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Author
Series
Grimrose girls volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they fear that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming them to gruesome deaths unless they can forge their own paths.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1966
Language
English
Description
Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the center of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set...
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Here are sixteen lovely, powerful, intricate, and unexpected unicorn tales from fantasy icons including Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, Patricia A. McKillip, Bruce Coville, Carrie Vaughn, and more. In this volume you will find two would-be hunters who enlist an innkeeper to find a priest hiding the secret of the last unicorn. A time traveler tries to corral an unruly mythological beast that might never have existed at all. The lover and ex-boyfriend of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their sonś loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotleś tutoring provoked his mind and Homerś Iliad fueled his aspirations. by the time his father was murdered, Alexanderś skills had grown to match his fiery ambition