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Book Synopsis The Good Greek Girl by : Maria Katsonis
Download or read book The Good Greek Girl written by Maria Katsonis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you hear the one about the good Greek girl who walked into a tattoo parlour to celebrate the anniversary of her discharge from a psych hospital? No? Well that’s not surprising because it’s not a joke, there is no punch line. It’s a true story about Maria Katsonis, the good Greek girl who grew up above her parents’ milk bar and shared a bedroom with her yiayia. That is until university when she discovered her rebellious side and her true sexuality. Summoning the courage to come out as a lesbian to her Greek Orthodox family and community, Maria was not met with love and support, but was ostracised. Embracing her imposed independence, Maria became your typical type A over-achiever. Furthering her studies later in life, Maria graduated from Harvard University with a Masters degree. Little did she know, in five years time, Maria would be alone on a bed in a white psych ward fighting for her life. Maria had experienced a complete mental breakdown, shattering her professional and personal identity. The Good Greek Girl will make you laugh, cry, gasp and smile, written with the honesty Maria’s story deserves, and the elegance and craft expected from such an inspiring public intellectual. Now a senior executive in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, an ambassador for beyondblue and advocate with the Australia Council for Mental Health, Maria has more than conquered the forces that held her back, she owns them. While she now lives with a chronic mental illness, Maria leads an active, meaningful and extraordinary life. Her story of triumph over adversity is nothing short of inspiring.
Book Synopsis Good Greek Girl by : Maria S. Marmanides
Download or read book Good Greek Girl written by Maria S. Marmanides and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Good Greek Girl is the story of a first-generation Greek-American woman searching for love, self-acceptance and a sense of belonging in present-day America. Told from the first-person point of view with wit and a hyperaware sense of self, Maria, the main character, struggles with her dueling sensibiiities of wanting to please others and "do good," but also wanting to do right by herself. Throughout the novel, Maria navigates what it means to be a daughter, a sister, a writer, a friend, and even a lover. The reader has a close understanding of what is going on in Maria's mind, her desires--and more often, a greater understanding of Maria than she does herself. We see her inconsistencies; we feel her sporadic dangerousness; we share her pain and join in her lauighter as we follow her on her journey to become the author of her own life in the truest sense of the word"--Abstract, leaf iii.
Book Synopsis The Greek Girl's Story by : Abbé Prévost
Download or read book The Greek Girl's Story written by Abbé Prévost and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Greek Girl’s Story, Alan Singerman presents the first reliable, stand-alone translation and critical edition of Abbé Prévost’s 1740 literary masterpiece Histoire d’une Grecque moderne. The text of this new English translation is based on Singerman’s 1990 French edition, which Jonathan Walsh called “arguably the most valuable critical edition” of Prévost’s novel to date. This new edition also includes a complete critical apparatus comprising a substantial introduction, notes, appendixes, and bibliography, all significantly updated from the 1990 French edition, taking into account recent scholarship on this work and providing some additional reflection on the question of Orientalism. Prévost’s roman à clef is based on a true story involving the French ambassador to the Ottoman Porte from 1699 to 1711. It is narrated from the ambassador’s viewpoint and is a model of subjective, unreliable narration (long before Henry James). It is remarkably modern in its presentation of an enigmatic, ambiguous character, as the truth about the heroine can never be established with certainty. It is the story of the tormented relationship between the diplomat and a beautiful young Greek concubine, Théophé, whom he frees from a pasha’s harem. While her benefactor becomes increasingly infatuated with her and bent on becoming her lover, the Greek girl becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a virtuous and respected woman. Viewing the ambassador as a father figure, she condemns his quasi-incestuous passion and firmly rejects his repeated seduction attempts. Unable to possess the young woman or tolerate the thought that she might grant to someone else what she has refused him, the narrator subjects her behavior to minute scrutiny in an effort to catch her in an indiscretion. His investigations are fruitless, however, and Théophé, the victim of incessant persecution, simply dies, leaving all the questions about her behavior unanswered.
