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  The Pale Fountains of Phocion Negri

  Steven Tsitsopoulos

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  A satisfying narrative - a tribute to the most noir and rock 'n' roll pedestrian street in Athens.
  A voluptuous mural of an era from the 1960s to the present day, with characters both real and fictional. A novel that recalls, recreates and glorifies the epic street of Fokionos Negri and the famous statue of the Dog - how could Judy Garland, the Ramones, the poet Miltos Shachtouris, Gustavus Flaubert, George Lanthimos and the Weeping Lady of the fountain at the corner of Fokionos and Eptanissos be connected to it?
  An enigmatic Thessaloniki man looking for something in Foca Negra, his psychiatrist lover, the ghost of stripper Rita Kandilak and two mysterious melancholic ladies with light blue hair will unexpectedly travel through time to settle every unpaid bill of joy, mourning, loneliness and waiting for true love and forgiveness. Against the backdrop of Café Select, the bar Av Revoir and the legendary club Quinta, their lives will be swept away by the waters that, they say, still run rampant beneath the boardwalk.

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  100 αληθινεσ ιστοριεσ...

  John Mac, Sandrine Brugot,...

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  Μπορείς να πεθάνεις καρφωμένος από ένα καλαμάκι, να σκοτωθείς από έναν γυμνοσάλιαγκα, να συντριβείς από μια αγελάδα που έπεσε από τον ουρανό, να δηλητηριαστείς από ένα καρότο ή να πνιγείς από ένα γέλιο; ΟΧΙ; Λοιπόν, ναι, είναι δυνατόν... Δυστυχώς. Θα ανακαλύψετε τους 100 πιο παράλογους και τραγικούς, ενίοτε αστείους, τρόπους θανάτου, που θα σας κάνουν να κρυώσετε και να χαμογελάσετε ταυτόχρονα. Κάθε ένα από αυτά είναι μια υπενθύμιση της αβάσταχτης ευθραυστότητας της ύπαρξης και της ανάγκης να αποφεύγεται η επικίνδυνη συμπεριφορά.

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  1984

  George Orwell

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  A world where every human right has been violated and every notion of freedom and individuality is abolished. A world where Big Brother monitors everything through advanced technology devices. A world where the war against an invisible enemy never ends, thoughts go underground and any deviation from the dictates of the regime is punished relentlessly until it is "corrected". A world where those in power have the power to alter the past and deny the self-existence of reality, a world where language and its words change to keep up with the newA verified dystopian vision in the form of a novel, 1984, one of those few works that have accurately defined their century, continues to warn us more than seventy years after its publication that totalitarianism, with all its mass of illusions, knows no measure or limit, nor does it belong definitively to the past.The book was published just seven months before the author's death from tuberculosis in January 1950. Apart from the futuristic environment described (and which was twice adapted for the cinema, in 1956 and 1984, without great success on both occasions, despite Sir Richard Burton's participation in the latter), apart from its apt predictions about mass surveillance, the nature of authoritarian regimes and the levelling out of any notion of difference, what is even more striking are the neologisms that remain handy to this day: Terms such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "SexCrime" and the famous "Cold War" - which he himself coined a few years ago - are not only used daily, but are so apt that one wonders how a human mind could have conceived them a full seven decades ago.

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  Like a Champagne Cognac

  Maria Leventi

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  The first crime novel of self-discovery!
  Whatever you prefer, whatever you choose, I want you to remember: "By taste you choose, but by smell you are chosen." June 2020. Thessaloniki. At the outbreak of the great pandemic...
  Martha, the girl with curly hair, will experience unexpected events that will change her life in unexpected ways once and for all!
  12 key people. A murder? A big secret. An unspoken love.
  It's enough to transform her in the space of 7 days, from "humble chamomile" to the most precious ""champagne brandy"".
  "Like a Champagne Cognac" is a detective novel of self-discovery - just like life itself. All the characters in the book, as well as the smells and tastes that surround them, are based on Carl Jung's archetypes and symbolize the basic human motivations, values and personalities that humans share as a species.
  "A wonderful journey, written by a woman, with all women in mind!"

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  Histories Book 4

  Thucydides

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  Thucydides' Histories is the history of the first 20 years of the war between Athens and Sparta, which lasted from 431 until 404 B.C., also known as the Peloponnesian War. It is the life's work of a very sophisticated, efficient and active man which gives us a deep insight to the occurences of his time and human nature.Ancient text read with contemporary Greek pronunciation. Book 4 of 8. (Summary by olorou)

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  Apology of Socrates (Ancient Greek)

  Plato

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  The Apology is Plato's version of the speech delivered by Socrates before the Athenian people in his defence agaist charges of impiety and of misleading others, which ended in his condemnation and death in 399 BC. It is the earliest and most eloquent expression of what has been termed 'philosophical faith', as that love and search for truth which gives meaning to life and trust in the face of death. (Summary by zaaf) 
   
  ? ???t??a? ?ta? sp??da??? ?????a? f???s?f?? ?a? s????af?a? (427 p.?. - 347 p.?.), ? ???st?te??? µa??t?? t?? S????t?. ? ???t?? ???a?e t?? ?p?????a t?? S????t???, p?? ?e??e?ta? ?? µ?a s?et??? a???ß?? ?ata??af? t?? ap?????a? t?? S????t? st? d??? p?? t?? ?atad??ase se ???at?. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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