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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
While in Athens, Rebecca--young, beautiful and lost--finds a confidant in George, a translator whose closest friends are Aristophanes and Jack Daniels, but their blossoming relationship becomes complicated when they meet Henry, a happy-go-lucky archaeologist who changes their lives forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cr�eme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
During the 2004 Athens Olympics, a missing girl leads PI Alex Mavros to a pagan ritual and a ring of powerful, devious men in this "absorbing" mystery (Publishers Weekly).
As the 2004 Olympics crowds the city of Athens, it seems a more sinister game is afoot. Half-Greek, half-Scots PI Alex Mavros has just been offered a very peculiar assignment. Angie Poulou wants him to find her missing fourteen-year-old daughter. The
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating and transporting travel novel, Scorpionfish reveals how what we leave behind may be exactly what we've been looking for all along. After the unexpected deaths of her parents, young academic Mira returns to her childhood home in Athens. On her first night back, she encounters a new neighbor, a longtime ship captain who has found himself, for the first time in years, no longer at sea. As one summer night tumbles into another, Mira and...
Author
Series
Laetitia Talbot mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Set in 4th century BC Athens, this is the story of a student named Stephanos who narrates the way his teacher Aristotle provides Sherlock Holmes-like powers of deduction to help solve a murder. The action-packed story includes murderous attacks at night and an escape from the city in disguise, but all is informed by research about life in ancient (332 BC) Athens: homes, citizenship, olive culture, pottery, women, the legal system, and more. Readers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In 399 B.C. in Athens, thirteen-year-old Pandora dreads her upcoming marriage to a man twice her age, but a chance meeting with the philosopher Socrates encourages her to question traditional female roles and to seek her own truth.
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