World Mythology

Cassandra’s known she’s a mermaid since her tweens, more or less. But how did Cass come to be one? That’s a mystery that she’s got to solve. The only clue to the puzzle is her mother’s name. So she’s going to trace her mother’s footsteps, all the way to Mettleshire in England. There, she’s hoping to attend the same university and learn something—anything—about her mother. To her surprise, day one in at Hollowell University in Mettleshire starts with a mysterious—and hot—stranger saving her life and with another student recognizing her because evidently, Cass is a ...

Like uncovering a sexy diamond in the rough, Legends of Lust reveals the fiery passions lying dormant behind your favorite mythological stories. This adults-only, debut collection of 14 steamy, erotic short stories by Autumn Bardot is an explosion of sexy, nasty, and romantic retellings that will take your love of myths to a whole new level.

The enchanted life has nothing to do with escapism or magical thinking: it is founded on a vivid sense of belonging to a rich and many-layered world. It is creative, intuitive, imaginative. It thrives on work that has heart and meaning. It respects the instinctive knowledge, ethical living and playfulness, and relishes story and art. Taking the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales and folk culture, this book offers a set of practical and grounded tools for reclaiming enchantment in our lives, giving us a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world.

Prince Elician is a Giver. With a touch he can heal any wound and bring the dead back to life. He also can’t be killed, so is cursed to watch his country fight an endless war he can do nothing to stop. Reapers can kill with a single touch. And when one attacks Prince Elician near the battlefield, but fails, the Reaper expects to harshly punished. Instead, Elician offers him a chance at a new life and a new name on enemy territory.

Does Greek mythology fascinate you and your children? Do you struggle to find the appropriate learning resources that are fun and interesting for the whole family? In today's digital age, finding educational content for kids that is captivating enough to get them away from a screen can seem like an impossible task. But with the right book, it won't be. If you are looking for a children’s book of Greek mythology to connect the dots between ancient myths and modern pop culture icons like Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Percy Jackson, then you need to listen to this book!

Puede ser difícil encontrar una colección completa y atractiva de mitos egipcios teniendo en cuenta el número de versiones y traducciones disponibles. Sin embargo, no busque más, ya que ha encontrado un libro fascinante que incluye muchos de los mitos egipcios más populares en un formato fácil de leer.

Mermaid Pollutions (The Lost Angels)" novel was based on a true life story of an encounter Mark had with a mermaid (I chose to name Porshy). Just to help, John Mark (real name) gave Porshy a ride without knowing her true identity... "What a tragic end, BK thought. What a tragic end of a sojourner?" She was almost out of the water into the boat when the snake stood high on her tail with opened mouth ready to strike. An alarm had already been sounded when her guide saw what was happening. That attracted the coastguards men. They policed the seas but would they be able to police the sea ...

Diamond Dionne is a daring treasure hunter with a hidden agenda. When she and her sidekick, Amethyst Angelova, break into an ancient crypt, they find themselves in the clutches of Prince Renaud, a tortured soul driven by a thirst for revenge, along with his pet ferret, Fausto. In exchange for their freedom, Diamond proposes an unlikely deal—they must find the Louis XIV Sunburst Pendant, a mysterious item that can bend anyone’s will with the power to break curses. Deals with otherworldly characters are never what they seem, but that doesn’t stop Diamond and Renaud from trying to one-up...

Folktales were humble stories, passed down generations by those on the fringes of society: women, peasants, outcast groups. Across the world, these ancient stories are filled with strange characters, complicated figures who hold up a mirror to the world that dreamt them up. From outspoken women cast as witches to anti-authority figures denounced as criminals, flawed heroes to relatable villains, Rebel Folklore celebrates 50 of these misfits and what they mean for us today.

Did Helen choose to run off to Troy with Paris, or did he force her to go with him? Two orphans of the Trojan War, the tragic conflict Helen’s elopement or abduction precipitated, search for the answer to one of the oldest questions in history—and discover much more.

~note to readers: This is an updated version of Gypsy's Quest. The title and cover have been changed.~ Gertrude gasped in a breath. She was on a beach, a Tarot deck scattered around her. The Tower card lay face up, Gertrude’s one clue to memories she couldn’t bring into focus. And memories or not, she knew its meaning—massive upheaval, destruction and chaos. The truth was revealed a month later. She was pregnant. But it wasn’t until her three-month old was kidnapped, that the memories poured in. The father was an evil man—the son of a sorceress. And it was this sorceress who had ...

A wildly inventive, exhilarating debut narrated by a young woman meditating on her Czech ancestors' 'falling curse', her twin brother's fall from a window and the malleable, breakable bonds keeping her family from falling apart. One thing that the city of Prague is famous for is throwing men out of windows. The word for this is defenestration.

Would you try listening to this book today to see world history the way I do in a way that liberates me from the frustrating limitations I learned in school and places me in a world with a deep sense of where I come from and what my purpose today is? My total dissatisfaction with the mainstream version of history many of us are given started in anthropology class when I was a student in college.

With heroic deeds, family drama, pulse-pounding battles, and shape-shifting magic, it’s no wonder that mythology fascinates us all. Packed with facts, Amazing Immortals profiles over eighty of these fantastical beings.

Living forever isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. Hearts can still break, looks can still fade, and money still matters, even in eternity. The ghosts, zombies, and demons in this collection are all shockingly human, and they’re ready to spill their guts. Vanity, love, and tragedy are all candidly explored as the unfulfilled desires of the dead are echoed in the lives of modern-day immigrants. Story-by-story, the line between ghost and human, life and death, becomes increasingly blurred. From Shanghai to Vancouver, the women in this collection haunt and are haunted.

Discover 26 captivating stories of gods and goddesses from civilisations around the world in this audiobook that introduces children to ancient cultures. Young listeners will delight in myths that explain the beginning of the world, the way gods helped humans, the divine's power over weather and other natural phenomena and much more. Through incredible storytelling, you can learn how ancient cultures believed the world began, how gods have helped humans, how gods ruled over the natural world and much more.

Shanahan's Stone is a tale about greed, vengeance, redemption, and love. So much history and mythology has become misinterpreted and altered over the years. Although modern day depictions describe leprechauns as little men dressed in green who hoard pots of gold, ancient Irish folklore depicted them quite differently. Shanahan's Stone breaks from these cliches and many other contemporary Irish stereotypes. It weaves an imaginative and unique story steeped in colorful Irish folklore.

Our world is a strange place. This haunting book peers into the dark spaces that lie somewhere between belief and imagination, and into the weird stories we tell to make sense of where and who we are.

Christopher Hadley is a journalist and author. His pieces on such popular subjects as 18th-century religious tracts have appeared in The Independent, The Guardian, The Times, London Review of Books, Esquire and his local parish magazine, among many other publications. Hollow Places, an account of his search across 1,000 years of British history for the dragon-slayer Shonks, is his first history book.

For millennia, people considered dragons to be real, and the vivid lore of dragons has touched societies from Central America to Europe, and from Egypt to China. The popularity of dragons can easily be assessed by the number of motion pictures that include them as an integral part of their narrative, from the friendly dragons of children’s cartoons to the monsters being bred underground to unleash their horrors on humanity.