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Download or read book Finding Ithaka written by Anna Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Home on Ithaka, Odysseus reflects on his life and the choices he has made. Duty bound to join the Greek expedition to Troy, his brilliant strategy ended the Trojan Wars. But the barbarity of the Greeks and the arrogance of Agamemnon their leader, cannot go unpunished by the gods. On the perilous journey home filled with strange creatures and foreign peoples, Odysseus embarks on a passionate affair with Kirke, a mysterious priestess. Now the appearance of an owl, a portent of death, threatens the palace's peace and harmony. As the kingdom faces a new peril, Odysseus must make one final decision. Dr Thea Sefton, escaping the breakdown of her marriage, joins an archaeological expedition to the Greek island of Kefalonia. It was here her Greek lover, Dimitri Kampitsis, abandoned her twenty years before. As they search for clues for the lost palace of Odysseus, Thea finds herself strangely drawn to Rob Hughes, a climate scientist. But her peace is quickly shattered after Thea discovers her former lover Dimitri is not only on the island, but is the powerful sponsor behind the archaeological venture. Past and present collide in the captivating page-turner based on genuine research. The writer takes the reader on a journey to solve an enduring archaeological mystery and retell a timeless epic classic.
Download or read book Ithaka written by Adèle Geras and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors demanding that Penelope choose a new husband, as she patiently awaits the return of Odysseus from the Trojan War.
Download or read book Ithaka Rising written by LJ Cohen and published by Interrobang Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A derelict ship and a splintered crew are not the rewards Ro had hoped for when she helped disrupt her father's plans to start a war with smuggled weapons. But with the responsibilities of full Commonwealth citizenship and limited resources, she is forced to take her father's place working as an engineer on Daedalus station while she and Barre try to repair their damaged freighter, Halcyone. Barre's brother, Jem, is struggling with the disabling effects of his head injury, unable to read or code. His only hope is to obtain a neural implant, but the specialists determine he is too young and his brain damage too extensive. When Jem disappears, his trail dead ends at the black market. Ro and Barre race to find Jem before he sells his future, risking his mind for an illegal neural implant. But they're not the only ones looking for "The Underworld" and its rogue planet, Ithaka. What they find endangers more than just the three of them and forces them to confront a very different truth about the war they believed was ancient history.
Book Synopsis Odysseus Unbound by : Robert Bittlestone
Download or read book Odysseus Unbound written by Robert Bittlestone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary story of the exciting discovery of the true location of Odysseus' homeland of Ithaca.
Download or read book Ithaka written by Sarah Saffian and published by Delta. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice on the other end of the line was soft, yet forthright: "Sarah, my name is Hannah Morgan. I think I'm your birth mother." The phone call, wholly unexpected, instantly turned Sarah Saffian's world upside-down, threatening her sense of family, identity, self. Adopted as an infant twenty-three years before, living happily in New York, Sarah had been "found" by her biological parents despite her reluctance to embrace them. In this searing, lyrical memoir, Sarah chronicles her painful journey from confusion and anger to acceptance and, finally, reunion--but not until three soul-searching years had passed. In spare, luminous prose, Sarah Saffian crafts a powerful story of self-discovery and belonging--a deeply personal memoir told with grace, eloquence, and compassion. At once heartbreaking and profoundly uplifting, Ithaka is sure to touch anyone who has grappled with who they are.
Book Synopsis Finding Ithaka by : George Theotocatos
Download or read book Finding Ithaka written by George Theotocatos and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling memoir that spans five generations and four continents, Theotocatos retraces the epic journeys of his family and ancestry who left their homes of origin and settled in new places--both by choice and in search of a safe home. Through it all, they held true to their Greek heritage and culture.As a Greek born in Egypt, the author takes us on his quest to immigrate to the United States, live the American dream and provide a better life for his children and grandchildren. A highly successful executive in the oil industry, Theotocatos' sinuous career path returned him to parts of the world near his place of birth. His story's backdrop spans Gaddafi's socialist Libya, the wealthy Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, progressive Abu Dhabi, and the of war torn lands of Kuwait.Beyond the humble retelling of his family's history, these pages portray the resiliency of the human spirit to achieve personal excellence under adverse conditions and to always appreciate the opportunities one is given.***George Theotocatos is an Exxon Company (now Exxon Mobil) retired executive. He worked for the company for 27 years. George lives with his wife in East Hampton, NY.
Download or read book How to Mars written by David Ebenbach and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality TV nightmare? "Ebenbach is more at home in the minefield of ambiguity than most of us are in our houses." ―Roy Kesey, author of Any Deadly Thing For the six lucky scientists selected by the Destination Mars! corporation, a one-way ticket to Mars--in exchange for a lifetime of research--was an absolute no-brainer. The incredible opportunity was clearly worth even the most absurdly tedious screening process. Perhaps worth following the odd protocols in a nonsensical handbook written by an eccentric billionaire. Possibly even worth the constant surveillance, which is carefully edited into a TV ratings bonanza on Earth. But it turns out that after a while even scientists can get bored of science. Tempers begin to fray; unsanctioned affairs blossom. When perfectly good equipment begins to fail, the Marsonauts are faced with a possibility that technology simply cannot explain. Irreverent, poignant, and perfectly weird, David Ebenbach's debut science-fiction outing, like a mission to Mars, is an incredible outing you will never forget.
