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An actress waits at the bus stop to go to her rehearsal. There, she meets four of her partners, within a time difference.A teacher, interrogator, in an indeterminate place and time, with no way out.Heroes who live their own Calvary, through an uncertain personal personal flight, have the trappings of an ancient Greek tragedy... no matter what that might entail...

""April 15th, 2016. Tania turns twelve today, and an awesome conjurer, Peter, comes to her birthday party. His magic tricks have left his guests speechless. When the feast is over, with Tania wondering if magicians learn these tricks at a certain school or if magic is real, she finds a mysterious suitcase in her room. When she opens it up, something unexpected will happen and a fascinating adventure will begin!Tania is called on to discover PeterJs secret and make decisions that will radically change, not only her own life, but also the course of world history.Who is mysterious Peter and what is the secret of the forbidden box? Who will be the next child to take the lid off it?A magic book series will come out shortly with OnTime Books...""

William Shakespeare visits Athens in 1600 AD. In the city that gave birth to democracy and the theatre, he will discover a new kind of narration and, with his 'spear of wisdom', travel in future to write his first adventure set outside Earth, in the capital city of planet Mars, New Athens. He recounts the works and days of the explorer, philosopher and great benefactor of planet Mars in the 23rd century AD, Timon the Athenian.An epic on humanity beyond the bounds of time and space whereby William Shakespeare records the chronicle of the human effort to colonise the red planet.A story of vindication that connects seven centuries of human will.

FROM PETROULAS' ASSASSINATION TO THE SIGNING OF THE MEMORANDA, TWO GENERATIONS OF GREEKS FIGHT THEIR OWN BATTLES AND STRUGGLE WITH THEIR OWN DEMONS. THE FEAR OF THE POLICEMAN GIVES PLACE TO THE DESPAIR OF CONSUMERS' LONELY SOCIETY. THE CENSORSHIP OF BAREFACED FASCIST REGIMES TURNS INTO APATHY AND CYNICISM, WHILE THE POLITICAL PARADOX IS CONFIRMED...IT TAKES STRENGTH TO STAND PEACE...THE HEROES OF 'PLAIN OF WAR' STRIVE IN THE PAST AS WELL AS IN THE PRESENT FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY BUT, ABOVE ALL, THEY STRIVE TO REMAIN HUMAN, SETTING THEIR HEARTS ON THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE.

""Mina, magic and the white beaker"" is the first book of a children's trilogy in the fantasy genre. The book and the trilogy as a whole is for those who are interested in the mythology of Indo-European folklore, magic fairy tales and songs, or in ancient mythology in general. It is for the kid who learns about magic folklore fairy tales at school. For the kid and the teenager, who want to read a complete, contemporary and modern story, closely connected with fairy tales and mythology.The book is also for the adult who still loves fairy tales and likes going back mentally to the crazy things of his own childhood as he has not forgotten that he had one. The fantasy novel ""Mina, magic and the white beaker"" is for every child or grownup person.The main characters in the book and the trilogy are three kids: Mina, Yanil and Kitan. It all begins at Christmas, in our Lower Earth, in our time. After that, the story goes to the Second World, the Upper Land. The enchanted Middle Ages are ruling there with all the magic, swords and wizards. But... there is also a third world. This is the world of fairy tales from the Upper Land. Time there is mythical and cosmic. A wonderful Palace in the Black Sea (The Palace in Balchik (Dionysopolis), Black Sea, Bulgaria) is the link between the Lower and the Upper Earth. The Palace is wintry, beautiful and mysterious. On the Upper Land, the story develops in an empire called the Green Realm. The third world, the world of fairy tales told on the Upper Land is mythical and cosmic. There are gods and galaxies. The gods are called the Guardians. These are: the Woman with the feathery dress [the Wood Nymph), the Girl with the fish tail (the Mermaid), the Old man with the long, long beard (Inch high Long beard) and the Brave boy with burning eyes and little wings (The Dragon).The book and trilogy are magical.

