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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,...
4) The Names
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Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, <b>The Names</b> is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i>). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in <b>The Names</b> are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic...
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ABOUT WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Retold for a picture book audience, the Bard's mischievous take on love run amok in fairyland meets its match in luminous illustrations by Jane Ray. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here ... There's trouble in the Fairy Kingdom. King Oberon wants to teach Titania, his proud wife, a lesson. Things heat up when four young nobles arrive in...
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