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After years spent in Germany struggling to come to terms with a dispirited and abusive past, Fenia Karapanos has returned to her roots in Greece. Her estranged grandfather has bequeathed her his villa in Athens, a gesture she assumes is reparation for having disowned her late mother. After taking in a grateful Syrian refugee to help her restore the property - and her life - Fenia discovers a collection of love letters hidden under the floorboards, reaching back nearly a century. In each one, Fenia unfolds another piece of her broken family history.

The Secret History, written by the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius, is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous documents to have survived from the early Byzantine period. Procopius, the leading official historian of his time, lived during the testing and indulgent time of Emperor Justinian the Great and wrote the official records of the successful wars and the grand building projects of his ruler. These were words of aggrandisement. But covertly, Procopius kept a very different record....

Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium-long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium—what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.

Stephanie Simonton's life is falling apart. Her parents were both recently killed, her farm is going bankrupt, and now she's on a cruise to Turkey and Greece alone and in complete misery. Sheikh Uri vowed to never love again after his fiancé died of cancer, but his father insists on an heir and arranges for him to meet several single ladies. When Uri sees his sweet Stephanie, he realizes that there is life after loss and vows to make her his own. Can Stephanie free herself from the past and move into his larger than life world? Visit Leah online: www.leahleonardromances.com

Lawrence Durrell's evocative memoir of living in Cyprus, just before the Greek/Turkish partition. This is a touching and atmospheric account of a place, now changed, where the two races lived side by side.

Among all the early Iron Age people from the Near East who inherited the geopolitical vacuum of power left by the Sea Peoples invasions, the Phrygians are perhaps one of the most misunderstood. They built a powerful and wealthy kingdom, but were overshadowed by their more powerful and wealthier neighbors, the Lydians.

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.

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.

How far would a father go to keep his daughter from marrying the wrong man? Rufus Coleman, the respected editor of the New York Eclipse, plans to marry Marjory Wainwright. Yet to her father, Professor Wainwright, Rufus is still the wastrel that he thought him to be as a student in college.