Download or read book A Star in the Void written by LJ Cohen and published by Interrobang Books. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Control the wormholes, control the galaxy. For over fifty years, the Commonwealth's lock on wormhole transit has enabled the military government to keep its grip on commerce, travel, and the community in diaspora off Earth. But everything changed once Ro Maldonado resurrected the damaged AI on a derelict spaceship. When she and her accidental passengers aboard Halcyone stumbled upon a hidden planet and Ada May, its brilliant but reclusive leader, they became entangled with her covert resistance. But behind the scenes of the Commonwealth lurks an even bigger enemy: the Reaction Chamber, a powerful shadow organization of politicians, business moguls, and crime cartels that has co-opted and infiltrated all levels of the government. The Chamber knows Halcyone is the key to finding and eliminating the resistance. And as people close to Ro and her companions disappear or die, it's clear their enemies are closing in fast. When May vanishes through an impossible wormhole, taking the leader of the Reaction Chamber with her, she abruptly shatters a decades-old stalemate. Now Halcyone and her crew must decode May's revolutionary wormhole technology and locate the missing scientist before the Reaction Chamber obliterates the resistance and exploits its resources to seize complete control of the cosmos. A STAR IN THE VOID is the fifth and final book in the Halcyone Space series that began with the award winning DERELICT. Get it now at the special pre-order price of $2.99.
Download or read book Parallax written by LJ Cohen and published by Interrobang Books. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North of Ithaka written by Eleni N. Gage and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the poignant story of the author's move from New York to Lia--the remote Greek village where her grandmother was murdered, and which her father Nicholas Gage, made famous 20 years ago with his international bestseller "Eleni."
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 2214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy by : C.P. Cavafy
Download or read book Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy written by C.P. Cavafy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of The Lost. No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933). Whether advising Odysseus on his return to Ithaca or confronting the poet with the ghosts of his youth, these verses brilliantly make the historical personal—and vice versa. To his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, Cavafy brings the historian’s assessing eye along with the poet’s compassionate heart. After more than a decade of work and study, Mendelsohn—a classicist who alone among Cavafy’s translators shares the poet’s deep intimacy with the ancient world—gives readers full access to the genius of Cavafy’s verse: the sensuous rhymes, rich assonances, and strong rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators. Complete with the Unfinished Poems that Cavafy left in drafts when he died—a remarkable, hitherto unknown discovery that remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades—and with an in-depth introduction and a helpful commentary that situates each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context, this revelatory translation is a cause for celebration: the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.
Book Synopsis The Dove in the Stone by : Alice O. Howell
Download or read book The Dove in the Stone written by Alice O. Howell and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Jungian lecturer and astrologer searches for the sacred in the commonplace on a Celtic pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, in Scotland. "Iona," the Hebrew word for dove, became home to St. Columba, whose name in Latin means dove, in the year 563 on the Eve of the Pentecost -- the day of the ascent of the Holy Spirit in the Christian calendar, also symbolized by a dove. And so the narrative goes on, finding synchronicities of understanding at every turn.
Book Synopsis Afternoons in Ithaka by : Spiri Tsintziras
Download or read book Afternoons in Ithaka written by Spiri Tsintziras and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming memoir of self-discovery, family, connection and the power of a tomato. 'I remember crusty just-baked bread, rubbed with juicy tomato flesh, swimming in a puddle of thick green olive oil. I am seven years old. I sit on a stool in my grandmother's house. It is the height of summer in a seaside village in the south of Greece. We little Aussies devour 'tomato sandwiches' as the family chats and laughs and swats flies ...' From the first heady taste of tomatoes on home-baked bread in her mother's village in Petalidi, to sitting at a taverna some 30 years later in Ithaka with her young family, Spiri tsintziras goes on a culinary, creative and spiritual journey that propels her back and forth between Europe and Australia. these evocative, funny and poignant stories explore how food and culture, language and music, and people and their stories help to create a sense of meaning and identity.
Book Synopsis From Surviving to Thriving: A Mother's Journey Through Infertility, Loss and Miracles by : Fabiana Bacchini
Download or read book From Surviving to Thriving: A Mother's Journey Through Infertility, Loss and Miracles written by Fabiana Bacchini and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After living through an emotionally turbulent journey of infertility and the birth of one son, Fabiana was thrilled to discover that she was pregnant again, this time with twins. She did not expect to encounter a tumultuous road until she was told that one of her twins had no chance of survival. Then, only weeks later, she gave birth prematurely. Her surviving twin spent months in a neonatal intensive care unit and later became a child with special needs. From Surviving to Thriving is about finding the joy; making the choice to see hope where others only see despair, pain, loss, and sorrow. The book teaches the reader valuable life lessons, including how to face any adverse event and find something to be thankful for. One can only feel inspired and connected with Fabiana as she recounts how she took her family on a journey from surviving to thriving.
Book Synopsis Coming Home to Story by : Geoff Mead
Download or read book Coming Home to Story written by Geoff Mead and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories take us into other worlds so that we may experience our own more deeply. Master storyteller Geoff Mead brings the reader inside the experience of telling and listening to a story. He shows how stories and storytelling engage our imaginations, strengthen communities and bring adventure and joy into our lives. The narrative is interspersed with consummate retellings of traditional tales from all over the world.
Book Synopsis Communication and Media Ethics by : Patrick Lee Plaisance
Download or read book Communication and Media Ethics written by Patrick Lee Plaisance and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in communication and media has arguably reached a pivotal stage of maturity in the last decade, moving from disparate lines of inquiry to a theory-driven, interdisciplinary field presenting normative frameworks and philosophical explications for communicative practices. The intent of this volume is to present this maturation, to reflect the vibrant state of ethics theorizing and to illuminate promising pathways for future research.
