Myths And Legends category: 2297 books

Forget naughty or nice—this is a battle of good vs. evil. Discover the origins of St. Nick and follow along as the Guardians start their quest to rid the world of nightmares in the first Guardians chapter book from Academy Award winner William Joyce that inspired the beloved film, The Rise...

Sure, the glass castle floating over Evan’s head's a little unsettling, but that’s the least of his worries. With each step inside the Dungeon of Dreadful Dreams, he must battle against his own worst nightmares. One after the other, bull sharks and sea sirens come at him … he must remember they...

Would you put your trust in strangers to save the ones you loved?  Would you allow an ancient prophecy to change your life? Seventeen year old Callie discovers she is an** avatar** of the powerful **Hindu Goddess Kali** and she has to save the world from Mahisha, the** King of...

"Bokwewa the Humpback" is the Indian fairy tale about two brothers. Bokwewa and his brother Kwasynd lived in a wild area. Bokwewa was the elder brother. He was considered a manito in the mortal shape. His younger brother was inquisitive and strong. They hadn't neighbors and lived happily....

From the steaming jungles of the Amazon, to the ice-bound Arctic, the Sonora Desert, and the dark forests of the Appalachian Mountains—North, Central, and South America have their own unique varieties of vampires and shape-shifting man-beasts. A rich tradition of frightening myths and ghastly folk...

George O'Connor is a Greek mythology buff and a classic superhero comics fan, and he's out to remind us how much our pantheon of superheroes (Superman, Batman, the X-Men, etc) owes to mankind's ORIGINAL superheroes: the Greek pantheon. In OLYMPIANS, O'Connor draws from primary documents to...

The story of Hera, Queen of the Gods, and the heroes who won her favor. Volume 3 of Olympians, Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory, introduces readers to the Queen of the Gods and Goddesses in the Pantheon. This volume tells the tales of the many heroes who sought and won Hera's patronage, most...

In the fifth installment of the Olympians series of graphic novels, author/artist George O'Connor turns the spotlight on that most mysterious and misunderstood of the Greek gods, Poseidon: Earth Shaker. Thrill to such famous myths as Theseus and the Minotaur, Odysseus and Polyphemos, and the founding...

This book contains three powerful stories based on myths from ancient Greece and Rome.In ‘The Horses of the Sun’ Phaethon defies his father. In ‘Love in the Morning, Love in the Evening’ Aurora wishes for her beloved to live forever. Be careful what you wish for! In'Flight', the greatest inventor...

Discover the world's most terrifying mythical creatures that have been scaring people for generations, from Beowulf's Dragon to Frankenstein and Bigfoot. Since ancient times man has invented strange creatures to populate unexplored or uninhabited areas. Mythical Monsters describes the results of active...

This story is a sequel to Jake's Crazy Christmas Adventure. Jake is a young Australian boy with a mind for adventure. It is the day after returning home from a Christmas visit with his mother to relatives in northern Norway, where he was secretly taken in a reindeer sleigh to the North Pole by an...

The Children of Odin is a classic collection of Norse Mythology, containing tales of the God Odin – a truly powerful deity associated with healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, battle, sorcery, poetry, and frenzy. Odin is attested as having many sons, most famously the god Baldr – and...

Far away on the other side of the world there lived, long ago, a lion and his younger brother, the wild cat, who were so fond of each other that they shared the same hut. The lion was much the bigger and stronger of the two indeed, he was much bigger and stronger than any of the beasts...

Where do fairytale princesses go after their happily ever after? The land of Empyrean is home to all the myths and folklore of childhood. The princesses of once upon a time became the four great queens of this land ruled by magic. Now their land is in danger. One of the queens has disappeared....