"On the isle of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace--a peace that is shattered by the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra. Orestes' hands are stained with his mother's blood. Not so long ago, the son of Agamemnon took Queen Clytemnestra's life on Ithaca's...

Un álbum para descubrir las aventuras fantásticas del astuto Ulises contra monstruos y dioses de la mitología griega. Ulises, el rey de la isla de Ítaca, sale de Troya para volver a casa, pero los dioses no van a ponérselo nada fácil... Antes de reunirse con su familia, a Ulises le espera un viaje emocionante y lleno de peligros, aventuras, monstruos y magia. A lovely picture book to discover Odysseus' fantastic adventures as he faces storm...

"When Daniel de La Luna arrives as a scholarship student at an elite East Coast university, he bears the weight of his family's hopes and dreams, and the burden of sharing his late uncle's name. Daniel flounders at first-but then Sam, his roommate, changes everything. As their relationship evolves from brotherly banter to something more intimate, Daniel soon finds himself in love with a man who helps him see himself in a new light. But just as their...

"With the rise of new creators who emphasized their own individual voices while also focusing on their characters' inner lives, Marvel Comics in the 1970s laid the groundwork for the next decade's breakthroughs, expanding our sense of what the comics medium can do and what the superhero genre makes possible"--

"In August 1846, abolitionist Gerrit Smith revealed his intent to parcel out 120,000 Adirondack acres to three thousand black New Yorkers to enable them to win the right to vote through property ownership. This book is the story of this so-called grant, the actuality of the lives of the new homesteaders in the North Country of the Adirondacks, and the legacy of their experiences"--

"Missionary Diplomacy traces the connections between the Protestant foreign mission movement and the US State Department over the nineteenth century, with particular attention paid to the development of new ideas about citizenship, religious freedom, and humanitarianism."--

"Describes the biology and natural history of snakes, which include almost 3,000 living species. Includes the latest research on taxonomic changes, habitat, conservation status, unusual behavior, and venomous snakebite as a tropical disease"--