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The Silence of the Girls
by Pat Barker
The Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy reimagines The Iliad from the perspectives of the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
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Summerlong
by Peter S Beagle
A complicated family brings a young woman named Lioness Lazos into their lives, and as spring leads into summer, Lioness awakens each family member's long-hidden dreams and desires.
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The Children of Jocasta
by Natalie Haynes
A feminist reimagining of Sophocles' classic plays explores the firsthand experiences of the queen Jocasta and the grieving Ismene in a Thebes overshadowed by plague, scandal and murderous competition. By the author of The Amber Fury.
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Lavinia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Growing up in ancient Italy, Lavinia is on the verge of a betrothal to Turnus, the handsome king of nearby Rulli, when a fleet of Trojan ships, under the command of Aeneas, sails up the Tiber, and Lavinia sets out to control her own destiny and find the love of her life, in a historical novel that puts a female twist on Virgil's classic, The Aeneid.
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Circe: A Novel
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel
by Marie Phillips
Alive and well in the twenty-first century in spite of waning powers and the need to hold jobs to support themselves, the twelve Greek gods of Olympus retain employment as dog walkers, TV psychics, and sex operators before a pair of humans is swept up in battle of wills between Aphrodite and Apollo.
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The King Must Die
by Mary Renault
An adaptation of the legend of Theseus who masters the art of bull leaping and slays the Minotaur in the process of fulfilling his destiny.
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Home Fire
by Kamila Shamsie
Given a chance to resume a deferred dream years after raising her troubled siblings, Isma worries about the influence of a powerful politician's son who drives the family to choose between love and loyalty, with devastating consequences. By the award-winning author of Broken Verses.
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Richard Papen, a relatively impoverished student at a New England college, falls in with an exclusive clique of rich, worldly Greek scholars and soon learns the dreadful secret that keeps them together.
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Salvage the Bones: A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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