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Durrell, Lawrence
Bitter Lemons
Durrell's perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government on the verge of revolution. Here are unforgettable pictures of the sunlit villages and people, the ancient buildings, mountains and sea-and the sombre political tragedy that finally engulfed the island. 255p. Illus.index.Clean and crisp. Red cloth embossed with yellow & gold. Book
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Durrell, Gerald
Birds,Beasts and Relatives
Sequel to "My Family and Other Animals" recounting more hilarious adventures of the Durrell family (with assorted wildlife) on Corfu. Book
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Lewis, Gladys Francis
Joshua Doan
A novel based on events in Upper Canada featuring Joshua Doan an his participation in the rebellion of 1837. 319p. Crisp tight copy, Author signature on ffep.Slight fading along spine,red remainder maek on bottom, else fine else finered remainder mark on bottom Book
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Fraser,Nicholas (Sunday Times)
Aristotle Onassis
Comprehensive biography of Onassis assembled by a team of journalists at the Sunday Times - Nicholas Fraser,Philip Jacobson,Mark Ottaway and Lewis Chester.'The authors show exactly how Onassis, with his customary stealth and panache. "bought the bank of Monte Carlo" and touched off a feud with Prince Renier that was to endure for more than 15 years. They reveal why Onassis was investigated by the FBI and CIA, his scandalous venture into the whaling industry, etc, etc. "Loved and hated, feared and revered, Onassis emerges as a brilliant, beguiling rogue..." 486p. illus.bibliography.index.Condition : Good Book
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Dempster,Nigel
Heiress : The Story of Christina Onassis
Christina Onassis lived,she once said,in a world where everything shimmered.Not yet embarked on her playgirl path,not yet in possession of the fortune that would make her the richest woman on earth,the future beckoned brilliantly.She was seventeen years old,and she would never be happy again. The world followed the tragic tale of Christina Onassis:her childhood in a charmed world of pampered neglect,with her parent"s affection scrawled on postcards and wrapped in second-hand hugs from passing friends;her spoiled,beautiful mother"s quickie divorce and remarriage to an English peer,her father"s scandalous liaisons with Maria Callas and Jackie Kennedy;the violent deaths of her beloved aunt Eugenie Niarchos and her brother Alexander,the battle of wills with her father,and her escape into the international jet set;her inheritance of his empire,which she ruled with the ruthless verve of a true Onassis;and her own long odyssey in search of happiness,ending with sudden death in Argentina,away from her fourth husband and the child she loved so much. Christina"s story - a story of money,sex,drama and intrigue among the very rich - reached out to millions of people.Yet the woman herself,strong and passionate,remained a mystery. Dempster,the gossip columnist for the Daily Mail,knows her story intimately.His Heiress is compulsive reading,packed with new revelations.But it is more than simply an expose.It is a study of wealth and power,and of the woman who wielded both in a fierce hunt for love.s Book
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Hutchins, Chris & Thompson, Peter
Athina : The Last Onassis
Tthe richest little girl in the world, has inherited much more than unimaginable wealth from her heiress mother, Christina Onassis. In her twelfth year, she is fully aware of the headline-making battle between her French father, Thierry Roussel, and a group of Greek trustees for control of her share of the Onassis billions. This compelling book explores the legend of Athina's grandfather, the shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, and examines the legacy that is Athina's extraordinary birthright as the Last Onassis."The battle over the richest little girl in the world" 250p. plates bibliography Book
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Evans, Peter
Ari : The Life and Times of Aristotle Onassis
Detailed and well researched biography of Aristotle Onassis. Peopled with movie stars and dictators, tycoons and royalty, Ari tells of bitter family feuds and tenuous alliances, international scandals, lawsuits, passionate affairs, and chicanery in the world of the very rich. No one was richer, more powerful, more publicized, or more outrageous than Aristotle Onassis. Combining shrewd cunning, extraordinary energy, and amoral charm, the Green Onassis rose from the brutal back streets of Smyrna, Turkey, to run an international business empire. He controlled one of the world's largest shipping lines, owned an international airline, bought and sold the bank of Monte Carlo, and made a reputation as one of the most ruthless deal-makers of his aHC. 359p. Illus. notes. index. Book
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Davis, L.J.