Manhattan, New York. That's where Melania Hart has lived for the past ten years, haunted by a secret overshadowing her existence. If her secret is discovered, she will be ruined. She has written a staggering novel, and desperately wants to get it published with Damian Red's publishing house. The mysterious tycoon is the absolute male-breathtakingly handsome, masculine, and sexy, New York's most popular bachelor. When Melania comes under attack inside Saks Department Store on Fifth Avenue on New Year's Eve, she can't imagine that this is the beginning of a chain of events that will threaten, not only the secret she wants to forget, but also her life. What will happen when Melania meets Damian? She followed one of the multiple jogging paths in the park. She was halfway through when a runner on skateboards pushed her over to the ground. Melania rubbed her knees and, taking a deep breath, she started running again. She was running without thinking, and she was so engrossed in her breathing that she didn't hear the runner on the skateboards approach her again. This time, he attacked her by sticking his sharp knife into her left arm. She tried to stand up. The runner attacked her again, tripping her up and sticking his knife under her left shoulder blade this time, close to her heart. Melania fell down, but she tried to stand up again. He would kill her!

A young man survives a terrorist attack that took place on the 4th of August 1974 at the railway station of Bologna, where he witnesses his own father dying just in front of his eyes.Stigmatised by his memories and his father's loss, he will cut himself off in the lonely world of writing, which was his childhood dream, without achieving and author's sought - after success as his readership does not receive his works very well.Twenty years later, a letter comes through from a mysterious woman that invites him to a gallery, where he comes up against the painting The House of Seagulls.From then on, there begins an extensive search that will have him confront his past, a past related to the financial and moral collapse of the late formerly powerful Sordi family in Rome during the years of the Cold War (1975).Nevertheless, the death of their daughter is shrouded in mystery as she is alleged to have committed suicide by jumping off a lighthouse on the island of Ponza. But is this the truth? With the help of Nora Terentino, a police officer in Rome's Homicide Department, he will try to reveal the truth, disclosing parts of the darkest historical facts of Italy. Power abuse, political corruption, terrorism, and freemasonry will pull the strings of history, bringing in a tour de force both the heroes and the reader face to face with death, loyalty, suffering of loss, writing obsession, and the power of real love. All this against the backdrop of majestic Rome.

Born in Othos, on the isle of Karpathos, Alexander Georgiades - son of a teacher and grandson of the village priest- emigrated to America, where he studied electrical engineering at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute. He became an officially naturalized American citizen in 1940. During WWII, he joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the US intelligence service at the time. After several months of military training, he operated as a Secret Intelligence Branch (SI) officer in the Evros region, Greece, paving the way for Allied sabotage against the Axis Powers.Georgiades was discharged from the Army with the rank of Captain and, for his courageous service and meritorious conduct, was awarded the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit of the American Army. A plethora of official American documents acknowledge, with accolades, the integrity, ethos, courage, and gallantry he demonstrated during the execution of his dangerous mission.Once back in America, he continued aiding the people of Greece by sending them livestock, poultry, and beasts of burden, all of which Greece was lacking because of the war.Georgiades' refusal to work for the CIA after the War and his prior cooperation with guerrillas of ELAS and the National Liberation Front (EAM), based on directives from Cairo, placed him in the eye of a storm in McCarthy's America. As a result of this, he suffered many psychological and other persecutions.

It's enough, sometimes, for just a tiny bit of fate to change the course of the so-called ferry line of life and change everything... everything.Because a mark can last forever and one moment is enough to mark the soul for eternity.

Twelve magic fairytales that will enchant children and whisk them off to magic worlds. Fairytales that teach friendship, love, sharing, forgiveness, honesty, faith, patience, perseverance, responsibility, repentance, hope, freedom, joy and life in general. Fairytales whose hidden meanings parents and children are called on to decipher and let the wisdom within grow.

For a group of friends, a night out turns into a tragedy. A tragic accident leaves several dead bodies behind, along with a sack that must not be opened. There are many dilemmas and hard decisions. Long-term relationships go through trials and tribulations as a Damocles' sword is permanently hanging over their heads. Detective Ero Palazi seeks Tommy Irioglou's help, so as to solve the mystery of the strange murders that suddenly shake the town. Thanks to his fiery character and the unorthodox methods he uses, he comes within an inch of discovering the truth. However, could it be that people instinctively seek the truth only when it suits them and look for comfortable lies instead? Relationships are shaken and differences come to the fore. Throwing caution to the wind, Tommy is determined to mete out justice in his own way, going so far as to contradict Ero herself. All hell breaks loose and the only thing they can vouch for is that they cannot trust anyone.

