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Five thousand years out of the labyrinth, the Minotaur finds himself in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at a steakhouse. No longer a devourer of human flesh, the Minotaur is a socially inept, lonely creature with very human needs. But over a two-week period, as his life dissolves into chaos, this broken and alienated immortal awakens to the possibility for happiness and to the capacity for love.
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...3) Ariadne
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"A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe. Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid's stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice every year. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives to vanquish the beast, Ariadne sees in his green eyes not...
4) Bull
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A modern twist on the Theseus and Minotaur myth, told in verse.
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An ancient ogre empire threatens cataclysm for all in this thrilling follow-up to the New York Times–bestselling Minotaur Wars trilogy
With a dire enemy now seated on the throne of the minotaur empire, Golgren returns to his own realm on the mainland. A one-handed half-breed ogre with great ambitions, he uses brutal means to consolidate his power—and forge unlikely alliances.
Along the way, he...
With a dire enemy now seated on the throne of the minotaur empire, Golgren returns to his own realm on the mainland. A one-handed half-breed ogre with great ambitions, he uses brutal means to consolidate his power—and forge unlikely alliances.
Along the way, he...
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In a reality TV retelling of the myth of the Minotaur, seventeen-year-old Ariadne fights to save her brother, Asterion, and make her own destiny in a world of celebrity, surveillance, and feigned authenticity. Her royal family's entertainment empire is the hottest thing on television. The biggest moneymaker? The Labyrinth Contest, a TV extravaganza in which Ariadne leads fourteen teens into a maze to kill a monster. To win means endless glory; to...
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Retells the story of the minotaur through the eyes of his fifteen-year-old sister, Ariadne, a lonely girl destined to become a goddess of the moon, and her new friend, Theseus, the son of Athens' king who was sent to Crete as a sacrifice to her misshapen brother.
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Retells the Greek myth of Daedalus, an inventor who flees Athens with his young son Icarus after being unjustly accused of murdering his nephew, and ends up in another dangerous situation when he is commanded by King Minos to build a labyrinth to hide a child monster, the Minotaur.
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Professor von Volt plans to send Geronimo and his time traveling friends back to King Solomon's court to borrow a ring that supposedly will restore harmony to Mouse Island and balance the environment--but they soon find themselves taking an unplanned detour through Napoleon's court, a Viking village, and the Minotaur's labyrinth, before finally arriving before the wise King.