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2) Ariadne
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Well-known mystery writer Ariadne Oliver organizes a Murder Hunt as the main event at the Fete held on the grounds of Nasse House. Every detail is arranged -- and the stage is set for murder. Suspecting that something isn't quite right Ariadne Oliver telephones her old friend, Hercule Poirot, for help. Whilst organizing a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist...
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Ariadne Vitalis is in trouble. She's betrayed her father--and his benefactor--and now she's left to rely on the questionable mercy of Olympus to keep her safe. As with everything in this city, mercy comes with a price. For Ariadne, that means a marriage to Dionysus. She has no choice but to agree, even if there's only one man she's ever wanted--a man she's feared just as much as she desires. The Minotaur never had any illusions about Minos's plans....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest on her deathbed only hours earlier? Mark Easterbrook and his sidekick Ginger Corrigan are determined to find out. Maybe the three women who run The Pale Horse public house, and who are rumored to practice the 'Dark Arts, ' can provide...
6) Third girl
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Series
Language
English
Description
From her tousled appearance to her perplexed stare, there was much about the young girl that struck Hercule Poirot as peculiar. But it was her vague confession to a possible murder she's not even sure she's committed that really threw the brainy Belgian detective for a loop. And now she's missing! Where might she be? No one knows -- and no one seems to care. Novelist Ariadne Oliver assists Poirot in this tale of impersonation, drugs, smuggling, forgery,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce--a hostile thirteen-year-old--boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence.' But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a doubler murderer ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Minnesota drama editions volume no. 3
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press in association with the Minnesota Theatre Co
Pub. Date
[©1966]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The unmissable series returns and the time has come for Jason to fulfill his destiny, or Atlantis will be lost beneath the waves forever. A year has passed and much has changed. With Minos dead, Ariadne is Queen and finds herself at war with her old adversary: Pasiphae. The kingdom stands on the brink of collapse and the struggle for power is both bloody and brutal.
15) Ariadne, awake!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ariadne, princess of Crete, helps her beloved Theseus escape death in the labyrinth of the monstrous Minotaur.
16) Dark of the moon
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
©1982
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Shaitana is a strange and wealthy collector of snuff boxes and other objets d'art. One evening he invites two specialists, Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard and crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, to a dinner party to view his special collection: four people who have committed murder and gotten away with it. As they play bridge after dinner, Shaitana is daringly murdered by someone at the party. Battle sets out to solve the crime aided, of course,...
Author
Series
Schriftenreihe Antiquitates volume Bd. 22
Publisher
Kovač
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Deutsch
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