Othrys: the inactive orchestra of the universe steeply looming and eerily imposing, asthough God bestowed all His blessings on this mountain. In a remote corner of its female soul, where the untainted fragrance wafts in the air like a caress, light as an angel's feather, in a mountainous embrace full of dense fir trees, runs the crystal water, furrowing the earth. Hometo Nymphs born in caves and deeply rooted stalactites - a geophysical wonder - stands the Water Cave. Does the surrounding verdant valley want to clutch it close to its breast or hide it?There, close to the mouth of the Water Cave, a girl discovers love in the face of a man she bumps into. She gets intoxicated by gods' acrid myrrh which shows her that she lives in another world. It's so strange that this becomes the meaning of life that seeks to unite them!Mika Mavroyiannis composes the chords of love where the heroine gets lost.. only to find a better self.

Marc is a very famous and, most importantly, popular writer and playwright. Almost all of his plays and novels have become huge commercial and artistic successes. This means fame, glory, fans and, of course, money. But at this specific point in his life Marc is facing difficulties. He is trapped at a "writer's block" and is unable to write. His reputation is at stake; his lifestyle also. His fans, as well as his editor, demand a new masterpiece better than the previous ones... Marc is desperate. So he calls upon the Muse to help him. But she doesn't respond. He keeps calling and calling... And at some point, the Muse appears... Alice appears. Marc believes she has come to help him achieve his artistic goals... But Alice has come to seduce Marc into following her on a path with no return, where all secrets are revealed and the truth, that has been hidden for a very long time, comes to light! Marc will eventually comprehend the truth about himself. Who he is, what he wanted and what he did or sacrificed to get it. And then the final question will appear: "Was it worth it?"

The book When the Light Fell in Love with the Fire refers to a creature from another world. This creature opens its eyes at some point, only to realise that it is in the world of humans in an indeterminate past era.He has no prior memory. He doesn't even remember who he is, where he comes from and why he finds himself in the world of humans. There is only a faint recollection of a female figure. He's not sure whether she exists or whether she is some distant memory or a figment of his imagination.He starts looking for answers. It is a tug-of-war between emotions and his contact with humans. At first, he avoids them, he doesn't like the way they think and act. With the passage of time, though, this relationship changes, just like the way he is viewed by humans.This book is not a simple story, but something different. It is written from a first-person point of view, like a diary, but in a way that shows the hero's inner dialogue, addressing a person he doesn't know whether she exists or not, and doesn't focus on the story so much as on the hero's thoughts and feelings. It is viewed from a different angle, a director's viewpoint.The reader can entertain his or her own thoughts as this book is meant to be thought-provoking. It entails a lot of soul-searching and gives us a lot of stimuli, keys and images, so that readers will set out on their own inner journey, reach their own destination and have their own musings.It is an inward journey infused with lyricism, soul-searching and philosophical ponderings with an imaginary veneer.

Thirty years ago, a crime shook up a small provincial city, and a family was torn apart by accusations.Efstathia changes name and country, and throws stones of oblivion behind her. Now as Eva, a formerly successful company executive, is called on to go back to her homeland to take care of her stepmother and mentally unstable brother.Going back, she is forced to feel for her old wounds, and relive the betrayal of a man who hurt her deeply. The past, more alive than ever, traps her again in a maze of secret and lies. Everything looks disheartening and inevitable. To escape, she needs to discover the truth...A game of intrigue, illusion, and self-deception, where the harshness of heroes clashes with their need for love.

Thoughts that weren't aired... forsaken dreams that were locked up in a wooden box... words committed to paper... Memories...In every corner of the world.. .gazing atthe sea or the city lights.For.. .when the sounds in the silence sing, they have so much to say.. .to remind.

