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1) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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"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...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"High school junior Bettina Vasilisis is trapped in a relationship with her basketball star boyfriend when she meets Cowboy, a car mechanic whom her traditional father would not approve of"--
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Yoryis Zeese was born in 1886 in Greece. He emigrated and settled in Idaho. He married Emilia Papachristou in 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah. His family lived in Utah.
"A Greek Odyssey in the American West begins with Helen Papanikolas's childhood in Helper, Utah, a way station for the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad. Helper's population was as odd a conglomeration as could be found anywhere in the West: French sheepherders; Chinese and Japanese...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In 1948, Nikko Spirakis, twelve, loves baseball but must get past his hard-working immigrant parents--and the rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy for the local minor league team.
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Language
English
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"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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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.
"The sequel is a little like a bear hug from a beloved old relative..."--Los Angeles Times.
"Vardalos is wonderful, and 88-year-old Michael Constantine casually pockets every scene he's in."--Richard Roeper.
"Some elements are even...
16) Love bites
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
Sofie's retained by the neighborhood vampire to prove he isn't responsible for a recent string of grisly murders. Meanwhile, things heat up on the romantic front when Jake and Dino both decide to vie for her undivided attention.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world ... forever.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful memoir about the traumas of a perilous childhood, a shattering murder-suicide, and a healing journey from escape to survival to recovery. Growing up, Lisa Nikolidakis tried to make sense of her childhood, which was scarred by abuse, violence, and psychological terrors so extreme that her relationship with her father was cleaved beyond repair. Then, on her twenty-seventh birthday, Nikolidakis's father murdered his girlfriend and her daughter,...
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Sano Halo's life as told to her daughter, Thea, telling how, at the age of ten, she and her family were driven from their home by Turkish soldiers in a raid that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people;and discussing her marriage at the age of fifteen to a much-older man, and their life together in America.
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