Download or read book Girl Gone Greek written by Rebecca Hall and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore her sister's derision, society's silent wagging finger and her father's advancing years. She's travelled the world, but now finds herself at a crossroads at an age where most people would stop globetrotting and settle. She's never been one to conform to the nine-to-five lifestyle, so why should she start now? Was it wrong to love the freedom and independence a single life provided, to put off the search for Mr Right and the children? Perhaps she could find the time for one last adventure... So with sunshine in mind, Rachel takes a TEFL course and heads to Greece after securing a job teaching English in a remote village. She wasn't looking for love, but she found it in the lifestyle and history of the country, its culture and the enduring volatility of its people. Girl Gone Greek is a contemporary women's fiction novel. When Rachel moved to Greece to escape a life of social conformity, she found a country of unconventional characters and economic turmoil. The last thing she expected was to fall in love with the chaos that reigned about her.
Book Synopsis The Greek Tycoon's Reluctant Bride by : Kate Hewitt
Download or read book The Greek Tycoon's Reluctant Bride written by Kate Hewitt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darkly handsome Demos Atrikes wants a wife to provide heirs to his fortune. No emotions, no complications… Catching sight of stunning, intriguing Althea Paranoussis, he has to have her. She may be a society party girl, but he believes she's perfect wife material—and their wedding is arranged. The chemistry between them is all-consuming. But once married, Demos discovers the painful truth of Althea's childhood. She needs more from him than he'd ever planned to give….
Book Synopsis The Crimson Thread by : Kate Forsyth
Download or read book The Crimson Thread written by Kate Forsyth and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, pitchforks, and kitchen knives. During the bloody eleven-day battle, Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two Australian soldiers. Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka. They are forced to retreat with the tattered remains of the Allied forces over the towering White Mountains. Both are among the seven thousand Allied soldiers left behind in the desperate evacuation from Crete’s storm-lashed southern coast. Alenka hides Jack and Teddy at great risk to herself. Her brother Axel is a Nazi sympathizer and collaborator and spies on her movements. As Crete suffers under the Nazi jackboot, Alenka is drawn into an intense triangle of conflicting emotions with Jack and Teddy. Their friendship suffers under the strain of months of hiding and their rivalry for her love. Together, they join the resistance and fight to free the island, but all three will find themselves tested to their limits. Alenka must choose whom to trust and whom to love and, in the end, whom to save.
Download or read book My Greek Table written by Diane Kochilas and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity chef and award-winning cookbook author Diane Kochilas presents a companion to her Public Television cooking-travel series with this lavishly photographed volume of classic and contemporary cuisine in My Greek Table: Authentic Flavors and Modern Home Cooking from My Kitchen to Yours. Inspired by her travels and family gatherings, the recipes and stories Diane Kochilas shares in My Greek Table celebrate the variety of food and the culture of Greece. Her Mediterranean meals, crafted from natural ingredients and prepared in the region’s traditional styles—as well as innovative updates to classic favorites—cover a diverse range of appetizers, main courses, and desserts to create raucously happy feasts, just like the ones Diane enjoys with her family when they sit down at her table. Perfect for home cooks, these recipes are easy-to-make so you can add Greece’s delicious dishes to your culinary repertoire. With simple-to-follow instructions for salads, meze, vegetables, soup, grains, savory pies, meat, fish, and sweets, you’ll soon be serving iconic fare and new twists on time-honored recipes on your own Greek table for family and friends, including: — Kale, Apple, and Feta Salad — Baklava Oatmeal — Avocado-Tahini Spread — Baked Chicken Keftedes — Retro Feta-Stuffed Grilled Calamari — Portobello Mushroom Gyro — Quinoa Spanakorizo — Quick Pastitsio Ravioli — Aegean Island Stuffed Lamb — My Big Fat Greek Mess—a dessert of meringues, Greek sweets, toasted almonds and tangy yogurt Illustrated throughout with color photographs featuring both the food and the country, My Greek Table is a cultural delicacy for cooks and foodies alike.
