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1) The fury
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ―...
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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When Eglantine "Harry" Knight sets off for Greece at the last minute to step in as manager of a friend's touring band, the last thing she expects is to meet a billionaire Greek playboy. Iakovos Papaioannou is perfection on every level, except for his unpronounceable name. And Harry can't stop herself from falling hard and fast for him. Iakovos knew his sister hired her favorite band to perform at her birthday party; he's just not sure where this six-foot-tall,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two young friends are separated by unspeakable tragedy during the Greek Civil War, haunted by a vow to return to one another and their home on the island of Corfu where queens, villagers, and goddesses come together to prove there is no force more powerful than the magic of a mother's love"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engrossing multi-generational family story, with the Greek isles as a backdrop so beautiful that the reader will want to dive in"--Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers. An irresistible, deftly observed novel about family, regret, and vacation by the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding. The Wright family...
Author
Series
Dark Olympus volume 7
Language
English
Description
"Ariadne Vitalis is in trouble. She's betrayed her father--and his benefactor--and now she's left to rely on the questionable mercy of Olympus to keep her safe. As with everything in this city, mercy comes with a price. For Ariadne, that means a marriage to Dionysus. She has no choice but to agree, even if there's only one man she's ever wanted--a man she's feared just as much as she desires. The Minotaur never had any illusions about Minos's plans....
Author
Series
Dark Olympus volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Achilles Kallis vowed that he'd do whatever it took to claw his way into Olympus's inner circle. Now that the former Ares is gone and the coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to both compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect the infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize...or for the sparks that fly when the three of them meet. Zeus may have decided Helen...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel from Ella Berman. . . . Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline's death. But that didn't stop the media from ripping apart their teenage lives like vultures. While the girls were never convicted, Joni, ever the opportunist, capitalized...
Author
Series
Dark Olympus volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now--even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet. Two can play the seduction game, however, and Hephaestus is all too happy to put his...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis"-- Provided by publisher.
"Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor,...
11) My last lament
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is a part of an evolving Greece, a country moving steadily away from its rural traditions. To capture the fading folk art of lamenting, an American researcher asks Aliki to record her laments, but in response, Aliki sings her own story. It begins in a village in northeast Greece, where Aliki witnesses the occupying Nazi soldiers execute her father for...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, two girls make a startling discovery: a young Arab man washed up on shore, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging against across the sea. When a simple plan to help the stranger goes horrifically wrong, all must face the consequences they have set in motion"-- Provided by publisher.
13) The island villa
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
324 p. : map. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the battered body of a woman is found on the Greek island of Thiminos, Athenian investigator Hermes Diaktoros inexplicably shows up to prove that the death was not an accident and find the killer. But Hermes brings mysteries of his own to this tiny, remote island.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
After the body of a boy from one of Greece's most prominent families is discovered in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the Greek Police's Special Crimes Division begins to investigate. He soon finds himself plunged into the criminal side of Athens nightlife and the shiny world of Athens high society. As he explores further, Andreas uncovers a trail of murder, corruption, and exploitation between old money and new....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
""That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me." Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair's summer love affair on a remote,...
Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
18) Outline: #1
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Publisher
Picador Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And...
19) The sleepwalkers
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon. It's the end of the season and a storm is imminent. Determined to make the best of it, they check into the sun-soaked doors of the Villa Rosa. Already feeling insecure after seeing the "beautiful people," the seemingly endless number of young models and musicians lounging along the Mediterranean, Evelyn is wary of the hotel's owner,...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the Greek Islands, three distinctive individuals uncover a plot to plunder religious treasures and unite in a quest that has implications more far-reaching than they know"-- Provided by publisher.
Texas journalist Nick Hennessy is in Europe, investigating the disappearance of invaluable Grecian antiquities. Forensic archaeologist Carey Mathers has accepted a job with the prestigious Athens Institute for Antiquities. The Greek isle of Patmos,...