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A "novel about loyalty, love, and resilience in the face of tremendous upheaval--a saga of survival set during the 1974 Cypriot coup d'état that tells the intersecting stories of three families whose lives are decimated when brewing ethnic tensions erupt into conflict"--Amazon.com.
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Songs of Penelope volume 2
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"On the isle of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace--a peace that is shattered by the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra. Orestes' hands are stained with his mother's blood. Not so long ago, the son of Agamemnon took Queen Clytemnestra's life on Ithaca's...
48) The island villa
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"Celebrated romance author Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for decades, though her personal story hasn't been quite so successful. Three failed marriages have left her relationship with her daughters strained, but that's about to be rectified. Engaged yet again, Catherine is counting on this wedding to be what finally brings them together as a family, and she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Adeline doesn't know what's...
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"It is 1908 and Smyrna is the most cosmopolitan city on the Mediterranean Sea. Though long a part of the Ottoman Empire, Smyrna has always been Greek, and its citizens honor the traditions of previous generations. The Demirigis and Melopoulos families are no different, and now Liana Demirigis will wed the only Melopoulos son, Vassili--a marriage arranged by her parents. After the wedding, Liana and Vassili build an idyllic life for themselves and...
51) Undercover wolf
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"When an international security threat emerges in Paris, alpha werewolf Harley Grant and the Special Threat Assessment Team lead the investigation. Harley is hesitant to use her wolf abilities, but she's sure she smells the work of a supernatural suspect. She soon finds she's not the only alpha on the scene. The MI6 joins STAT, eager to help squash the insurgents. But agent Sawyer Bishop has a secret--he's a werewolf. He would give anything to work...
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Greetings from somewhere volume 10
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"Twins Ethan and Ella go on an adventure in Greece, where they learn about the mystery-solving Society of Apollo"--
54) Goddess
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"On a flight to New York at the end of her first book tour, up-and-coming writer Agnes Oliver meets Jack Verity, the handsome filmmaker and ex-husband of Geia Stone, a famous actress turned wellness guru, whose popular lifestyle brand Goddess promotes controversial therapies and expensive beauty tools in the name of self-care and inner nourishment. Jack invites Agnes to a party in the Hamptons, where she meets Geia and finds herself welcomed into...
56) Burning the map
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The choices Casey Evers has made in her twenty-six years aren't exactly making her happy. In fact, her life is so on course—college, law school, boyfriend, job offer—that it's actually off. So, before she slides into fourteen-hour days at a Chicago law firm, she heads to Rome and Greece with her two best friends for one last hurrah. The thing is, her best friends haven't really been all that close to her since she started seeing John two...
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Set in contemporary Greece, with a gay Greek-American FBI agent, who is undercover on the island to investigate a series of mysterious fires. Set against the very real refugee crisis on the beautiful, sun-drenched Greek islands, this novel paints a loving portrait of a community in crisis. As the island residents grapple with declining tourism, poverty, refugees, family feuds, and a perilously damaged church, an arsonist invades their midst.
58) Devil of Delphi
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Delphi once stood at the center of the world, where kings and warriors journeyed to hear its Oracle speak. Athenian Kharon chooses modern Delphi to rebuild his life but his assassin's skills so in demand, that his fate does not rest entirely in his own hands. Greece is being flooded with bomba: counterfeits of the most celebrated alcoholic beverages and wine brands and the woman behind the conspiracy demands Kharon's skills. Chief Inspector Kaldis...
59) At any cost
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"Athens-based chief inspector Andreas Kaldis receives a hysterical phone call from his sister, Gavriella, with the distressing news that her daughter, Anna, who's been a college student in horrific New York for only a month, is getting married! Her fiance, nine years Anna's senior, is software engineer Jacob "Jack" Diamantopoulos, born in Greece but now living in Brooklyn. At the request of Kaldis, who's Anna's godfather, Anna and Jack agree to a...
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Twelve hundred British soldiers are isolated and waiting to die on the small island of Kheros, off the Turkish coast. Their lives can be saved if only the long-range, large-caliber, and catastrophically accurate guns of Navarone are silenced before the British Royal Navy arrives.