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From The Best-Selling Author Kostas Krommydas [Over 200 000 Copies Sold in Greece Alone] “Had me gripped from start to finish.” Lesley Willsher The best journeys are the ones we never make. Some trips start with a suitcase in hand. Other, after a fight. And some when a new job forces you to drop everything and leave. Some journeys have been engraved in our souls. Because they hurt us. Because they made us hurt our loved ones. And some trips are governed by a crazy love. They make us forget what it’s like to live and cause the pain of unrequited love. But the thing you may only realize...

When inquisitive American journalist Joel Stratte-McClure decides to walk around the Mediterranean Sea, we're in for an exhilarating footloose adventure. As a 30 year expatriate in France, the author explores the coast, countryside and regional cultures while musing about life, meditation, literature, art, the environment, Greek gods and goddesses, history, and, of course, the art of walking. The second installment in his "Idiot and the Odyssey" series chronicles his 4,401-kilometer footloose journey from Rome through the Greek islands to Turkey. During the MedTrek, he completes twelve ...

Maria has left her small Greek island and settled in a small Athens flat. Being thrice-bitten she is vamp and able to extend, by biting, the orgasms of her boss and lover, the once-bitten Jenny, who pays for Maria’s flat, clothes and car. Young women, similar to Maria and Jenny are going missing from all over Greece, but not turning up dead or blood-drained, therefore, Jenny's vampire turning department are not yet involved. Knowing that a day will come when it's announced that vampire involvement has been proven and will require Jenny’s immediate results, Maria is asked to look into ...

Rosetta and her daughter take another exciting trip to Europe around Italy (Book 2 of 4). A suspect from the states crosses their path through famous cities along the Italian coast. Now the local mob boss wants retribution and gives chase. Will Rosetta convince the murderer to give up or die by his wife's local family? Updated 10/22/24 Next book in this series is: Mystery Along the Colorado #B09678K6MS

In How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and strange, this book reintroduces us to our earliest thinkers through the lands they inhabited. To know the mental occupations of Homer or Heraclitus, one must visit their cities, sail their seas, and find landscapes not overwhelmed by the millennia that have passed but retain the atmosphere of that ancient life. Nicolson takes us to the dawn of investigative thought and a nexus of cross-cultural connection.

“If you love romance, intrigue and mystery, then this series is for you." Amazon Reviewer A troubled daughter. A heinous crime. A vengeful woman. When Matt’s daughter, Kayleigh takes a job in Souvia to escape her abusive ex, she’s horrified to be a victim of a malicious crime that goes disastrously wrong. Matt has no idea why his daughter and her new boss have been targeted, but he’s determined to protect Kayleigh and to ensure her safety from those who want to harm her. Elena and Kayleigh find themselves right in the firing line as the investigation progresses. Will they err on the...

FINDING MY FEET is the second instalment of THE RELUCTANT EXPAT, Alan Laycock’s light-hearted account of his life in Spain. Part Three of Alan’s story is now also available.

Book two of Theodore Mommsen's history begins in 509 BC, when the last Roman king was expelled and a republican form of government was formed. Starting here, we trace Rome's political and cultural development under an aristocracy whose puritan fanaticism is legendary. But security from surrounding hostile tribes was of uppermost concern, and the city was constantly at war with one tribe or another. During the fifth century BC, the Republic's energies were directed toward uniting or subduing her neighbors.

Robert L. Humphrey's final speech given at The Conference on Values in Higher Education University of Tennessee at Knoxville on April 10-12, 1997

Hawthorne scrisse due libri, Il libro dele meraviglie e il mondo delle meraviglie, indirizzati a ragazzi in età scolare, in cui raccontava con linguaggio semplice e moderno i miti greci più famosi.

Traveling across Route 66 as a child became a formative background for the author. After going into the ministry, he longed to have a direct experience with the land of Scripture like he had with America. Between 1989 and 2011 he and his wife led five spiritual pilgrimages to the Asian and European continents. This book is for all those who have traveled to biblical sites, who are planning to travel, or wish they could. It seeks to bring the Bible alive so others can either imagine or remember seeing the locations, hearing the sounds, and smelling the fragrances of those far away places.

A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes, a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. An ideal travel companion, Frances Mayes brings to the page the curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style that entertains as it informs.

From our democratic way of government to timeless elements of architectural design, the civilization of the ancient Greeks has influenced virtually every civilization on earth, past and present. The influence of the Greek culture, whether it be in philosophy or the tradition of the Olympic games, is buried so deeply in modern life that we're often unaware of it. This full cast audio production takes the listener back to the origins of Ancient Greece in its Golden Age to revisit elements of daily life and milestones of achievement. In this informative and entertaining journey, the listener will discover how that ancient culture reaches through time to touch our modern world.

Where must I locate thee now, O my homeland, or in what places? So wrote a Roman poet 2,000 years ago, and so feel Donald Yates and his wife, Teresa, after an eye-opening visit to Italy, Croatia, Greece, and Turkey.