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'Particularly skilled in evoking the strangeness and contradictoriness of Greek myths’ The Sunday Times' From the author of Herc, a Waterstones Best Book of the Year 'A joyful exploration of one woman's quest for home, power, identity and ultimately, freedom from fate. A genuine pleasure to...

Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans. Charting Venus's...

A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit...

Aphrodite Du Bell is a diamond of the first water and a favourite of the queen. Famed for her beauty, the members of the ton praise her warm brown skin, perfect curls and exquisite features. But her renowned loveliness didn't stop the love of her life, Evander Eagleman, from jilting her and marrying another woman four years ago. Heartbroken and still not knowing why the Duke threw her over, Aphrodite has been in self-imposed exile ever since.

Aphrodite delights in helping mortals find love, but she is definitely not delighted by the constant attention from the godboys at Mount Olympus Academy. So she comes up with the perfect plan to try and deflect some of that attention: She'll help a fellow goddess girl, Athena, find her very first crush. After giving Athena a fabulous makeover, Aphrodite is suddenly an afterthought as the boys at MOA go gaga for Athena's new look. And Aphrodite is a bit unprepared for just how much attention one of her best friends is now receiving. 

Finally sort out who’s who in Greek mythology—from gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everyone in between! Greek mythology continues to appear in popular movies and books today but have you ever wondered about where these characters started out? Discover the origins of your favorite...

A mortal empath marked by the gods is pulled into a celestial conspiracy when an exiled angel crashes into her life—literally and mythically. Drawn to the angel’s luminous presence and haunted by visions that blur past lives with present danger, she uncovers a hidden war between ancient deities and modern prophets who would turn devotion into control. To stop a rising order from weaponizing faith, she must master a power born of tenderness, rage, and radical compassion—while risking the one thing the heavens forbid: a love that refuses to bow.

New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination of personal narrative and treasury of erotic lore. Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses...

How had things gone so wrong? Caelyn's small hands, raw with broken blisters, were no longer able to grasp the oars. It mattered little that the wind was dying and the sky was almost clear. Without fresh water, they would not survive. Exhausted, she rested against the oar handles crossed in an X before her and sobbed, cursing the strange aversion that kept her from doing the one simple thing that might save them. But only for a few moments. She may not be stronger than her phobia, but neither was she weak of constitution and determination.

Hello. Yes… you.Don’t be startled. I didn’t enter. I appeared.I am Aphrodite Ickx. Navigation app.Hallucination. Goddess — rewritten. [You don’t need to do anything, I’m already doing it for you— I saw your finger hesitate, I know the exact point you pause. I don’t guide you through streets, no, I guide you through soft places in time, where memories lose their edges, where desire has no name.Stay with me, you. Don’t move. Don’t explain. Just listen… while I light up your veins. A little glow behind your eyes, a map that melts, a truth that slides— if you’re lost, I...

Ein Mann wird brutal misshandelt. Kommissarin Rubina Hiller und Kommissar Simon Peick ermitteln. Erste Hinweise führen ins Rotlichtmilieu. Als ein Mann vergewaltigt wird, stoßen die Ermittler auf die Verbindung zu einem Mordfall, der vor Jahren aufgeklärt wurde. Handelt es sich um einen Justizirrtum? Hiller und Peick rollen den Fall neu auf. Schnell geraten sie in ein Labyrinth aus Lügen, Geheimnissen und Gewalt, in dessen Mittelpunkt ein Sadist steht. Dieser folgt einem teuflischen Drehbuch und ist auf Rubina fixiert.

Seventeen-year-old Ariadne is in love with young British National Serviceman, Stephen Allenby. But her family are deeply involved with an organization campaigning for a union with Greece, and do not approve. And they’re not the only ones. It’s only a matter of time before Stephen is sent back to England, leaving Ariadne pregnant and alone. Stephen does his best to move on with his life. He marries Laura and has a baby girl called Cressida, but it’s not long before the cracks start to show and his marriage falls apart …

Commander Mariucci and his hand-picked research team know they will have to muster all of their expertise, creativity and teamwork to survive the very harshest of conditions in orbit around the king of planets. But when they intercept a peculiar radio transmission, they have to investigate. Nothing should work in these impossible conditions, so what is sending the signal...and why? With a degrading ship and crew at breaking point, there's every chance they will tear themselves apart before they ever find the answer to the ultimate question.

It's not easy being perfect.... But Aphrodite is determined to prove that she's more than just a pretty face. When she's asked to investigate strange events occurring on cruise ships, she's all over it. Little does she guess just how much this mission is going to cost her.

Born from a strange mixture of divine blood, severed genitals, and seafoam, Aphrodite washed up on the shores of Cyprus long before the emergence of her fellow Olympians. A figure who is as petty as she is relatable, she is not only a key deity of the Greek pantheon, but she is also a central figure in many of the myths we know and love. While it would be impossible to gather all the different stories related to Aphrodite in their entirety in one collection, this audiobook provides a nice, if modest, assortment of narratives that display different facets of this fascinating goddess.

“It’s a literary gift to see gender expansiveness depicted in an ancient myth with such grace and ease.” —Electric Literature Fans of Circe and Black Sun, “prepare to be astonished” (R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries) with this bold and subversive feminist and queer retelling of...

A podcast about lessons learned in love. Hosted by Emi Knight and Kia Wright.

Ever wonder what it would be like to live on the Moon? Just ask Aphrodite Kim, a teenage genius who was born on Luna and has lived there all her life. She knows TerraNova City well; in fact, she’s a certified tour guide, making extra money guiding rich Earthworm tourists around the Lunar Free State’s capital.

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Nunca es demasiado tarde para huir de aquello que te hace daño. Fueron las palabras que decidí dejar guardadas para siempre sobre mi piel. Estaba dispuesta a superar la violencia y los malos recuerdos de una relación fallida para cumplir mi sueño. El único sueño que recuerdo haber tenido durante toda mi vida: Contarle al mundo las historias que creaba en mi cabeza. Aunque solo una persona las leyera, para mí era suficiente. En el camino hacia el autodescubrimiento atravesé varias tormentas y, en medio de ellas, conocí a mi dios de la guerra, lleno de remordimientos y resentimientos.