Download or read book The Greek Idea written by Maria Koundoura and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece today finds itself caught on a turbulent edge of Europe, yet both high culture and popular myth have long placed Greece as a locus of Western civilisation, reinforced by English travellers' 'discovery' of Greece in the late-eighteenth century and the impact this had on English Literature. Opening up fresh avenues of discourse, Maria Koundoura maps what this dual representation signifies for Greeks, both national and diasporic. In doing so, she touches on twentieth-century diaspora cultures from Europe to the United States, offering a new critical paradigm from which to explore national and transnational identities. Koundoura deftly draws upon postcolonial theory to address and analyse the cultural material that has produced Greece's representation as both 'European' and 'other'.
Book Synopsis The Fallen Greek Bride by : Jane Porter
Download or read book The Fallen Greek Bride written by Jane Porter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infamous Morgan Copeland has graced the tabloids as America's Sweetheart for years. Until scandalous family allegations change the headlines overnight to Socialite in Disgrace! Her reputation in tatters and holding on to the last shreds of her pride, Morgan seeks her estranged husband's help, knowing that to convince merciless Drakon Xanthis, she will have to get down on her knees and beg…. At first Morgan had merely been the Greek's trophy bride, but their explosive passion shocked them both—leaving Morgan with only one weapon left to negotiate with: her body. The Disgraced Copelands: A family in the headlines—for all the wrong reasons! Plus a Jane Proter reader-favorite story: At the Greek Boss's Bidding
Book Synopsis The Greek's Forgotten Wife by : Elizabeth Lennox
Download or read book The Greek's Forgotten Wife written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by Elizabeth Lennox Books LLC (www.ElizabethLennox.com). This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married for six years, and still a virgin! Sasha had fallen in love with Damon at first sight, only to live for the next six years in almost complete isolation from him. She had tried desperately to turn herself into the perfect wife for his infrequent visits, but no more! She was through trying to become someone she wasn’t. And she was finished reading about his mistresses in the tabloids. She’d had enough! So why did her heart race when he walked through the door? And how did she end up in his bed? Damon Galanos had been forced to marry Sasha to retain ownership of his ancestral home, but he never intending to stay married to the innocent girl. However, after destroying her grandfather for his blackmail, Damon found that he couldn’t get Sasha out of his mind. So he returned to his “wife”, realizing she had become a beautiful woman – one he planned to explore further. Imagine his surprise when his docile wife demanded a divorce!
Book Synopsis At the Greek Boss's Bidding by : Jane Porter
Download or read book At the Greek Boss's Bidding written by Jane Porter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–Bestselling Author: This private nurse’s billionaire patient is impossible, infuriating—and irresistible . . . Kristian Koumantaros is the most difficult patient Elizabeth’s ever met. The arrogant Greek billionaire likes being in control, and isn’t adjusting to being temporarily blinded after a helicopter crash. No wonder he can’t keep a nurse when he can’t keep his temper . . . Alone with Kristian at his luxurious, remote retreat, Elizabeth experiences that temper—as well as the full force of his sexual charisma. She knows she’ll have to leave. But Kristian will use every weapon he has to entice her to stay and play . . .
Book Synopsis Growing Up Greek in St. Louis by : Aphrodite Matsakis Ph.D.
Download or read book Growing Up Greek in St. Louis written by Aphrodite Matsakis Ph.D. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-05-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the 20th century, St. Louis' Greek-American community has been a vibrant part of the city's fabric. Through a series of vivid personal accounts of growing up in two worlds during the post-WWII era, Growing Up Greek in St. Louis explores the challenges faced by Greek-Americans as they sought to preserve a rich cultural heritage while assimilating to American ways. From a detailed account of her Grandmothers' struggles during the occupation of Greece during WWII and the Asia Minor Holocaust to the first hand experiences faced by Greek-American children in Greek school, the celebration of name days, and the ever-present "evil eye," the book captures the sense of tradition, history, hospitality (philotimo), and community so vital to the Greek experience.
