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1) Wonder Woman
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Diana, princess of the Amazons was trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers, and her true destiny.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 519 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey tangled with Amazons. But just who were these bold barbarian archers on horseback who gloried...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 213 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons." That is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated society ever since. Did they really exist? Until recently, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons, and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality.
North of the Black Sea, she found...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today. -- Amazon.com
Author
Language
English
Description
"Trojan princess Cassandra is cursed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy, and must try to find her place in a world that she knows to be perilous; years later, will her friendship with a young Amazon princess named Rin help her to avert a disastrous end to their war?"--
Author
Publisher
RatPac Press in collaboration with Running Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jack Grady, a field anthropologist and 21st century Indiana Jones, lives for the thrill of adventure and the joy of discovery. When his estranged brother, the introverted mathematician Jeremy Grady, is murdered, Jack is determined to find out what happened. His first clue: his brother was stabbed in the chest with an ancient ivory spear. It reminds him of the weapons of the Amazons, a fierce tribe of female warriors dating all the way back to the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself before vanishing without a trace. Diana's colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse. Traveling to North Africa, Diana teams up with Nick Barran, an enigmatic Middle Eastern guide, and...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
400 p. : col. maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Steven Pressfield is the internationally best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War. An epic of love and war, Last of the Amazons is a gripping, imaginative novel of the ancient world filled with Pressfield's trademark extraordinary attention to detail. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, journeys to the nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called Amazons.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Join the Amazon princess on her quest to protect Earth from evil. Discover her amazing superpowers, read about her dangerous enemies, and meet brave allies, including the Justice League--Cover.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
157 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Princess Nubia loves her mothers, their home on Themyscira, and all her Amazon aunties, but when Princess Diana is assigned to her bedroom she must learn to live and excel with her new sister.
Author
Publisher
[Cherry Lake Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Battle Royale: Lethal Warriors, we have a matchup of historic magnitude. We took the deadliest warriors from two different time periods and matched them in a battle of weaponry, strength, and grit. Who will come out victorious, Amazons or gladiators? You'll have to read to find out. This series utilizes considerate text written at a higher maturity level with a lower reading level to engage struggling readers. Book includes a table of contents,...
13) Amazon women
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A brief history of fighting warrior women is explored as notables such as, Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Abby Wettan Kleinbaum, Stanley B. Alpern, Jay Wurts, Barbara Ehrenreich and Susan Herrgesell contribute their ideas to this subject.
14) Wonder Woman
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
33 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wonder Woman tells how she came to be the protector of humankind, who her enemies are, and how she keeps her identity secret.
15) Peter Duck
Author
Language
English
Description
The Swallows and Amazons, as well as Captain Flint and the ancient able seaman Peter Duck, set sail on the Wild Cat bound for the Channel. But they are shadowed by the Viper, manned by none other than Black Jake - a beastly pirate with a dark plan. Can the children race ahead and uncover the buried treasure before the pirate? Can they survive storms, earthquakes, crabs and even a waterspout and make it home?
16) Wonder Woman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The rebellious Princess Diana defies Amazonian law and goes with fighter pilot Steve Trevor back to civilization. Meanwhile, Ares has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of the Amazonians and has decided to exact his revenge. He intends to start a world war that will not only last for centures but will wipe out every living being on the planet, starting with the Amazonians. It is now up to Princess Diana to save her people and the world by using...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Wonder Woman's life is changed forever when she is called on to take the place of War on Olympus! An epic new era of WONDER WOMAN begins here, as Diana must decide if the path set out for her is one she wants to take. But there's no time for Wonder Woman to fully comprehend the fallout as her family gathers to prepare for an assault on Olympus! The last time the First Born came for Olympus, it took the death of the God of War to stop him. With Wonder...
18) The foretelling
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
167 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io and her feelings for a boy from a tribe of wanderers.
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 17
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition ; First Aladdin hardback edition.
Physical Desc
97 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to placate Eurythseus, Hercules must steal a golden belt from an Amazon warrior, but first he encounters the fearsome giant Alkyoneus, who plans to feed him to his seven hungry daughters.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
206 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Diana risks exile from her land of warrior sisters to save Alia Keralis, a Warbringer - a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy - as both face an army of enemies determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer.
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