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Hades
The BookTok beloved Taking of Persephone series continues in Hades , the epic love story of the king and queen of the underworld. "Careful what you say, Goddess," he breathed, "I may not let you leave." A wicked smile spread her lips once more, "Perhaps it is you who should be careful, my king." Heavy is the head who wears the crown of the underworld. The gods of Olympus deride him even as they fear him, leaving him to rule the colorless dark in the lands of the dead. But when Thanatos disappears and Elysium begins to crumble, Hades is must leave his realm for the land of mortals to retrieve the soul of Icarus. He thinks there is nothing for him in the living world until, in a field of wildflowers, he stumbles upon a goddess who knows no fear. Her delicate grace conceals an unwavering spirit, one that may someday outgrow the lies of the gods. As their paths further intertwine, he finds the Goddess of Spring has far more to offer than dainty petals, and that her thirst for vengeance is just as insatiable as his. With more gods, shades, magic and romance, Hades delves deeper into the unforgettable love story begun in Kore from Hades' point of view.
Demeter
The BookTok beloved Taking of Persephone series continues in Demeter, with more romance and myth from the point of view of the goddess of the harvest. Demeter's life is a delicate balance, tending to her crops while raising her spirited and curious child Kore. She yearns for Kore to tread the path she has carefully laid, but fate and Kore herself have different plans, and mother and daughter soon find themselves at the cruel mercy of Zeus. Just as Demeter is poised to reveal a life-shattering secret to Kore, she awakens to find that her beloved daughter has vanished. Gripped by sorrow and anguish, Demeter embarks on her own quest to find Kore. For so long, the goddess of the harvest has kept to her tasks in the mortal world, kept her divine head down, and sheltered her daughter from the storms of Olympus. Can she face the past, disrupt her meticulously crafted existence, and venture into the chaos that threatens to consume the world? Myth made her into a villain, but Demeter has her own story to tell.
Christianizing Egypt
How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active in Egyptian culture during late antiquity. As David Frankfurter shows, members of these different social and creative worlds came to create different forms of Christianity according to their specific interests, their traditional idioms, and their sense of what the religion could offer. Reintroducing the term “syncretism” for the inevitable and continuous process by which a religion is accultu...
