herself substituting for the Greek mythological goddesses, the Fates, who spin, measure, and cut the life-threads of every human being.
10) Styxx: #24
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Dark-Hunter volume 24
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
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viii, 837 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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As the twin to Acheron, the hero who saved the human race centuries ago, Styxx hasn't always been on his brother's side. But with an Atlantean goddess bent on setting wrongs right, how do you find a way back from the darkness that wants to consume the entire world? One that wants to start by devouring your very soul?
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Chronicles of Castellane volume 2
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English
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Kel Saren, body double to Prince Conor, and Lin Caster, a healer with dangerous powers, navigate a web of royal conspiracies, criminal underworlds, and dark magic in Castellane, where their choices between love, loyalty, and betrayal could cost them everything, including their lives.
12) The poppy war
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Poppy war volume 1
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English
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A war orphan rises from her humble beginnings to become a powerful military commander, and perhaps her country's only hope for survival.
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Inheritance volume 1-3.5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
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1462 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.
14) Gold
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Flux
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 online resource (393 pages)
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English
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Brianna, descendant of an Irish demi-goddess, flees to Ireland to escape the Sons of Killian, who have throughout history hunted her ancestors. A rift in time sends Brianna back to a time before the feud began, and now she is falling in love with a younger version of Austen, her sworn enemy in her own time. Together they will have to defeat the army of mythical beasts being raised by the Sons, or else lose one another forever.
15) The cruel dawn
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Vallendor volume 2
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English
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Contains content warnings.
"Kaivara Megidrail was once worshipped as the Grand Defender of Vallendor--until betrayal, punishment, and exile left her Diminished. Now, the realm she abandoned teeters on the edge of collapse. Monsters roam free. Gods whisper in shadows. And one man--Jadon Wake, prince, blacksmith, liar--may be the key to her salvation--or her final ruin. Haunted by the past, hunted by divine enemies, and armed with only fractured Memories...
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False goddess volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
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viii, 417 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Binsa is a "living goddess," chosen by the gods to dispense both mercy and punishment from her place on the Scarlet Throne. But her reign hides a deadly secret. Rather than channeling the wisdom of an immortal deity, she harbors a demon. But now her priests are growing suspicious. When a new girl, Medha, is selected to take over her position, Binsa and her demon strike a deal: To magnify his power and help her wrest control from the priests, she...
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Celestial Kingdom volume 2.5
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English
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Collecting nine enchanting stories set in the Immortal Realm--a world of gods, magic and legendary creatures--the beautifully illustrated volume, told from the perspectives of multiple characters, is filled with magic, mythology, friendship and love.
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Earthbound volume 2
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Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014
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364 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Fallen goddess Tavia Michaels must use her growing powers to stop a virus from wiping the Earth away, all while deciding to be with either her eternal lover, Logan, or her former best friend, Benson.
Tavia Michaels will again have to make a choice about who to be with even as she tries to stop the virus that is destroying the world and uncover the truth about the two Earthbound organizations that have her tangled up in their webs.
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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311 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"For fans of Ariadne, a spellbinding debut fantasy about a human who gets trapped with the god of Autumn, who brings with him life-threatening danger and a forbidden romance. Under the right circumstances, would even a god fall? Tirne is one of four humans rigorously selected to usher the turn of the seasons into the mortal world. Every year, she escorts the taciturn god Autumn between the godly and human realms. Autumn's seasonal stay among mortals...
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Edda of burdens volume 3
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Tor
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Beautiful Cathoair, now an immortal warrior angel, has been called back to the city of Eiledon to raise his son -- Muire's son as well -- cast up on shore as an infant. It is seemingly a quiet life. But deadly danger approaches: the evil goddess Heythe, who engineered the death of Valdyrgard, has travelled forward in time on her rainbow steed seeking revenge.

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