Onassis : Aristotle and Christina
A biography of the Greek shipping magnate, and his daughter. "The author details Onassis's financial coups, rivalries, many romantic affairs, friendships, etc. More engrossing sections describe his daughter Christina's life, stressing the vast difference between the private woman and the adopted persona. Outwardly, she suggests a neurotic: four failed marriages interrupting frantic running around in search of diversions. But Davis shows that Christina has inherited and is wisely using her father's business acumen. Immediately after his death, she took control of the Onassis empire and is building on it. The book is sharply witty and entertaining" 269p. plates. index, Book
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Wright,William
All The Pain That Money Can Buy : The Life of Christina Onassis
The life of Christina Onassis from a privileged childhood through her failed marriages and her enormous fortune until her early death. HC 399p. illus.index. Book
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Lottman, Eileen
The Greek Tycoon
Book based on a movie inspired by the story of Aristotle Onassis. (original story by Nico Mastorakis,Win Wells & Mort Fine) Pbk. 222p. Book
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Lottman, Eileen
The Greek Tycoon
Book of the movie inspired by the story of Aristotle Onassis. Based on a screenplay by Mort Fine from a story by Nico Mastorakis,Win Wells & Mort Fine) 222p. Book
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Durrell, Gerald
Fillets of Plaice
Further funny adventures of Gerald Durrell family in Corfu, England & elsewhere. Book
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Durrell, Gerald
My Family and Other Animals
Young Gerald observes his family and their friends with the same fascination as he does the abundant wildlife of Corfu - hilarious and delightful. Book
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Durrell, Gerald
My Family and Other Animals
Young Gerald observes his family and their friends with the same fascination as he does the abundant wildlife of Corfu - hilarious and delightful. (Vintage Penguin edition) 301p, Age-toned paper, name of owner, else fine Book
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Durrell, Jacquie
Intimate Relations
Jacquie Durrell's account of life with Gerald and his menagerie ! 160p.plates.Neat tight copy, ffep missing, minimal signs of library ownership. Ex-Library
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Dempster,Nigel
Heiress : The Story of Christina Onassis
Christina Onassis lived,she once said,in a world where everything shimmered.Not yet embarked on her playgirl path,not yet in possession of the fortune that would make her the richest woman on earth,the future beckoned brilliantly.She was seventeen years old,and she would never be happy again. The world followed the tragic tale of Christina Onassis:her childhood in a charmed world of pampered neglect,with her parent"s affection scrawled on postcards and wrapped in second-hand hugs from passing friends;her spoiled,beautiful mother"s quickie divorce and remarriage to an English peer,her father"s scandalous liaisons with Maria Callas and Jackie Kennedy;the violent deaths of her beloved aunt Eugenie Niarchos and her brother Alexander,the battle of wills with her father,and her escape into the international jet set;her inheritance of his empire,which she ruled with the ruthless verve of a true Onassis;and her own long odyssey in search of happiness,ending with sudden death in Argentina,away from her fourth husband and the child she loved so much. Christina"s story - a story of money,sex,drama and intrigue among the very rich - reached out to millions of people.Yet the woman herself,strong and passionate,remained a mystery. Dempster,the gossip columnist for the Daily Mail,knows her story intimately.His Heiress is compulsive reading,packed with new revelations.But it is more than simply an expose.It is a study of wealth and power,and of the woman who wielded both in a fierce hunt for love. Book
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Dempster,Nigel
Heiress : The Story of Christina Onassis
Christina Onassis "A story of money, sex, drama and intrique amongst the very rich." LARGE TYPE edition 264p + plates. Clean. tight copy, final end paper missing and a single library "withdrawn" stamp. Ex-Library
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Moutsatsos, Kiki Feroudi; Karas, Phyllis
The Onassis Women: An Eyewitness Account
The author was Aristotle Onassis' private secretary from 1966 to 1975 and either arranged, witnessed, or heard about every aspect of life in the Onassis family during the last decade of his life- -including his longtime affair with Maria Callas, his marriage to Jackie Kennedy, and the death of his son, Alexander" 386p. Book
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Bradford, Sarah
America's Queen : The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Comprehensive biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book
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Wright,William
All The Pain That Money Can Buy : The Life of Christina Onassis
The life of Christina Onassis from a privileged childhood through her failed marriages and her enormous fortune until her early death. HC 399p. illus.index. Book
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Meneghini,Giovanni Battista & Allegru, Renzo
My Wife, Maria Callas
At the age of 85, the author decided to offer this extraordinarily candid portrait of the most famous soprano of the century. He dictated these reminiscences shortly before his death, drawing upon unpublished autobiographical notes left by his wife, his own diaries, and dozens of intimate letters written to him by her when she was away on tour and published here for the first time. "Maria Callas Mia Moglie" was written with the collaboration of Renzo Allegri and translated from Italian by Henry Wisneski who also wrote the introduction .331p. + plates Book
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Kelley, Kitty
The Royals
" Draws on more than one thousand interviews [and innumerable tabloid exposes ] to present a revelatory biography of Britain's embattled House of Windsor.547p. plates, notes bibliography, index Genealogical tables on end papers Book
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Christopher, Prince of Greece
