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The Thread Of Life

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"Fate: the thread of life" is a love story based on real events that spans three countries and transcends many wars and tragic separations over more than a century. In this novel written by Alan and Dimitra Apostolopoulos, destiny acts as a keen architect, weaving the lives of the characters in unimaginable ways. It is a tale of faith and resilience, demonstrating how the thread of life connects ... Read more

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"Fate: the thread of life" is a love story based on real events that spans three countries and transcends many wars and tragic separations over more than a century. In this novel written by Alan and Dimitra Apostolopoulos, destiny acts as a keen architect, weaving the lives of the characters in unimaginable ways. It is a tale of faith and resilience, demonstrating how the thread of life connects
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Stoned

Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World

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A history of human desire and how we decide what is precious, this New York Times bestseller "romps through the stories of eight jewels" ( New York Times ).What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and... ... Read more

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A history of human desire and how we decide what is precious, this New York Times bestseller "romps through the stories of eight jewels" ( New York Times ).What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless? And why do we covet beautiful things? In this brilliant account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history, jeweler and scientist Aja Raden tells an original and...
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Blue Thirst

Tales of Life Abroad

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A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century's most mesmerizing speakers, the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero's Cell, was no more. In the ... Read more

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A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century's most mesmerizing speakers, the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero's Cell, was no more. In the
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Echoes from the Cobblestones

A Memoir

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Nicholas A. Kefalides recalls a time when the heavy boots of invading armies echoed off the cobblestone streets of Greece, where he was born and spent his childhood and youth. Kefalides memories begin with the 1930s as social and political events shaped his attitudes and beliefs. It was also a period that set the stage for a war that would see people starve, fight and die. As German and Italian ... Read more

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Nicholas A. Kefalides recalls a time when the heavy boots of invading armies echoed off the cobblestone streets of Greece, where he was born and spent his childhood and youth. Kefalides memories begin with the 1930s as social and political events shaped his attitudes and beliefs. It was also a period that set the stage for a war that would see people starve, fight and die. As German and Italian
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Mothers and Sons

A Memoir

by Theodor Kallifatides ...

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**A Best Book of 2024 by The New YorkerAn aging writer’s love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family’s history in Greece and in exile.**Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old mother, who still resides in Athens. Both know that this may be one of their last ... Read more

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**A Best Book of 2024 by The New YorkerAn aging writer’s love letter to his elderly mother, this achingly beautiful work of autofiction traces their family’s history in Greece and in exile.**Theodor Kallifatides, an acclaimed Greek author exiled in Sweden for more than 4 decades at age 68, visits his 92-year-old mother, who still resides in Athens. Both know that this may be one of their last
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Dandelions for Dinner

Greece at War and a Family’S Dreams of America

by Sam P. Stamatis, Peter S. Stamatis ...

What happens to a family already on the brink of disaster when the world around them crumbles?Dandelions for Dinner presents a memoir set in the sleepy town of Gargaliani, Greece, spanning the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the Greek Civil War of the 1940s. Told through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy, it is an epic tale of youth, family, poverty, war, and unjust loss. It is ... Read more

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What happens to a family already on the brink of disaster when the world around them crumbles?Dandelions for Dinner presents a memoir set in the sleepy town of Gargaliani, Greece, spanning the last quarter of the nineteenth century through the Greek Civil War of the 1940s. Told through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy, it is an epic tale of youth, family, poverty, war, and unjust loss. It is
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Hitler's Orphan: Demetri of Kalavryta

by Marc Zirogiannis ...

This historical novella is set in the famed Greek village of Kalavryta, the site of one of the worst massacres in the history of World War II. Panagiotis and Vasiliki Zirogiannis are met with the realities of Italian and, later, Nazi occupation of their beloved, little village in the Greek countryside. Against the backdrop or war, rebellion, and tragedy they try to affirm their love and protect ... Read more

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This historical novella is set in the famed Greek village of Kalavryta, the site of one of the worst massacres in the history of World War II. Panagiotis and Vasiliki Zirogiannis are met with the realities of Italian and, later, Nazi occupation of their beloved, little village in the Greek countryside. Against the backdrop or war, rebellion, and tragedy they try to affirm their love and protect
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Women on Fire

Edited by Lorna Kalaw-Tirol ...

