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(Greek mythological character) Minotaur Fiction (Greek mythological character) Phaedra Fiction Crete (Greece) History Fiction Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character) Fiction Highlands (Scotland) Fiction King of Athens Theseus Fiction North Carolina History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction Randall, Claire (Fictitious character) Fiction Scottish Americans Fiction Time travel FictionGreenwood, Kerry
Summary: When she falls in love with Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and helps him steal the Golden Fleece, Medea, Princess of Colchis and priestess of Hecate, Thee Named, Lady of Phantoms, sails with him to claim his throne, but things turn tragically wrong and she must attempt to reclaim her humanity through abandonment, murder and grief.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREHoffman, Alice
Summary: "The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOFBarenbaum, Rachel
Summary: "In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist Anna Berkov is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. At that exact moment she tears through time-her first jump-and it's an accident. When she opens her eyes, she's landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARYoung-Stone, Michele
Summary: " On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. At fifteen years old, confused and unmoored, Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUSaint, Jennifer
Summary: "A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice every year. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAIGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: In the seventh installment of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, Jamie Fraser and his time-traveling wife Claire face an abundance of daunting obstacles in the midst of the American Revolution. While they already know how history will play out, they are uncertain of their own futures.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAB VOL 1Call number: CD FIC GAB VOL 2
Gabaldon, Diana.
Summary: As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas during the American Revolution, they encounter privateers and ocean battles. Meanwhile in the relative safety of the 20th century Brianna (Claire and Jamie's daughter) and Roger MacKenzie, Brianna's husband, search for clues not only to Claire's fate--but to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009