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Little Marcos returns to the 20th century Santorini, many years after his last visit. He is now a teenager who will come face to face with the story of Life itself; a story which flows ceaselessly forming circles... He will learn that love and friendship are two interwoven knots. In those magical places - a precious gift to the unique island of Santorini by Nature’s own mania Marcos will learn how much Love’s waiting hurts; he will love the blindness of Hope, he will feel the flow of Time stretching like a string right through his very heart, carrying him into another time…...

[...] And I am still searching, when the wild geese fly by, to distinguish whether or not their flock is still lead by the same leader, Akka from Kebnekaise... Then I hurrently seek to make out Iksi and Kaksi, Kolme and Neljia, Niisi and Kuusi and Morten the White male tame Goose... [...] [...] And ''that thing'' was no other than the cute mini skirt by Mary Quant, the British fashion designer. Joan bought it on her last return from New York when she stopped for a couple of days in London, as she tended to say, even if she stayed there for a week. She had kept it in her...

"Imagine what it would feel like if you lived on a planet that only offered partial, or no free will at all. You would be living a predetermined existence in an easy and comfortable life where others made all of your decisions for you, and that was just the way you liked it. But then, all of a sudden, a very powerful bad guy appears on the scene and everything in your, previously routine life, changes?" What makes this book so exciting, are the changes and unpredictable developments in every chapter. In order for Ezerstenia to receive the energy of free will, (a privile...

"...on the island of Atlantis there was a great and incredible empire..." (Plato: Timaeus) What could cosmopolitan Santorini and the lost Atlantis possibly have in common? Two stories separated by thousands of years, but drawn together by something much greater. A discovery made on Santorini today could potentially change the history of the human race for ever. On this same island three and a half thousand years ago, a desperate struggle took place in legendary Atlantis; a struggle to save a people and a civilisation. The two stories and their characters run a parall...

The "Murderess" has been regarded as Alexandros Papadiamandis’s finest work. Set on his native island of Skiathos it tells the story of Hadoula, a widow with grown-up children, who has convinced herself that it is better little girls should leave this life when young so that they and their parents should not suffer the trials that inevitably would be inflicted on them by an inequitable society. In the throes of this misguided compassion she first murders her own granddaughter and afterwards finds herself set on a course she is unable to stop despite the promptings of her co...

This book is about the story of a young American adventurer, the son of a billionaire. He arrives in a European country with a view to overthrowing the government and overtaking his father's business. This character is the "canvas" on which the author, John Bakalis, narrates a story of adventure, adversity and suspense. Acts of violence, terrorists, politics. Poetry. A great romance. Social conflicts. A story that could be utterly true. "The North of Greece" - newspaper

The Spartans may be thought of as the Samurais of the Western World. They led a frugal life, trained daily for battle and war, and sought to attain knowledge and divinity through a frugal and abstinent life. This book does not intend to provide a "description" of the Spartans, but walk with them, in an esoteric way, to the endless pursuit of virtue, a virtue that leads to a transcendent mortal world. The "vehicle" for this course is provided by an event mentioned by Herodotus, the "father of history". It is known through Herodotus that the Spartans at Thermopylae were s...

The novel encompasses the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Nikos, a young man, the son of a rich merchant who has eloped with the daughter of his business partner, leaves his Zagoria village in the Epirus region of north-west Greece in search of a better fate. His fascinating journey takes him first to Mytilene and then to Smyrna. In this cosmopolitan crossroads, a melting-pot of nationalities, cultures and beliefs, Nikos, who has now become Nikos - Efendi, makes a name for himself and becomes an influential member of society thanks to his wealth, acqu...

This work was inspired by a dream the writer he had while sleeping one night. It was such an intense and unusual dream that it put gave the writer many thoughts. The same dream was repeated and, in the end, it became a vision. This dreamy vision led him to a daily recording of these events. His communication every night with people and other personalities who have left Earth long ago approach the area of the supernatural. Also, dialogues and events come to surface, the ones which prevailed in life in the past to prove to us, in their own way, that in the end, nothing is eve...