Maybe this time we could be intimate, as in secrets—not necessarily of the boudoir, but as in dreams and fantasies, fears and angsts, above all, passions. What are the passions—the forces, the causes, the “special enthusiasms” (to borrow a phrase from life's passages guru Gail Sheehy)—that are driving women in their midlife? And if one of those passions happens to be sexual, how lucky can one get? ... Read more

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Maybe this time we could be intimate, as in secrets—not necessarily of the boudoir, but as in dreams and fantasies, fears and angsts, above all, passions. What are the passions—the forces, the causes, the “special enthusiasms” (to borrow a phrase from life's passages guru Gail Sheehy)—that are driving women in their midlife? And if one of those passions happens to be sexual, how lucky can one get?
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News from The Village

Aegean Friends

by David Mason ...

A memoir of friendship, history, and longing in a Greek village that "introduces us to a rich cast of writers and ex-pats, shepherds and urbanites" (A.E. Stallings, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist).In his twenties, an American manual laborer and poet found himself living with his beautiful wife in a village in southern Greece. Their first encounter with that country would prove an unrecoverable ... Read more

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A memoir of friendship, history, and longing in a Greek village that "introduces us to a rich cast of writers and ex-pats, shepherds and urbanites" (A.E. Stallings, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry finalist).In his twenties, an American manual laborer and poet found himself living with his beautiful wife in a village in southern Greece. Their first encounter with that country would prove an unrecoverable
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Fatima's Secret: The Catholic Church & The Fatima Pilgrimage

by Albert Jack ...

The Prophecy of Our Lady of Fatima (and the mad Catholics)On 13 July 1917, three children were startled to find a mysterious figure approaching them as they tended their flock of sheep in pastureland near Fatima in Portugal. Lucia dos Santos and her two cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto reported seeing what they described as a 'pretty lady from Heaven'.Lucia said the lady was 'brighter than the ... Read more

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The Prophecy of Our Lady of Fatima (and the mad Catholics)On 13 July 1917, three children were startled to find a mysterious figure approaching them as they tended their flock of sheep in pastureland near Fatima in Portugal. Lucia dos Santos and her two cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto reported seeing what they described as a 'pretty lady from Heaven'.Lucia said the lady was 'brighter than the
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The Fall of Athens

by Gail Holst-Warhaft ...

This collection of poetry and prose about Greece reflects the bleak state of present-day Athens and reminds the reader that there is nothing new about Greece’s suffering. Combining present observations with portraits of the Greek musicians and writers, Holst-Warhaft’s book is both a peon of praise for the music and poetry that the author first discovered in the Greece of the 1960’s, and a reminder ... Read more

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This collection of poetry and prose about Greece reflects the bleak state of present-day Athens and reminds the reader that there is nothing new about Greece’s suffering. Combining present observations with portraits of the Greek musicians and writers, Holst-Warhaft’s book is both a peon of praise for the music and poetry that the author first discovered in the Greece of the 1960’s, and a reminder
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City of Ulysses

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Translated by Jethro Soutar, Annie McDermott ...

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A man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses is their story, and the city's love story besides. It is a story that leads readers down multiple paths, through myth and history, reality and fantasy, literature and the visual arts, the past and the present, male and female relations, the crisis of civilisation and the need to reimagine the world. ... Read more

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A man and a woman meet in Lisbon and fall in love. City of Ulysses is their story, and the city's love story besides. It is a story that leads readers down multiple paths, through myth and history, reality and fantasy, literature and the visual arts, the past and the present, male and female relations, the crisis of civilisation and the need to reimagine the world.
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