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Claire Heywood
National bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of Perseus.
Myth remembers Perseus as one of its greatest heroes…
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The myth of Perseus, told through the story of the three women who knew him best - his mother Danae, his wife Andromeda, and his victim, Medusa.
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Laurens Perseus Hickok
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Perseus
From the New York Times bestselling author of Helter Skelter comes a provocative book on agnosticism
From one of the foremost political and cultural thought leaders of our time, bestselling author and former U.S. Senator Bradley delivers a game-changing and thought-provoking book about how to break…
Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive collection of her short fiction shows her to be a…
The New York Times bestseller that has enlightened and entertained women of all ages–now available in paperback.
The novel that launched the beat generation’s literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady. Drafted two months before Jack Kerouac began On The Road…
Unpublished essays and correspondence, as well as selections from An Afghanistan Pciture Show and other major works, by the daring journalist and novelist reveals a never-before-seen side to the powerful…
Is the lead singer of Americas most notorious rock band really dead? Years after the Poet’s apparent death, his musical collaborator and friend Roy finds the man once known as…
The first collection of writings about Tom Waits-spanning the artist’s thirty-year career in music, film, and theatre-and featuring the most revealing, bizarre, provocative, and hilarious interviews, profiles, reviews, and conversations…
From the poet laureate of hard-boiled America, a 25th-anniversary edition of a WWII masterpiece-published to coincide with the film version’s restoration and DVD release
The fiction of Lucius Shepard has more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated by deception and decay, and generally labeled a cyberpunk writer, his work transcends the…
The classic tale of a female Huck Finn, Peter Bogdanovich’s film version of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in the darkest days of the Great Depression…
In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They’re willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of…
In this steamy novel of bondage and abandon, Richard, an Englishman in Hamburg, is introduced by Margaret Wagner to her beautiful niece Helena, and with them experiences the thrills of…
In a harrowing tale of misadventure, a ruthless industrialist and a seaman down on his luck set out on an Arctic safari that confronts them with not only the perils…
Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness,all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the centre of this powerful, popular American classic, yet still he prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, Jacky nurtures his…
By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re-creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. It’s a world in which she can escape…
A seemingly impossible murder in a London rooming house sends master sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, on a perilous search for a killer that leads them from…
A one-of-a-kind anthology that captures the bizarre romance and mystery of the world’s oldest and oddest traveling institution
This who’s who of mystery, showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery Queen magazine over the past 60 years, is a treasure trove for mystery lovers everywhere.
An extraordinary new literary voice brings together the comic milieu of David Sedaris with the spot on perceptions of Adam Haslett’s You Are Not a Stranger Here.
In a crafty new novel featuring the world’s greatest literary detective, Vanneman extends the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes canon with a knotty investigation that takes the celebrated sleuth and…
The ultimate guide to the Wee People from cluricauns and leprechauns to Silkies, Banshees, and Pookas
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Swirling with witchcraft and sensuality, Hex blends the futurism of Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson with the sexual explorations of Samuel R. Delany and Jim Grimsley in this thrilling novel…
For years Gerald lived for his twin passions, acting and sex. And as a young actor, he found plenty of opportunities to perform in both arenas. No longer young or…
X in Paris By Michael Brodsky A baker’s dozen of short stories by Brodsky, representing the postmodern master at his best. A tour de force. -the Columbus Post-Dispatch ISBN: 0-941423-13-1
Rabon provides an unsentimental portrait of Eastern European Jewish life, with none of the Shubert Alley schmaltz of Fiddler on the Roof or the mythopoetic grandeur of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s…
The inspiration for the film The Face of an Angel, starring Kate Beckinsale and Daniel BruhlIn November 2007 Meredith Kercher, a fresh-faced honor student, was found dead in her shared…
Master money-maker Dean Graziosi tells you how to make your fortune in real estate, in an up or down market.
One of the most important assets you have is your earning ability: your ability to do something that other people will pay you for. This asset can be valuable and…
The longtime editor in chief of Variety takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most iconic films of the ‘60s and '70s and details his own whirlwind journey…
First published in 1934, this novel tells the compelling story of a remarkable German Jewish family confronted by Hitler’s rise to power. Three generations of this well-established Berlin family face…
Now in trade paperback, Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop is a charming and unique collection of Christmas stories edited by award-winning Otto Penzler and including works by major bestselling authors…
A vacuum-cleaner salesman becomes entangled in a homicidal biker’s quest to avenge his brother’s murder: Earl Dean has become one of the best salesmen in Pomona. But bad luck brings…
Book jacket/back: Francois Mauriac- who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952- is famous for his subtle character portraits of the French rural classes and for depicting their struggles…
A novel of rural Ireland: Furious, raging, passionate and … very, very funny. – Boston Globe. At once a rueful elegy to a vanished spirit and a comic celebration. For…
In this second of McCaughrean’s four-book Heroes series, readers follow Perseus as he lives the fate the oracles have declared, an impossible quest to kill the hideous, snake-haired Medusa to…
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Johann Rist
Johann Rist: Perseus
Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch
Berliner Ausgabe, 2013
Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger
Erstdruck: Hamburg (Rosenbaum), 1634. Urauffuhrung 1634, Heide.
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Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter, UK)
This is the first scholarly book in English devoted to Perseus’ myth in its entirety for over a century. With information drawn from a diverse range of sources as well…
Wingo Perseus
Intrepid traveler Luis is trapped during a flight delay and has many hours to see and hear and sense his fellow passengers. As he grows more invisible, the kinetic world…
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