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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
After her grandfather's death, eight-year-old Sophia fulfills his last request and journeys to Greece with her mother to see the land where her roots are.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Lulu loves to hear her Greek grandmother sing when they are alone, but she is embarrassed by her grandmother's exuberance in public--until a special picnic at school.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Elektra Kamenides is well on her way to becoming a proper southern belle in the small Mississippi college town she calls home. That is, until her mother decides to uproot her and her kid sister Thalia and start over in California. They leave behind Elektra's father--a professor and leading expert on Greek mythology, and Elektra can't understand why. For her, life is tragedy, and all signs point to her family being cursed.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The long-awaited follow-up to the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time. The film reveals a Portokalos family secret that will bring the beloved characters back together for an even bigger and Greeker wedding.
9) Middlesex
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The entire family has been put to work when a big fat Greek wedding rehearsal is booked at the Parthenon. All hands are needed for rolling grape leaves, layering moussaka and keeping the bride calm. But then the groom goes M.I.A. and there's far more to worry about than just whether Yiayia's lemon rice soup has gone cold. No matter how tangy the tzatziki, everyone's appetite is ruined when the groom is found dead, a pair of scissors planted in his...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences --IMDb.
Author
Series
Mellen studies in sociology volume 32
Publisher
Edwin Mellen Press
Pub. Date
2001-
Physical Desc
volumes <1> ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Full of sharp portraits and humorous, telling descriptions of the many statesmen and financiers Peterson has known over the years, "The Education of an American Dreamer" is a richly satisfying journey through a fascinating man's life--beginning in Kearney, Nebraska, as an eight-year-old manning the cash register, to Secretary of Commerce in Nixon's paranoid White House, to the tumultuous days of Lehman Brothers, and on to the creation of The Blackstone...
16) Alexandra
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While helping her crippled grandfather by diving for sponges from the family boat after the death of her diver father, Alexandra discovers that someone is using their sponges as a hiding-place for smuggled cocaine.
20) Just our luck
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Leo's anxiety caused a fight at school he didn't lie, but he wasn't exactly honest about how it all went down-- how he went down. Now Leo's father thinks a self-defense class is exactly what his son needs to "man up." Sitting at the front desk of the local gym? Evey Paros, whose family supposedly cursed Leo's with bad luck. Evey cuts him a deal: she'll enroll him in hot yoga instead-- for a price. But what could the brilliant, ruthless, forbidden...
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