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- Babylonia A Novel [electronic resource] : by Casati, Costanza.aut; cloudLibrary;
From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, as Costanza Casati reimagines the rise to power of the Assyrian empire’s only female ruler, Semiramis KINGS FALL, QUEENS RISE Nothing about Semiramis’s upbringing in ancient Assyria in the ninth century BC could have foretold her legacy. Born to a woman scorned by Aphrodite and raised as an orphan on the outskirts of an empire, Semiramis was never meant to hold power. But a path unfolds before her when she meets a young representative of the new Assyrian king, a path that puts her in the midst of a brutal world and at the heart of two men raised as brothers—one who just happens to be king. Now a lady in a court of vipers, Semiramis becomes caught in the politics and brutality of ancient Assyria. Even in this lavish kingdom, she is aware of the precariousness of her position. Instead of bartering with fate, Semiramis trains in war and diplomacy, rising in rank with each move. Embroiled in a game of power, desire, family, and betrayal, she seeks to ascend to the only position that will keep her safe: queen. This riveting myth-based story follows Semiramis, the only female ruler of the Assyrian empire, and the famous love triangle that made her queen.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Classics; Historical;
- © 2025., HarperCollins Canada,
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- I Am Cleopatra A Novel [electronic resource] : by Solomons, Natasha.aut; CloudLibrary;
From the internationally bestselling author of Fair Rosaline comes a captivating historical novel—a powerful retelling of the life of one of the most beguiling and misrepresented female figures in history, Cleopatra. The favored daughter of the Pharaoh, Egyptian Princess Cleopatra spent her childhood hiding amid the scrolls in the great library of Alexandria, dreaming of one day writing her own story. When her father dies, naming both Cleopatra and her selfish brother Ptolemy as his successors to the throne, danger arises. While the young Queen sails the Nile to greet her people, her brother plots to eliminate her and rule the empire alone. But while Ptolemy has the power of the kingdom behind him, Cleopatra has her cunning wits. When the great Caesar arrives from Rome, she realizes he could be the key to her salvation—though courting this powerful man could cost her everything. Can Cleopatra save her life, her throne, and her beloved Egypt and finally write her own history? Told from the dueling perspectives of Cleopatra and Caesar’s mistress Servilia, Cleopatra is a powerful, addictively readable retelling of the alluring queen’s life. A modern retelling that goes beyond previous caricatures, Cleopatra is a fascinating portrait of the flesh-and blood-woman behind the great legend. Natasha Solomons’ spellbinding story of female power and fragility, love and loss, fierce friendship and terrible betrayal introduces at last the real Cleopatra in all her glory and vulnerability.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Classics; Historical;
- © 2025., HarperCollins Canada,
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- The Children of Jocasta A Novel [electronic resource] : by Haynes, Natalie.aut; cloudLibrary;
“Reinterprets two of Sophocles’ Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful.”—The New Yorker “A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfunctional family. Haynes balances a fresh take on the material with a deep love for her sources, wearing her scholarship with grace, and giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.”—Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of The Song of Achilles and Circe The New York Times bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind returns with a powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked. When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why my siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . . Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as we’ve known it.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Classics; Literary;
- © 2024., HarperCollins,
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- 1984 / by Orwell, George,1903-1950.;
LSC- Subjects: Political fiction.; Dystopias.; Classics; Literary; Totalitarianism;
- © [2014], HarperPerennial Classics,
- Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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- Agnes Grey / by Bronte, Anne,1820-1849;
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- Subjects: Classics; Literary; Historical fiction.;
- © 2010., Oxford University Press,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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- Siddhartha / by Hesse, Hermann,1877-1962.; Rosner, Hilda.; Hesse, Hermann,1877-1962.Siddhartha.English.;
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- Subjects: Gautama Buddha; Classics; Literary; Buddhism;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Circe [electronic resource] : by Miller, Madeline.aut; cloudLibrary;
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- Subjects: Electronic books.; Classics; War & Military; Literary;
- © 2018., Little, Brown and Company,
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- A room of one's own ; by Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941.; Woolf, Virginia,1882-1941.Three guineas.;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC- Subjects: Classics; Literary; Women.; War.;
- © 2001., Vintage,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Oliver Twist / by Dickens, Charles,1812-1870.; Horne, Philip.;
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- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Classics; Literary; Orphans; Street children; Criminals;
- © c2009., Penguin,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Catch-22 / by Heller, Joseph.;
LSC- Subjects: War stories.; Black humor (Literature); Classics; Literary; Bombardiers; World War, 1939-1945;
- © 2011, c1989., Simon & Schuster,
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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