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21) The runaway
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"Freya and Archie are sent back to Earth by Odin in order to locate a banished Valkyrie and bring her back to Asgaard. But Brunnhilde has built a life for herself on Earth and has no desire to return. And what Freya learns about that life, changes her understanding of her own family"--
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"Classic stories and dazzling illustrations of gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters come to life in a stunning tableau of Norse myths, including those of the thunder god Thor, the one-eyed god and Allfather Odin, and the trickster god Loki. The lyrical storytelling of award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli dramatizes the timeless tales of ancient Scandinavia. This book is the third in the trilogy that includes the popular National Geographic Treasury...
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The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
24) Valkyrie
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When Freya takes up her position as a Valkyrie, she's not excited to reap the souls of fallen soldiers as required of her. She'd prefer to avoid humans and their wars altogether. And when she reaps her first soldier, she finds herself thrust into the mortal world where she begins to find friendship with the humans and realizes she could be wrong about them. But she'll soon have to choose between her immortal and mortal friends, and it won't be an...
25) The Iliad
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"Composed around 730 B.C., Homer's Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war. Carved close to the original...
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Emily, Joel, Paelen, Pegasus, and the sphinx Alexis investigate a series of incidents back on Earth, and discover that the CRU has been cloning Olympians and Nirads--and now they want a clone of Emily! Emily and her friends try to stop the CRU before Jupiter puts an end to the Earth once and for all.
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While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.
34) The burning maze
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The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest.
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After fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends fail to keep a prophecy from the Sleeper, they undergo a rebranding campaign to prove the Pandavas's trustworthiness, but Aru believes they need to focus on finding the Tree of Wishes before the Sleeper and stopping war between the devas and the demons.
38) Ares: God of war
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Introduces young readers to the mythology surrounding Ares, the Greek god of war, including festivals and traditions dedicated to Ares. Includes a Greek mythology family tree, a glossary, a website for further resources, and color photographs.