Five men and one woman found asylum at the retirement home of Athens. They are known personalities and they talk about their lives. Markella, who is the main character of this book, played a major role in the protection of the European Community interests. She describes her struggle through the conspiracies and external agents of the International Capital. They tried to kill her on several occasions. All events unfold in Paris and Brussels. American agents that represent the Voracious cooperate with the underground, cause turmoil and homicides right in the center of Eur...

Υπήρξε μια περίοδος που τα τείχη που χώριζαν την Ανατολή από τη Δύση θρυμματίσθηκαν και κατέρρευσαν. Υπήρξε μια εποχή που οι ιαπωνικές εταιρείες μάζευαν τα αμερικανικά και τα ευρωπαϊκά τρόπαια το ένα μετά το άλλο. Και υπήρξε ένας καιρός που οι μούσες, οι εννιά αδελφές θεότητες, κατέβηκαν στη Γη για να στήσουν τον ερωτικό τους χορό, και τότε είναι που αρχίζει αυτή η ιστορία. Μια παρέκταση της σύγκρουσης ανάμεσα σε δύο υπερδυνάμεις στην εποχή της Ψυχρής Ειρήνης, το "When Greece turned into a little Japan" βάζει τον αναγνώστη επάνω σε ένα τεράστιο ορμητικό κύμα που ακολουθεί μ...

Artbazos, now satrap of Daskyleion, continues his narrative begun in "Artabazos the Persian". On the first line of Persia's defense against the Greek counterattack, he struggles to confront the Greeks as well as his personal foes in Persia. He fights against the most prominent Greeks, Pausanias, Kimon, Callias and the greatest of all, Themistocles, who arrives at the Persian court as an exile. Enmity is transformed into mutual respect and a deep friendship develops between the two men, united by their common quest and love for truth. A story full of confrontation, adventure...

1339. A dark and difficult time. Romania is rent by disputes among warring royal houses striving for ascendancy. Knights errant, blood-thirsty nobles, scheming courtiers and mysterious travelers in the night play leading parts in a bloody game of supremacy. The monk Dimitris Spartino, one of the last survivors of the patrician Spartinos family, is forced to flee when a man of royal descent slays his brother and tries to murder him as well. As ha and his retinue are trying to make their ay to Constantinople, he encounters an enigmatic creature that is worshipped as a god, th...

Who was Alexius Comnenus who would wage war in East and West to save Byzantium from the edge of the abyss? Who were the woman who loved him? Who was it who tried to poison him? Why did his daughter, Anna Comnena, hate her brother, John, the co-Emperor? Why did his wife, Irene Duca, promote Nicephorus Bryennius for the throne? People and events; failures, tears and sorrows, hopes, visions that faded, joys evaporated, meanness and passion. "Come Forth, King" attempts to revive the final glimmer of Byzantium and to take us back on a journey to those difficult years through...

This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? Is it a roman fleuve in the sense of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past? Is it a wild prose-poetic fling in a "sarcastic climate"? Or is it an autobiography of Greece's most human poet, whom Aragon hailed as the "greatest poet of his time"? And what about the strange title? How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by anonymous human beings? - everyday people from Ritsos' neighbourhood; members of his large fa...

This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? Is it a roman fleuve in the sense of the Proust's "Remembrance of things past"? Is it a wild prose-poetic fling in a "sarcastic climate"? Or is it an autobiography of Greece's most human poet, whom Aragon hailed as the "greatest poet of his time"? And what about the strange title? How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by anonymous human beings? -everyday people from Ritsos' neighbourhood members of his fami...

Farewell Anatolia is a tale of paradise lost and of shattered innocence; a tragic fresco of the fall of Hellenism in Asia Minor; a stinging indictment of Great Power politics, oil-lust and corruption. Dido Sotiriou's novel - a perennial best seller in Greece since it first appeared in 1962 - tells the story of Manolis Axiotis , a poor but resourceful villager born near the ancient ruins of Ephesus. Axiotis is a fictional protagonist and eyewitness to an authentic nightmare: Greece's "Asia Minor Catastrophe", the death or expulsion of two million Greeks from Turkey by Kem...