Holub, Joan.
Summary: "After overcoming many challenges, Zeus and his fellow Olympians arrive at the temple at Delphi--only to find a giant snake guarding the entrance! Beyond the python, Pythia appears. Trapped in the temple by the python's magic and mere presence, Pythia urges the Olympians not to worry about her, for they are urgently needed on another quest. The Olympians are now out to find the Spear of Fear. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Diana, the gangly, sometimes clumsy, only child on the island of Themyscira, struggles to live up to the high Amazonian standards and longs for someone her own age whom she can talk to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Hale 2020Levine, Gail Carson
Summary: "Trojan princess Cassandra is cursed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy, and must try to find her place in a world that she knows to be perilous; years later, will her friendship with a young Amazon princess named Rin help her to avert a disastrous end to their war?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books 2022
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Summary: "In Battle Royale: Lethal Warriors, we have a matchup of historic magnitude. We took the deadliest warriors from two different time periods and matched them in a battle of weaponry, strength, and grit. Who will come out victorious, Amazons or gladiators?You'll have to read to find out. This series utilizes considerate text written at a higher maturity level with a lower reading level to engage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2019
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Rec LohHagenMayor, Adrienne
Summary: "Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons. But just who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398 MAYSaeed, Aisha
Summary: Twelve-year-old Diana's much-anticipated visit with her best friend, Princess Sakina, turns into an adventure as they face a booby-trapped island, a forbidden visitor, and a demon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAEWilson, G. Willow
Summary: "War. For humankind, it is the oldest and deadliest enemy there is. And for Diana of Themyscira, the same is true... almost. Because to the Amazon Princess, war is not just an impersonal force of destruction. War is a god--a god named Ares. And Ares is back. Resurrected after years of oblivion, this young god has emerged once more to shake the world to its very foundations. But Ares is still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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Summary: "How did Wonder Woman get her powers? What is her tiara made of? Where did the Amazon Princess once work as a waitress? Discover a treasure trove of info about the world's most amazing Amazon warrior. Featuring captivating text, quick lists, fun quizzes, and more, this behind-the-scenes bio is bursting with fantastic facts and super secrets!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 741.5 KORFortier, Anne
Summary: Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself before vanishing without a trace. Diana's colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse. Traveling to North Africa, Diana teams up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FORShowalter, Gena.
Summary: A collection of three paranormal romances includes "The Amazon's Curse," in which Zane, a fierce vampire warrior, is enslaved by the Amazons and must place his trust in a rebel Amazon soldier who has captured his heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHOLivingston, Lesley
Summary: When Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, the only thing that might save them is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIVPressfield, Steven.
Summary: In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, journeys to the nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks call Amazons. Theseus enters a forbidden love affair with the Amazon queen, Antiope, and they secretly flee Amazonia for Athens. But fiery rage builds in their wake, and soon Greece is forced into vicious combat with a seemingly unstoppable army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRESimonson, Louise
Summary: Diana risks exile from her land of warrior sisters to save Alia Keralis, a Warbringer - a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy - as both face an army of enemies determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2020
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Summary: Wonder Woman discovers her heritage, continues to look for her friend Zola's baby, and is suspicious when Orion arrives at her doorstep as she doesn't know if she can trust him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WONMezrich, Ben
Summary: Jack Grady, a field anthropologist and 21st century Indiana Jones, lives for the thrill of adventure and the joy of discovery. When his estranged brother, the introverted mathematician Jeremy Grady, is murdered, Jack is determined to find out what happened. His first clue: his brother was stabbed in the chest with an ancient ivory spear. It reminds him of the weapons of the Amazons, a fierce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MEZMontgomery, Sy
Summary: "Part science, part carnival--this winding adventure down the Amazon River with award-winning author Sy Montgomery and photographer Keith Ellenbogen explores how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve not only the rainforest and it's often misunderstood inhabitants, but the fate of our entire environment."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.0981 MONMillard, Candice.
Summary: The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival MillardMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: "Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento." --contraportada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 MAR SPANISHFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is ...? title. Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the 'population' of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life--animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHEMartinez-Neal, Juana
Summary: Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MARHaynes, 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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Summary: "Beginning with a tiny trickle high in the mountains, smaller streams join until they form the world's largest river. Crossing a continent, it winds through lush rainforest until it meets the ocean. From snapping piranha fish to the giant anaconda, this mighty waterway is home to planet Earth's most incredible ecosystem"--Back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Eye Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 981 FRAAllende, Isabel.
Summary: When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2002
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ALLSummary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016