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A Terrible Unrest

A Terrible Unrest
  • Author(s): Philip Duke
  • Location(s): Crete, Colorado
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Early twentieth century

When Spiro, Maria and Anna Andrakis, a young immigrant family from Greece, are unwillingly thrust into the maelstrom of the Colorado Coalfield War, the most brutal labour conflict in American history, they must overcome a series of tragedies that...

A Wander Through the Village: The Greek Village Handbook

A Wander Through the Village: The Greek Village Handbook
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grigoris sits under his olive tree, reluctant to go home and face the wrath of his wife, Lena… He’s not been able to sell the oranges this year, and she’s going to furious!!! Just then, a little green fly...

A Wedding in the Olive Garden

A Wedding in the Olive Garden
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A warm and uplifting novel about love, friendship and new beginnings on the beautiful Greek island of Santaniki. Sara Loveday flees home and crisis to the beautiful island of Santaniki. Here, amid olive groves and whitewashed stone villas, where...

A World on Fire

A World on Fire
  • Author(s): James Heneage
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1820s

Greece, 1824 In the wild south, the people of the Mani have risen up against four hundred years of Ottoman rule. But initial triumph leads to bitter feuding among the Greek victors and the Sultan sends his vassal, Ibrahim...

A,B and E

A,B and E
  • Author(s): Marc Nash
  • Location(s): Kavos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A gangster’s moll in fear of her life hides out among the Club 18-30 tourists on Kavos. A book about exile and longing and repugnance when your old country comes to party where you currently reside.

Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir

Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gauci
  • Location(s): Greek Islands
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After more than thirty years as a successful carpet and textile designer, Kathryn decided it was time for a change: she wanted to become an author, and the first place she turned for inspiration was Greece, where she had...

Among the Olive Groves

Among the Olive Groves
  • Author(s): Chrissie Parker
  • Location(s): Zakynthos (Zante)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War Two

Elena Petrakis adores living on the Greek island of Zakynthos. When World War Two looms her way of life is threatened. Left with no choice she joins the island’s resistance to fight for what she believes in; her family,...

An Accidental Odyssey (An Exlibris Adventure)

An Accidental Odyssey (An Exlibris Adventure)
  • Author(s): kc dyer
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean, Athens, Capri, Ithaka (Ithaca), Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gianna Kostas is on the cusp of a fairy-tale life. Sure, she’s just lost her job, but she’s about to marry one of New York’s most eligible bachelors. On her way to taste wedding cakes, though, things go sideways....

An Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir

An Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gauci
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2005

From USA TODAY Bestselling author Kathryn Gauci comes a vivid memoir of her life and travels across the ancient and spectacular islands of Greece. “I would be like Odysseus, wandering in search of adventure. How it would turn out,...

An Island in the Sun

An Island in the Sun
  • Author(s): Holly Greene
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Sit back, relax and escape to the sun-drenched Greek island of Crete, with another summer story from the bestselling author of SUMMER IN SORRENTO & more. Ellie thinks she’s landed her dream job when she takes up a marketing...

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