The pride of Anthony Doerr that’s really worth the Pulitzer prize! This is one book you will not be able to get hands off. Doerr’s writing is so vivid and picturing that transports the reader into the book story, back in World War II. Little Marie-Laure leaves in Paris with her father. He is working at… Read More “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr
“Stay with me” is the debut novel of Ayobami Adebayo, a very charismatic Nigerian writer. The story is set in the Nigeria of the eighties. The two heroes of the book are Yejide and Akin. The met while in college and fell in love for each other instantly. Their story is the one described in this… Read More “Stay With Me” by Ayobami Adebayo
Samantha Kane, Sam, is the CEO of a huge business that has the money and the means to transform a whole mountain and the surroundings to an attractive luxurious resort. She is just about to, but she is held behind by a man that refuses to sell half his property to the company, Mr. Reed.So… Read More “Make me stay” by Rebecca Brooks
Γράφει η Γεωργία Κωστοπούλου Ένας βράχος στέκει μετέωρος σε μια άκρη της Εύβοιας. Οι κάτοικοι είναι προκατειλημμένοι απέναντί του λόγω του θρύλου που υπάρχει στην περιοχή. Εκεί πάνω όμως υπάρχει ένα μοναστήρι, αφιερωμένο στην Παναγία, απομονωμένο από τον έξω κόσμο και από τους κατοίκους της απέναντι όχθης, τη Νήσο. Στη Νήσο λοιπόν, θα ζήσουν τρία παιδιά… Read More “Η Παναγία των δελφινιών”από τη Θάλεια Κουνούνη
In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo once owned by legendary Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The article transports Antonio back to when the war between Escobar’s Medellín cartel and government forces played out violently in Colombia’s streets and in the skies… Read More “The Sound of Things Falling” by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
The story develops in Buena Vista, a small town in San Antonio, Texas. The year is 1980 and the Texas state is full of sex and drugs, as much as pretty any other state those days, and also some country music. The heroine, Janet, is a journalist from New York, off to a mission to… Read More “The Texan, a Tale of Betrayal and Revenge” by Anne Carey
What can one say of The Torrents of Spring…? This is not a classic Hemingway book. For those who know him and have read his books, this is not going to be one of their favorite. That said, let’s get into the book details. The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago… Read More “The Torrents of Spring” by Ernest Hemingway
Society’s most capable housekeeper, the infallible Miss Eleanora Quinton, has a problem. Not only does a dead body fall right into the middle of her mistress’s ball and her son gets kidnapped, the only person who can help her also forces her to face her most crippling fears. The heroin is a woman that has… Read More “Son of a Duke” by Jessie Clever
Whisper is the story of a Cherokee young girl, Whisper, who has lost both her parents in a car accident six months ago and is trying to recover ever since. She loves animals and she spends her life trying to help those in need, either being injured or abused by humans. It runs in the… Read More “Whisper” by Heather Hildenbrand
When her sister Lila and brother-in-law, Gray, die in a car accident, Bella finds herself parenting her two nephews along with Gray’s best friend, Noah, who she actually hates for being a jerk, show off but pretty handsome US Navy SEAL. Both Lila and Gray were military, so the way they died was also a tragic… Read More “Letters to Love” by Soraya Lane
Γράφει η Γεωργία Κωστοπούλου Η Σελανίκ, ή αλλιώς Θεσσαλονίκη, δεσπόζει στο βορά και καλεί όλους τους ανθρώπους να την ερωτευτούν. Είτε κάτοικοί της, είτε επίδοξοι εραστές της, δεν μπορούν να αντισταθούν στη γοητεία της. Η πόλη των δεκατριών εθνοτήτων θα μεγέψει όσους βρεθούν στα χώματά της με τον ένα ή με τον άλλο τρόπο. Όπως… Read More “Ψίθυροι του Βαρδάρη” από τη Σοφία Βόικου
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without… Over two hundred years after its first publishing, “Pride and Prejudice” remains a joyful reading. Austen truly masters the art of writing and the reader can see that on every page. The humoristic prose with respect… Read More “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
The Manikin is the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Mary Craxton leaves there, even though she never really wanted to, while her husband is dead and her remaining son, Henry Craxton Jr. is away from her, travelling the world. The family has got its money from taxidermy, since… Read More “The Manikin” by Joanna Scott
Γράφει η Γεωργία Κωστοπούλου Το Νιόφυτο ολισθαίνει. Λίγο μετά την άφιξη των Ραγκουδαίων, των πρώην αυτοεξόριστων λόγω εγκλημάτων και πράξεων, το χωριό χάνεται στο βάθος της αβύσσου. Οι κάτοικοι, όσοι απόμειναν και γλύτωσαν από το χαμό, θα μεταφέρουν το καινούριο χωριό στη θάλασσα και από βουνίσιοι θα γίνουν θαλασσινοί. Το Νιόφυτο δεν θα είναι πια ορεινό,… Read More “Η νυχτερινή βάρδια του καλλιγράφου” από τη Μαρία Ξυλούρη
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch… Read More “The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly” by Sun-mi Hwang
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