The invincible powers of love often cloud judgement and lead man to incredible actions. They may only be explained through the inviolable laws of nature and Physics. Many answers may also be provided by Psychiatry and Metaphysics. However, the universe surrounding us in a natural way plays a decisive role in all this...

Little Fos lives underwater, together with their parents, However, no one can breathe without wearing their Vitas, some special oxygen devices. Fos's secret dream is to follow the dream of the Waterman, the only one who managed to escape to the land and breathe like a free man!Will Fos make it? Will she reach her destination?A tale with many twists is coming to blow your mind.

"It all boils down to strategy, my child. Being able to guess and understand your co-player's next move. That's how we can understand the enemy's repertoire."These were Grandfather Marco's last words just before he died in front of his grandson's eyes. He was left alone in a different reality without getting the answers he needed.

I believe each one of us will, at some point, meet someone who will play a decisive role in our lives, since they will affect, not only future time and its uncertainty, but also the certainty of the past. It usually comes unexpectedly, sneaks into your life and unsettles it, it shakes all stereotypes and deeply ingrained convictions, it gives you quite a jolt, it changes, deforms and transforms you - either rapidly or slowly. It makes you take a different perspective on your life. Not from a different angle - one way or another, you achieve that if you just move -, but from the same point where you always stood. Then, you wonder in puzzlement how on earth things look like you've never seen them before.Paul is a divorced man who has gone bankrupt. Every afternoon, he withdraws from a painful past as, seated on a park bench, he listens attentively to a weird story narrated by an enigmatic lonely writer. One day, the writer disappears in a mysterious way before he even finishes his story, leaving his dog with Paul. For the following ten months, Paul visits the same spot every single day to meet the strange man, to give his dog back and listen to the end of the story. A story that will play a decisive role in his future as well as his past.

Raphaella Adamidou returns to Larnaca, Cyprus, from New York to run the, "Black Diamond" her Uncle Dimitris' oil.company. Sheikh Al-Raya gave it to him in token of his gratitude for saving his only son, Kalem-Halid Al Raya, from an attempt on his life.Before the murderer dies, he mumbles some incomprehensible words, such as "the myrrh, the gold, the frankincense...the Red Mantle...the Golden Phoenix..."What is the Sheikh's great secret and what is really going on with the mysterious Blue Rose?

As you look at meThe morals of the world arefighting to the deathMy therapist once told me that what I was going through at the time was called Cinderella Syndrome. This made me sad.Was I the only one that wanted to wear the glass slippers? Was I the only one waiting for the prince to arrive on the golden chariot, Romeo and Erotokritos to serenade me below my balcony, the seven dwarves to take care of me, the moster to magically transform into a prince, the big bad wolf to drown, and Odysseus to come home?I've been trying to figue out through years of self-reflection why I had been looking for fairy-tale endings in real-life situations.Why did I fall for all this stories?I'll let you know if I come across the answer.

"You were right about mo, Roxanne, you were right from the start! Pm a monster, a filthy, despicable, wretched monster! You're right about hating me... I'm cursed, and so arc the other miserable creatures T dragged along with me..."No one dares go near the derelict old castle perched on Timber Hill. Everyone believes that it's haunted.Sixteen-year-old Roxanne doesn't believe in ghosts, and entering the castle is simply a challenge for her. What she discovers inside, though, shakes her mindset; the truth scares and enchants her at the same time; it puts her life on the line, while leaving her bewitched and piquing her curiosity. She is gripped by such a tyrannical burning curiosity that she cannot stop going back there again and againuntil she discovers all its secrets.Upon crossing the threshold of the old mansion, the greatest adventure of her life begins. She falls in love, gets hurt and makes some otherworldly friends...She pushes her own soul to the limit, realises the power of forgiveness and, above all, discovers that her life is bound up with the castle, its mysterious owner and its ghosts.In the end, when she unwittingly risks giving its secrets away, the consequences for the others and herself are devastating...Timber's Castle is the first book of the trilogy Hemiphos. A tour dc force ballad that wasn't set to music and verse, but was cloaked in the mantle of prose.

