Alameddine, Rabih
Summary: "Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being soclose to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALAForsyth, Kate
Summary: Set in Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction ForsythBrown, James William
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROZouroudi, Anne.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZOUWelch, Jenna Evans
Summary: Liv Varanakis's father fled to Greece when she was only eight. What Liv does remember is their shared love for Greek myths and the lost city of Atlantis. When she receives a postcard from her father explaining that National Geographic is funding a documentary about his theories on Atlantis, she jumps at the chance to fly out to Greece and help. On gorgeous Santorini, Liv doesn't want their past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WELMillar, Martin.
Summary: "Aristophanes is inconsolable-his rival playwrights are hogging all the local attention, a pesky young wannabe poet won't leave him alone, his actors can't remember their lines, and his own festival sponsor seems to be conspiring against him, withholdingdirely needed funds for set design and, most importantly, giant phallus props. O woe, how can his latest comedy convince Athenian citizens to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILOsborne, Lawrence
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBRosen, Lev AC
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Tennessee Russo's life is imploding. His boyfriend has been cheating on him, and all his friends know about it. Worse, they expect him to just accept his ex's new relationship and make nice. So when his father, a famous archaeologist and reality show celebrity whom he hasn't seen in two years, shows up unexpectedly and offers to take him on an adventure, Tennessee only has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square and Co. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROSFurst, Alan.
Summary: As war approaches northern Greece, the spies begin to circle--from the Turkish legation to the German secret service. In the ancient port of Salonika, Costa Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special "political" cases, risks everything to secure an escape route for those hunted by the Gestapo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUROsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: No girls allowed at the Olympic Games! That's the rule when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to ancient Greece. But when Annie tells Jack to go to the games without her, he knows she's up to something. Will Annie find a way to see the games? Or will she get herself--and Jack--into Olympic-size trouble?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: A bold reimaging of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LYOCorporon, Yvette Manessis
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORFowles, John
Summary: Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FowlesRoberts, Nora
Summary: Impulse: For once in her life, Rebecca Malone is following her heart. After quitting her job and selling all her belongings, she heads to Greece in search of adventure. So when a sexy local restaurant owner pursues her, she can't resist playing the role of sophisticated, well-traveled woman. But falling in love with Stephen Nickodemus was not part of the plan! Now she'll have to find a way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silhouette Books, published by Silhouette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBJohnston, Paul
Summary: Hired by the wife of one of Greece's richest men to find her missing fourteen-year-old daughter, half Greek, half Scots PI, Alex Mavros faces an uphill battle. But he's not the only one looking for Lia. When a man's charred corpse is discovered in a remote farmhouse, and the headless body of another is found in the ancient stadium at Delphi, Mavros confronts the possibility that one of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHHanson, Victor Davis.
Contents: Pt. 1. Holy Leuktra -- pt. 2. Between peace and war -- pt. 3. The march down country -- pt. 4. Freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANCaldwell, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Dress Ink 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALMichaelides, Alex
Summary: "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 one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to her private Greek island. You may think you know this story. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity, a private island, and a murder. We found ourselves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC MICGould, Judith.
Summary: After her father's suicide, Tracey Sullivan finds her birth certificate with a different name and a photograph of the mother who abandoned her, and Tracey recognizes her as Urania Vickers, a famous movie star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GOUZouroudi, Anne.
Summary: Gabrilis Kaloyeros is a bee-keeper on the beautiful Greek island of Arcadia. The ruined Temple of Apollo has been in his care for decades, and he has worked to protect it. But when crooked developers take over the island and the value of the land soars, he is persuaded through unscrupulous means to sign away his interest. Hours later he meets a violent, lonely death. When detective Hermes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZOUMichaelides, Alex
Summary: Spending Easter with Lana Farrar, a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world, on her idyllic private Greek island, her guests, concealing hatred and desire for revenge, become trapped when the night ends in violence and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEStilton, Thea
Summary: " While on vacation in Greece, the Thea Sisters make friends with a company of actors who are rehearsing for a play that's about to open. When an actress sprains her ankle, Colette ends up standing in for her! But suddenly, right before the performance, the lead actor goes missing. Can the mouselets find him in time for the show to go on?" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Series Stilton 2014Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STIMacAlister, Katie.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACSiger, Jeffrey.
Summary: When the body of a boy from one of Greece's prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis of the special crimes division is certain there's a message in the murder. But who sent it and why?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010