Haynes, Natalie
Summary: "The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene's temple, the goddess is enraged. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge--on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYHaynes, Natalie
Summary: The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay of epic poetry and Greek tragedy, from Homer to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts. And still,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 292.1 HAYHaynes, Natalie
Summary: "Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their male kin, including: Athene, who sprang fully formed from her father's brow (giving Zeus a killer headache in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 292.2 HAYHaynes, Natalie
Summary: Moving from London to Edinburgh after tragically losing her fiancé, former actress Alex Morris accepts a drama-therapy teaching job for troubled teens and bonds with them over Greek tragedies in ways that help her heal but inspire the teens in disturbing ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAYCarnes, Natalie
Summary: "This is a woman's answer to Augustine's Confessions. The narrator gives birth to her daughter and finds she has given birth to a new self. But this conversion to the new life of motherhood demands other conversions, further births, newer selves. As she struggles with the thorny issues of modern parenthood-raising a white child in a world of racism, a daughter in a world of patriarchy, and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020