Away from the battlefields, countless tragedies took place in the wake of the Second World War, compounding and subverting the lives of millions of people throughout Europe. What could possibly connect Anne, a beautiful university student, with charming Adolf other than family life and love that brought them together? The Great War's ineffable horror makes its marks on human souls decades after it ended. The novel 'So near, so far' is a contemporary tragedy that seems to have sprung out of events like the ones that inspired the Ancient Greek Tragic Poets. In its pages come alive the heroes who seek their own catharsis and, through an ordeal, head for what seems to be a pre-ordained ending. Or maybe not.

Mr. Alzheimer went silent for a few seconds."Just to love him," he said."But we do love him, very much. He is our Grandpa.""Yes, I know that. What I meant before, is that the only thing you can do to help him is to keep telling him that you love him, especially when he is sad or upset. It will help him a lot to feel your presence and your love. Do you know what I really believe? That the heart remembers what the mind forgets. The hugs and attention of his loved ones, even when he can not recognize them, will make him feel better.""This is the easiest we can do! But is love just enough or there are more things we can do for him?"

1941. After discovering Santa Claus' factory, the Nazis enslave the elves, incapacitate Santa and convert the factory into a factory of war. two of Santa's helpers escape to London to brief Churchill, who creates a commando unit to take the factory back.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the rich have great interest in the occult; tables dance everywhere, and ghosts speak in many a darkened room.Willem Wolf, a wealthy young man, has a passion for exploring psychic phenomena and exposing the charlatans. He believes many are fraudulent and he becomes a one-man inquisition hunting for the truth, first giving the psychics the benefit of the doubt until he sees through their trickery.Then he decides to find out what happens when more than a dozen mediums concentrate on the same thing at the same time. He finds himself in a mesmerizing world where the intriguing story of the long-lost Nibelung Gold seems to be a fact.Wolf begins a journey he never expected, dealing with dishonest and evil people while searching for the truth of the legendary Nibelung treasure or Rhine Gold that has been lost since the 5th century along Germany's Rhine River."...A very interesting story. I really liked Wolf and the story being set late in the 19th century. The magic, spiritism, ghosts and of course finding out the story behind the legend, along with the suspense, mystery and adventure made for a delightful read. I highly recommend The Nibelung Gold to those who love a great mystery/adventure/suspense story." - Amazon review by Sheri A. Wilkinson

"""A tear to unite me with those of broken heart; A smile to be a sign of my joy in existence."". A book of poetry by Khalil Gibran that touches every soul. Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title.Gibran discussed ""such themes as religion, justice, free will, science, love, happiness, the soul, the body, and death"" in his writings, which were ""characterized by innovation breaking with forms of the past, by symbolism, an undying love for his native land, and a sentimental, melancholic yet often oratorical style."" About his language in general (both in Arabic and English), Salma Khadra Jayyusi remarks that ""because of the spiritual and universal aspect of his general themes, he seems to have chosen a vocabulary less idiomatic than would normally have been chosen by a modern poet conscious of modernism in language."" According to Jean Gibran and Kahlil G. Gibran, ""Ignoring much of the traditional vocabulary and form of classical Arabic, he began to develop a style which reflected the ordinary language he had heard as a child in Besharri and to which he was still exposed in the South End [of Boston]. This use of the colloquial was more a product of his isolation than of a specific intent, but it appealed to thousands of Arab immigrants."""

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his ""study in scarlet"": ""There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.""The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. A Study in Scarlet was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, actor and one of the greatest writers to ever use the English language. He was also the world's greatest playwright of all times, with his plays being translated in over 50 languages and performed across the globe for audiences of all ages. Known as ""The Bard"" or the ""Bard of Avon," Shakespeare created his own theatre on the River Thames in 1599 and named it the Globe Theatre, a historical theatre, that is visited by thousands of tourists every year.Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 -1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.And even after 400 long years, his plays are still read, loved and relevant in today's society. Shakespeare wrote about timeless themes such as life and death, youth and old age, love and hate, fate and freedom, to name but a few. Shakespeare's plays are studied in academia all across the world, the most famous are: Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and Macbeth. Apart from the rich language, these plays contain a great deal of valuable advice.