Memoirs of H.R.H. Prince Christopher of Greece
Interesting personal memories by Prince Christopher, youngest son of King George I of Greece and Queen Olga. Includes family evens and photographs. Political observations rather lacking, though noticably not in favour of Venizelos!. Cloth binding. 287p. Illus.index. Paper slightly age toned, else fine. Book
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Jannopoulo, Helen P [Phiambolis]
And Across Big Seas
Autobiography of a childhood growing up as the daughter of a Greek Orthodox priest in Romania,, and later in Greece, before emigrating to the USA when her father was sent (1892) to establish the first Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago (later she married Demetrios Jannopoulo, Greek Consul in St. Louis c. 1900) Her niece Ariadne Thompson wrote a kind of sequel to this story in her own autobiography "The Octagonal Heart" 353p. illus.Maps on end papers Donor inscription, else fine. Book
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Gaines Richard & Segal,Michael
Dukakis and the Reform Impulse
Description of the political philosophy and activities of Michael Dukakis as Governor of Massachusetts, and up to the Presidential nomination. 247p. plares, Book
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Dukakis,Kitty & Scovell,Jane
Now You Know
Personal biography of the wife of the Michael Dukakis,Greek-American former Governor of Massachussetts and Presidential candidate, telling of her long fight with drug addiction and alcoholism. 315p.+ 8 pages of plates. Book
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Gaines Richard & Segal,Michael
Dukakis : The Man Who Would be President
Biography of Michael Dukakis as Governor of Massachusetts and Presidential nominee. 247p.+ 6 pages of plates. Book
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Kenney,Charles & Turner,Robert
Dukakis : An American Odyssey
Biography of Michael Dukakis,Governer of Massachusetts and Presidential candidate 260p.plates.index Book
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Dukakis,Kitty & Scovell,Jane
Now You Know
Personal biography of the wife of the Michael Dukakis,Greek-American former Governor of Massachussetts and Presidential candidate, telling of her long fight with drug addiction and alcoholism. 315p. plates. Book
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Bonet I Armengol, Jordi
Temple Sagrada Familia
An illustrated account of the still ongoing construction of Gaudi's Church of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona from its first foundation stone in 1882 until 2000.Visually unique it is also a model complex of structural engineering.This is demonstrated by the most recent photographs which display the intricate network of scaffolding and the I40 meter high crane used to install the structural components. Computer-aided design technology was introduced to accelerate construction of the building by the former director of the project Jordi Bonet i Armengol [the author of this book] There are also closeup shots of the various intricate carvings and decorative features of this amazing building.126p. illus.Stated first [English] edition.NOTE : large format [27x25x5m]and heavy volume [1.3kg] Book
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Vardalos, Nia
Instant Mom
"On a rainy morning in early 2003, Nia Vardalos found out that she had been nominated for an Oscar for writing the sceenplay for My Big, Fat Greek Wedding . But her mind was not on champagne and celebratory cheer. Instead, she was alone, en route to a fertility clinic, trying yet again for another chance at motherhood. In her attempts to make a baby, Vardalos tried everything from drinking daily jugs of green-mud-tea to voodoo-doll-like acupuncture, to working with two surrogates. All the while she was trying to advance her film career, writing films while dodging questions from family, friends, and Hollywood reporters who continually asked Where s the baby? She decided to try adoption and discovered Foster Family Agencies, meeting social workers and eventually getting paired up with a three year old girl with blonde streaks in her hair who she knew, instantly, was her daughter. With her signature wit and candor, in Instant Mom Vardalos opens up about what came next - the heartaches and smiles, tears and laughter that all make up what it means to be a parent. Filled with stories about Vardalos life in the Hollywood scene - she counts Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and Sean Hayes as friends - and her unique take on the tough but often hilarious moments that make up motherhood, Instant Mom is about how stubborn optimism can work in one's favor, and how it was this very optimism that brought Nia to her daughter against all of the odds. Book
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Metochos : Business,life, Culture. [Volume 1 # 2 ]
Glossy magazine with feature articles on Greek Canadians, covering business, legal advice (covering both wealth and health) politics and culture. Bi-lingual Greek and English. This issue covers the Kallas family of Vancouver, the writers Tess Fragoulis, and Andre Geromylatos, the singer Maria Antonakos 128p.illus [2 Locations found in Worldcat] Magazine
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Catsakis Bywater, Lica [Hariclea]
Family History Research in Greece
Comprehensive guide to researching Greek Genealogy. Includes : Beginning your Research, Sources for Genealogical Research, Greek History, More about Greece, Greek Migration, Locating Places in Greece (with details about various gazetteers - geographical dictionaries), Churches and Religious Denominations (with addresses of dioceses, and Patriarchate), Research by Mail (with form letters in Greek and their English translation, and Family questionnaire for relatives to fill in information about common ancestors), Learn about Names, The Language (with basics about grammar and a list of words you will see in Greek records), Numbers and Units of Time. Two Appendices: Glossary (of Greek and English words); and Greek Given Names their Variations, their English Equivalents, and Name-days. Pictures of ancestors and of the land, Maps, and photocopies of Greek Records and Certificates.xii,157p. illus Book
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Catsakis Bywater, Lica [Hariclea] + Schlyter, Daniel M.
