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1) Middlesex
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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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Seventeen-year-old Evan struggles to deal with his mother's abuse and his new feelings for his friend Henry.
Evan Panos's strict immigrant Greek mother sees him as a disappointment. His workaholic father is a staunch believer in avoiding any kind of conflict. And his best friend, Henry, has somehow become distractingly attractive over the summer. His only escape is drawing, in an abandoned monastery that feels as lonely as he is. And Henry makes...
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"The entire family has been put to work when a big fat Greek wedding rehearsal is booked at the Parthenon. All hands are needed for rolling grape leaves, layering moussaka, and keeping the bride calm. But then the groom goes M.I.A. and there's far more to worry about than just whether Yiayia's lemon rice soup has gone cold. No matter how tangy the tzatziki, everyone's appetite is ruined when the groom is found dead, a pair of scissors planted in his...
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Much to the dismay of her Greek family, Zanna Krykos makes a living as a lawyer in Tarpon Springs, Florida. When her friend Lucy needs legal advice about the business she inherited upon her father's passing, she ends up asking Zanna to run the business instead so she can focus on her medical career. Nico Kalos is a Greek diver who has worked on sponging boats in the Aegean Sea since the age of 14, giving him a vast knowledge of the trade. When he...
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"Athena has invited Case Donnelly, recently relocated from Pittsburgh and awaiting his PI license, to accompany her to a Save Our Dunes fundraiser and art festival. And her date proves helpful when the body of a disgraced photographer turns up during a nature walk. The crime- -and the photos taken by the dead man--raise a lot of questions about local politics, environmental battles, and the victim's womanizing ways. As Athena's endearing Greek-American...
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"In this delightful new series by the New York Times bestselling author of the Flower Shop Mysteries, Athena Spencer comes back home to work with her crazy big Greek family at their garden center. But she never expected a return to her roots would mean protecting her family from murder . . . After her divorce, Athena has returned to coastal Michigan to work in her family's garden center and raise her son, while also caring for a mischievous wild raccoon...
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Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
When Frankie Bennett finds out her husband, famous chef and star of Mitch in the Kitchen is cheating on her, she loses her mind.
During a broadcast of the show-on live TV...
Now she's divorced, broke and living in her aunt's retirement village with very little will left to do anything but hide under the covers in her aunt's guest bedroom with her dog Kiki.
That is until Maxine Henderson-Barker, one-time...
12) Just our luck
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"Leo has always been told to stay away from Evey Paros, but after his anxiety disorder causes a fight at school, he has no choice but to ask for her help"--
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Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father--a professor and leading expert on Greek mythology, and Elektra can't understand why. For her, life is tragedy, and all signs point to her family being cursed.
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Thirty-eight-year-old Xeni is secretly praying for a virgin birth. But when she unexpectedly falls for a free-spirited new mother during sumptuous Greek cooking lessons, she begins to reconcile her religious beliefs with her emerging sexuality -- and come to terms with the fact that love is ultimately the highest power.
15) Middlesex
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„Monumentalną sagę o kazirodztwie pisał osiem lat, ale warto było. Na powieść Middlesex spłynęła lawina nagród, z Pulitzerem na czele". Newsweek Polska
„Jedna z ciekawszych amerykańskich powieści ostatnich lat, wyróżniona Nagrodą Pulitzera w 2002 roku. Zaczyna się jak lesbijski romans—nastolatka odkrywa fascynację koleżanką. Ale to dopiero początek szaleńczej rodzinnej sagi, z genetycznymi mutacjami, imperium tureckim,
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"Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants."--Provided by publisher.
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"Stavros Stavros Mavrakis, Greek immigrant and proud owner of the Gala Diner, believes he has just ten days to live. As he prepares for his final hours, he sends a scathing email to his ex-wife and three grown daughters, outlining his wishes for how they each might better live their lives. With varying degrees of laughter and scorn, his family and friends dismiss his behavior as nothing more than a plea for attention, but when Stavros disappears,...