Conejos Library District

"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...

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.

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück’s eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time opposing their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding...

From the ancient Greek myth, Demeter, goddess of earth is heartbrokedn over losing her daughter, Persephone, to the god of the Underworld.

Retells the Greek myth in which Persephone must spend six months out of every year below the Earth in Hades.

After meeting a water naiad named Minthe in the gloomy Underworld, Persephone is grateful for the happy life she leads. Minthe has to guard the stinky river Cocytus, with no friends around her. When the students of Mount Olympus Academy are challenged to a geo-dashing competition all over the Earth, Persephone wants to win! But it turns out Minthe is definitely a little green with envy over Persephone and her friends. And when the challenge takes...

Persephone runs off to the Underworld with Hades, with whom she has fallen in love, but when her mother Demeter threatens to destroy the earth to save her, Persephone finds a way to come back once a year, bringing spring.

Retells the Greek myth of Persephone, abducted by Hades and taken to the Underworld as his bride, and her mother, Demeter, whose grief over losing her daughter brings about the coming of the seasons.

A graphic novel adaptation of the Greek myth in which the grief felt by Demeter over the loss of her beautiful daughter Persephone, who has been kidnapped by the god of the underworld, causes a permanent winter to fall over the land.

A #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Nthe Oqueen of contemporary teen novelsO ("New York Journal of Books")Ndelivers the thrilling conclusion to her series that cleverly reimagines the ancient myth of Persephone.