Arcadia Public Library

The centuries old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator and accompanied by an introduction that reassesses the identity of Homer. In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes -- godlike, yet utterly human of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief -- compel our own humanity. Time after time, one pauses and re-reads before...

When Prince Paris of Troy claims the beautiful Helen from Greek king Menelaus and war ensues, Achilles, a demigod prince and celebrated warrior, is charged with leading his Greek countrymen to victory against the Trojans.

Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate. Set during the Trojan War.

Retelling of two tales from Homer's epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey. Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happened after the Trojan War when Odysseus, the most cunning of all the Greek heroes, left Troy and made his way back to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. The Tale of Troy tells how Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, went on a voyage in search of his father and how he heard tales of the Trojan Wars.

I never could have imagined that Derek and I would willingly turn back into vampires, but there are some things in life that you just can't predict, like the strange human disappearances that had started happening on the coasts surrounding us. There would have been nothing mysterious about these kidnappings so close to our own turf, had the Shade's vampires not given up drinking human blood almost two decades ago.