Troy

Matturro, Richard

Random House Value Publishing

<p>This reimagining of the Trojan War era brings to new life the fates of such legendary historical characters as Helen, Iphigenia, Hector, Achilles, and Odysseus</p>

Troy (Ancient City)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Walker Co

Medea

<p>Differing accounts of Medea's story all agree in one significant regard: after deliberately murdering several innocent people, including her own children, Medea never met with any punishment, human or divine. Why was no penalty ever exacted from this classic embodiment of female rage? Set in Bronze Age Greece, the myth is here told in the form of a modern novel, eliminating none of the passion or violence. Medea is the awkward, introverted daughter of a royal family, growing up in a remote backwater of the Greek world. An escape from this stifling life is offered by the arrival of the dashing and feckless Jason, for whom Medea gives up everything to follow him back to mainland Greece. There she bears him twin sons, then watches helplessly as he falls out of love with her. His announcement that she will be exiled, minus her two boys, so that he can marry the king's daughter brings on the final catastrophe.</p>

Contemporary

Livingston Pr

Differing accounts of Medea's story all agree in one significant regard: after deliberately murdering several innocent people, including her own children, Medea never met with any punishment, human or divine. Why was no penalty ever exacted from this classic embodiment of female rage? Set in Bronze Age Greece, the myth is here told in the form of a modern novel, eliminating none of the passion or violence. Medea is the awkward, introverted daughter of a royal family, growing up in a remote backwater of the Greek world. An escape from this stifling life is offered by the arrival of the dashing and feckless Jason, for whom Medea gives up everything to follow him back to mainland Greece. There she bears him twin sons, then watches helplessly as he falls out of love with her. His announcement that she will be exiled, minus her two boys, so that he can marry the king's daughter brings on the final catastrophe.

Fiction. Zach had hoped for a romantic fling but gets more than he bargained for when he meets Luna, a boyish young woman who never smiles, who has a passion for roller coasters, and who bluntly offers herself to him, no strings attached. Put off by her odd looks and manners, even doubting the soundness of her mind, Zach is nevertheless fascinated by a curious integrity he perceives in her, something lacking in himself. He begins an affair with Luna and meets others whose lives she has touched: an amusement park mogul, an eccentric uncle who fights City Hall with his backhoe, an acerbic neighbor who provides the clue to Luna's shrouded childhood.

Luna

Romance

Livingston Press

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Troy

Troy (Ancient City)

Medea

Medea

Luna