Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Summary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OED

Summary: A switchboard operator gets caught up in the personal lives of the clients of an answering service, including that of a playboy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BEL

Holub, Joan

Summary: With some extra magic and the power of friendship, Artemis and Orion help each other on their respective quests.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin QUIX 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOL

Summary: The Greek tragedy of Sophocles in which King Creon orders Antigone's death for burying her slain brother against the King's desire.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANT

Venditti, Robert

Summary: "Mythological monsters and gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's textbooks and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime suspect. Now, he and his friends have just ten days to find a return Zeus's stolen property and bringpeace to a warring Mount Olympus."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC RIO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC PER

Summary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEA

Taylor, Laini

Summary: "Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAY

Summary: A middle-aged psychiatrist tries to find out why a young man has blinded six horses entrusted to his care.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EQU

Summary: A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on shore leave in San Francisco.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FOL

Summary: A movie buff periodically receives tips from the spirit of Humphrey Bogart on how to make it with women.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLA

Holub, Joan

Summary: Persephone and Aphrodite are continuing the quest to try and find some missing jewels. They end up meeting a lost bunny in their travels, who is looking for the Castle of What-Ifs. The girls end up in a magical, delicious land, where they meet a unicorn made of chocolate, with a very special crown--one that might be the key to finding one of the missing jewels!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin QUIX 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE HOL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Little Holub

Summary: Young Louisa Ginglebusher is recruited from a local orphanage to become an usherette at a movie theater. Encouraged by her kindly guardian to spread her wings, Louisa decides to lead the life of a fairy tale angel and in her quest to do good she tries to redirect money from a rich playboy to a struggling lawyer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GOO

Summary: A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SIL

Lam, Maple

Summary: "Follow along as the legendary Monkey King tries to save the world from a mysterious new threat -- and smashes his way through the world of ancient Greek mythology in the process!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LAM

Smythe, Rachel

Summary: Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love -- witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology's best-known stories from creator Rachel Smythe. Persephone was ready to start a new life when she left the mortal realm for Olympus. However, she quickly discovered the dark side of her glamorous new home -- from the relatively minor gossip...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SMY

Lukidis, Lydia

Summary: "Who will win this battle of famous beauty? In Asgard, the Norse goddess Frig rules over marriage, motherhood, family, and prophecy. Meanwhile, the Greek goddess Aphrodite reigns over love, beauty, and fertility. In this battle between two powerful ancient goddesses, who will come out on top?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Lukidis, Lydia

Summary: "Who will become the queen of the underworld? Norse goddess Hel watches over the soulds of those who die of sickness or old age. Meanwhile, Greek goddess Persephone can communicate with the dead and represents the change of the seasons. If these two goddesses clashed, who would come out on top?"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2024

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Holub, Joan

Summary: Elpis, a hope-spreading bubble, is given the chance to become the Spirit of Hope at Mount Olympus Academy if she can prove herself as a human girl among the students, but quickly realizes that being a human girl comes with its own challenges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOL

Riordan, Rick

Summary: Percy Jackson's hope for a normal senior year is shattered as the gods present him with three quests, beginning with the retrieval of Zeus's goblet, in order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation for college.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2023

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Oviedo, Claudia

Summary: "It's a battle of the famous strongman versus the great protector. The Roman god Hercules is known for his tremendous strength and determination. Norse god Thor is fearless and commands lighting, thunder, and storms. If these two heroes were to go head-to-head, who would come out on top? Compare and contrast Thor's and Hercules's strengths and weaknesses in this Mythology Matchup"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 292.2 OVI

Summary: "Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the enchanting and eternally popular world of Greek myth. Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.

Salisbury, Melinda

Summary: "The great love of Corey's life has always been her best friend, Bree: closer than sisters, their bond is unbreakable. Or so Corey thought, until Bree betrays her in the worst way possible. When Bree's sudden death rocks their small island community, Corey is heartbroken and furious. How can she mourn her one-time friend when she is still so angry at her? But though Bree has passed on, her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAL

Summary: "In these stories, lesser-known Christie heroes and heroines solve crimes of the heart as well as puzzling cases of larceny and murder. With just the right mix of danger and deception, romance and revenge, innocence and intrigue, these classic adaptations are Christie at her best"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGA

Haynes, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022

Sorry, no copies available

Place a hold to request this item.
Back to Top