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4) Three Junes
Author
Language
English
Description
In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as...
7) A sea apart
Publisher
Terra Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
"Eleni lives the American dream with two children and successful husband. Alas, the toils [sic] of her rebellious daughter, mischievous son, and indifferent husband leaves her nostalgic about her childhood on the beautiful Greek island of Karpathos. As if from her subconsicous desires, Aris, her childhood love, has come to Los Angeles to find Eleni and take her back to a simple life in Paradise"--Container insert.
Author
Language
English
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Description
" Katerina longs to know why her late grandmother, Miriam, refused to talk about the past, especially when she inherits a journal and handwritten letters stashed in a wooden spice box, cryptic treasures written in Armenian, Miriam's mother tongue. On vacation in Cyprus, Katerina finds the key to unlocking her grandmother's secrets and discovers a family legacy of exile and loss. Aged seven, Miriam was expelled from her home in Eastern Turkey...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island... Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again--this time, their grandchildren. In order to escape, they decide to run away to Greece together for a year. At first, settled on a glorious island, barefoot and contented, they think they've rediscovered the wheel....
10) Flights
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...
11) Mamma mia!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
12) Swallow's dance
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A priestess by birth on the Bronze Age island that is now Santorini, Leira finds her coming-of-age training cut short when an earthquake destroys her town and leaves her powerful mother disabled. Warned by an oracle that worse is yet to come, the family flees to Crete but finds no sanctuary. A tsunami sends the island into anarchy and Leira must hide her noble status and learn new kinds of strength to help what remains of her family to survive."--Provided...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie premiered, you're invited back to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new musical sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks. The film's original cast returns, with new additions including Lily James as a young Donna, Andy Garcia and Oscar winner Cher.
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