Greek Genealogical Research
A manual on how to proceed with family research - Sources, how to make enquiries in Greece - with sample form letters in Greek, a list of religious offices in Greece where local birth/marriage and death records may be found, plus all kinds of other helpful tips.79p. [11 Copies found in Worldcat] Book
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Davis, L.J.
Onassis : Aristotle and Christina
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Brady, Frank
Onassis : An Extravagant Life.
Rather uncritical biography of Aristotle Onassis. HC. 218p. illus.index. Book
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Papoutsy, Christos
Everything for the Children . At the Expense of Whom? / Ola Gia Ta Paidia
"Years of experience in mediating legal disputes .gave the author a unique vantage point in human-family dynamics . to resolve differences between opposing parties. Concurrent philanthropic activities at local and international levels led him to consider the meaning and value of legacies and heritage, often principal interests among Greek societies. Why do benefactors donate? What do they hope to achieve? And extending the discussion to the more personal setting of one's family, why do some parents toil endlessly to assist adult children? What legacy to they hope to leave their children? How do parents' efforts affect their children? The challenges and rewards that giving presents today for persons of Greek descent spurred his latest authorial work which focuses on the "Greek mother." Book
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Just, Roger
A Greek Island Cosmos : Kinship and community in Meganisi
"Meganisi is one of the smallest and most remote of the Greek Ionian islands . [this book ].reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater. The villages of Meganisi are also .tightly-knit communities, and this detailed ethnographic study explores the basis on which th islander's solidarity and sense of identity are constructed and reconstructed despite population mobility and economic change : the values, sentiments and structures of kinship and family." 276p. illus, maps. bibliography. index. Book
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Moutsatsos, Kiki Feroudi; Karas, Phyllis
The Onassis Women: An Eyewitness Account
The author was Aristotle Onassis' private secretary from 1966 to 1975 and either arranged, witnessed, or heard about every aspect of life in the Onassis family during the last decade of his life- -including his longtime affair with Maria Callas, his marriage to Jackie Kennedy, and the death of his son Alexander" Audio book on 2 cassette tapes read by Judy Kaye.Playing time 3 hours. NEW still sealed in shrink wrap Audio Book
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Davis, L. J.
Onassis: Aristotle and Christina
Book
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Watney, Hedda Lyons
Jackie O.
Book
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Heymann,C.David
A Woman Named Jackie
Comprehensive biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book
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Heymann,C.David
A Woman Named Jackie
Comprehensive biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book
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Klein ,Edward
Just Jackie : Her Private Years
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Moutsatos,Kiki Feroudi & Karas, Phyllis
The Onassis Women : An Insider's Intimate Portrait
The author was Aristotle Onassis' private secretary from 1966 to 1975 and was a involved in most of the events of the Onassis family. Book
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Lee, Arthur S. Gould
The Royal House of Greece.
Sympathetic account of the Greek Royal family and their tribulations, especially during WW II. 296p+ plates. index. Text clean and neat, corners bumped, some edgewear. Book
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Anderson, Christopher
Jackie After Jack : Portrait of the Lady
Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book
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Cafarakis,Christian (trans.Jacques Harvey)
Fabulous Onassis : His Life and Loves.
Short biography of Aristotle Onassis , his wealth and his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy. Hardcover.136p. illus.index. ) Book
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Cafarakis,Christian (trans.Jacques Harvey)
Fabulous Onassis : His Life and Loves.
Short biography of Aristotle Onassis , his wealth and his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy. Hardcover.136p. illus.index. Book
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Frischauer,Willi
Onassis
" A biography of the Golden Greek shipowner" 287p. plates. index Book
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