Book Synopsis The Greek's Forbidden Bride by : Cathy Williams
Download or read book The Greek's Forbidden Bride written by Cathy Williams and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's determined to have her… Greek millionaire Theo Toyas is suspicious of the beautiful but beguiling Abby Clinton. He's convinced that her air of vulnerability conceals a devious woman intent on snatching the Toyas fortune. And he's going to seduce her into telling the truth…. She's determined not to be taken… Abby is consumed by her attraction to this arrogant Greek. But she must keep her secret…and she must not fall in love with Theo. In fact, she must stay forbidden to him at all costs! Too late, because Theo's intent on having her as his wife….
Book Synopsis Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by : Mary Norris
Download or read book Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen written by Mary Norris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea. In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to Me, she delivers another wise and funny paean to the art of self-expression, this time filtered through her greatest passion: all things Greek. Greek to Me is a charming account of Norris’s lifelong love affair with words and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, goes searching for the fabled Baths of Aphrodite, and reveals the surprising ways Greek helped form English. Filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men—Greek to Me is the Comma Queen’s fresh take on Greece and the exotic yet strangely familiar language that so deeply influences our own.
Download or read book Greek Myths written by Charlotte Higgins and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly original, landmark retelling of Greek myths, recounted as if they were actual scenes being woven into textiles by the women who feature prominently in them—including Athena, Helen, Circe and Penelope “Greek myths were full of powerful witches, unpredictable gods and sword-wielding slayers. They were also extreme: about families who turn murderously on each other; impossible tasks set by cruel kings; love that goes wrong; wars and journeys and terrible loss. There was magic, there was shape-shifting, there were monsters, there were descents to the land of the dead. Humans and immortals inhabited the same world, which was sometimes perilous, sometimes exciting. “The stories were obviously fantastical. All the same, brothers really do war with each other. People tell the truth but aren’t believed. Wars destroy the innocent. Lovers are parted. Parents endure the grief of losing children. Women suffer violence at the hands of men. The cleverest of people can be blind to what is really going on. The law of the land can contradict what you know to be just. Mysterious diseases devastate cities. Floods and fire tear lives apart. “For the Greeks, the word muthos simply meant a traditional tale. In the twenty-first century, we have long left behind the political and religious framework in which these stories first circulated—but their power endures. Greek myths remain true for us because they excavate the very extremes of human experience: sudden, inexplicable catastrophe; radical reversals of fortune; and seemingly arbitrary events that transform lives. They deal, in short, in the hard, basic facts of the human condition.” —from the Introduction
Book Synopsis Latin Lovers & Greek Husbands Bundle by : Melanie Milburne
Download or read book Latin Lovers & Greek Husbands Bundle written by Melanie Milburne and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're suave, sophisticated...and incredibly sexy. Who could resist the four Mediterranean men in our Latin Lovers & Greek Husbands Bundle? From an Italian bad boy to a wealthy Greek tycoon, you're bound to find the hero of your dreams! Bundle includes: The Venadicci Marriage Vengeance by Melanie Milburne, The Multi-Millionaire's Virgin Mistress by Cathy Williams, The Greek Tycoon's Reluctant Bride by Kate Hewitt and Proud Greek, Ruthless Revenge by Chantelle Shaw.
Book Synopsis The Greek Tycoon's Bride by : Helen Brooks
Download or read book The Greek Tycoon's Bride written by Helen Brooks and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted with Andreas Karydis, Sophy is convinced arrogance is a Karydis family trait! Wealth, power, devastating looks—no wonder Andreas has women falling at his feet.... Spending the summer at his Greek home, Sophy is relieved when Andreas insists on separate rooms. Only, then she discovers why he doesn't want her as his mistress—he wants her as his bride!
