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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALPressfield, 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 PREJohnston, Paul
Summary: Hired by the wife of one of Greece's richest men to find her missing fourteen-year-old daughter, half Greek, half Scots PI, Alex Mavros faces an uphill battle. But he's not the only one looking for Lia. When a man's charred corpse is discovered in a remote farmhouse, and the headless body of another is found in the ancient stadium at Delphi, Mavros confronts the possibility that one of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHMillar, Martin.
Summary: "Aristophanes is inconsolable-his rival playwrights are hogging all the local attention, a pesky young wannabe poet won't leave him alone, his actors can't remember their lines, and his own festival sponsor seems to be conspiring against him, withholdingdirely needed funds for set design and, most importantly, giant phallus props. O woe, how can his latest comedy convince Athenian citizens to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCorby, Gary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORCorby, Gary.
Summary: Hired by Pericles to investigate the murder of a proxenos to Ephesus, private investigator Nicolaus discovers a sobering plot to invade and destroy Athens and rescues the enslaved daughter of a powerful diplomat and infamous traitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORSummary: A look at the creation of the American team for the Olympics in 1896, and of their journey to get to Athens, where the games were being held.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRVan Booy, Simon.
Summary: While in Athens, Rebecca--young, beautiful and lost--finds a confidant in George, a translator whose closest friends are Aristophanes and Jack Daniels, but their blossoming relationship becomes complicated when they meet Henry, a happy-go-lucky archaeologist who changes their lives forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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Summary: A bold reimaging of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOSummary: Two Americans living in Athens have a weekend fling one summer and decide to see if their relationship can last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONSiger, Jeffrey.
Summary: When the body of a boy from one of Greece's prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the special crimes division is certain there's a message in the murder. But who sent it and why?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIGBakopoulos, Natalie
Summary: "A captivating and transporting travel novel, Scorpionfish reveals how what we leave behind may be exactly what we've been looking for all along. After the unexpected deaths of her parents, young academic Mira returns to her childhood home in Athens. On her first night back, she encounters a new neighbor, a longtime ship captain who has found himself, for the first time in years, no longer at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bakopoulos 2020Corby, Gary.
Summary: "Nicolaos, Classical Athens's favorite sleuth, and his partner in investigation, the clever ex-priestess Diotima, have taken time out of their assignments to come home to get married. But if Nico was hoping they'd be able to get hitched without a hitch, he was overly optimistic. When they arrive in Athens, there's a problem waiting for them. The Sanctuary of Artemis is the ancient world's most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORHoena, B. A.
Summary: In this humorous (and gross) retelling of the Greek myth, Theseus and his hero friends visit the island of Crete and the amusement park known as the Labyrinth, where they encounter a nasty bully called the Minotaur who challenges Theseus to a race through the Maze-o-muck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HOEHolub, Joan
Summary: Young Athena is carried by a storm to Mount Olympus, where she follows the Hello Brick Road toward Sparkle City hoping Zeus will help her get home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Quix 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J Series Little Holub 2019McMullan, Kate.
Summary: In this modern version of Greek mythology, Hades explains how a jealous Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon and what really happened when Perseus went hunting for Medusa's head.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCMBlake, Kendare
Summary: "For the Goddess of Wisdom, what Athena didn't know could fill a book. So the assault on Olympus left them beaten and scattered and possibly dead. So they have to fight the Fates themselves, who, it turns out, are the source of the gods' illness. And sure, Athena is stuck in the underworld, holding the body of the only hero she has ever loved. But Hermes is still topside, trying to power up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLASaint, 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 Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAIHolub, Joan
Summary: Athena's arrogance throws a wrench into her plans to improve King Minos's labyrinth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HOLBlake, Kendare.
Summary: The escalating war between the gods takes Athena and Cassandra across the globe, searching for lost gods, old enemies, and the great warrior, Achilles, and although their alliance is fragile, they must find a way to work together or all is lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2014