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Author: Eleni Sikelianos
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781566893602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA memoir of Melena, five-times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.
Author: Mary Norris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1324001283
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“One of the most satisfying accounts of a great passion that I have ever read.” —Vivian Gornick, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of 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, and reveals the surprising ways in which Greek helped form English. Greek to Me is filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine—and more than a few Greek men.
Author: Constance M. Constant
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis memoire amusingly relates the story of a family living through the shock of immigration and the struggles of the Great Depression. Mama defies convention in 1931 and goes to work in her husband's restaurant, the Austin Lunch.Located on Chicago's historic but seamy Near West Side, Papa's restaurant becomes an uncertain haven for their two children, Helen and Nicky. Ironically, the restaurant with its parade of assorted inner city characters becomes a proving ground for the children to observe the energy, integrity and courage of their hard working parents during the rough thirties and early forties.The book's authentic sense of time and place warmly records a personal slice of Twentieth Century history through the honest eyes of childhood.
Author: Alexandra Robbins
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1401304052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexandra Robbins wanted to find out if the stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, so she spent a year with a group of girls in a typical sorority. The sordid behavior of sorority girls exceeded her worst expectations -- drugs, psychological abuse, extreme promiscuity, racism, violence, and rampant eating disorders are just a few of the problems. But even more surprising was the fact that these abuses were inflicted and endured by intelligent, successful, and attractive women. Why is the desire to belong to a sorority so powerful that women are willing to engage in this type of behavior -- especially when the women involved are supposed to be considered 'sisters'? What definition of sisterhood do many women embrace? Pledged combines a sharp-eyed narrative with extensive reporting and the fly-on-the-wall voyeurism of reality shows to provide the answer.
Author: Amalia Balch
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Published: 2021-05-31
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ISBN-13: 9781737156703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marilyn Rouvelas
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music, what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.
Author: Alexander Kitroeff
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2020-06-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1501749447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.
Author: Georgia Sarianides
Publisher: Capital Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781931868730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular cable TV chef Georgia Sarianides adapts healthy and delicious Old World Greek recipes to new American ingredients and lifestyles in a book that introduces the cuisine of Greece in a fun and engaging way. Approximately 175 recipes and cooking tips.
Author: Bryan Doerries
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307949729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.
Author: Meredith Zeitlin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-04
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0147517931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigh school sophomore Zona Lowell is reluctantly moving to Athens with her father, where she'll be forced to meet her mother's large estranged family.
