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Circe

Madeline Miller

In the halls of Helios, a Titan's daughter is born with a thin mortal voice and none of the golden shine her family prizes. Scorned, Circe finds a craft the gods insist should not exist: witchcraft, worked from herbs that grew where divine blood once fell. Exile to the island of Aiaia is meant to be a punishment. Instead it becomes a life — lions at the door, a loom, unwelcome ships, and the long work of becoming someone the stories never bothered to understand. Madeline Miller's epic follows one woman through centuries of gods, mortals, and the question of whether power is worth the isolation it costs.

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”

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