 Fodor's Greece
Format: Paperback, 560pp.
ISBN: 067900095X
Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications, Incorporated
Pub. Date: April 1999
Edition Desc: 4th Edition
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Fodor's Greece
The best guide to Greece, packed with essentials
Classic Athens, from the Parthenon to Piraeus
Great scenic tours to ancient temples, mountaintop monasteries, the Alexander the Great sites
Idyllic island-hopping: what to see, where to swim
Nightlife, shopping, beaches, sailing, windsurfing
Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Cycladic vacation villages, pastel pensions, sybaritic resorts, top city hotels, Santorini's cliff villas
Waterside tavernas, souvlaki joints, mezedopolia, ouzeri, and the best of Athen's trendy newcomers
Fresh, thorough, practical -- off and on the beaten path
Costs, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All the practical information you'll ever need
39 pages of maps, vacation itineraries, and more
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 Coubertin's Olympics
Format: Paperback, 128pp.
ISBN: 0822597136
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group, The
Pub. Date: July 1995
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Coubertin's Olympics: How the Games Began
Synopsis
This biography of Baron Pierre de Coubertin chronicles his efforts to revive "the Greek Olympic Games to an international level. . . . Kristy describes how {Coubertin's} life goal was reached {in 1896}, the obstacles faced, and the influence of other people in the realization of the Olympics as we know them today. {Annotated bibliography. Index.} Grade five and up." (SLJ)
From the Publisher
Baron de Coubertin realized that the ancient Olympics had a lot in common with his idea for friendly competition. Both were designed to glorify individual achievement instead of national identity. Both created an island of peace and friendship in the midst of conflict.
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 Corelli's Mandolin
Format: Paperback, 437pp.
ISBN: 067976397x
Publisher: Knopf Alfred A
Pub. Date: September 1995
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Corelli's Mandolin
From the Publisher
The Greek island of Cephallonia - peaceful, remote, famed for its beauty, its light, its mythic history - and only just beginning to enter the twentieth century when the tide of World War II rolls onto its shores. This is the setting for Louis de Bernieres's lyrical, heartbreaking, and hilarious chronicle of the days and nights of the island's inhabitants over fifty tumultuous years. "It was an island filled with gods," writes Dr. Iannis, Cephallonia's healer and fledgling historian. And though the people who fill the island in 1940 may be less divine than their Olympian forebears, they are nonetheless divinely human, and none more so than the doctor's daughter, Pelagia. Willful, proud, independent, and beautiful, Pelagia finds herself between two men: Mandras, a handsome young fisherman, besotted with love for her but determined to permanently secure her love (and a dowry from her father) by finding "something to get to grips with" when he joins the resistance; and Captain Corelli, a charming, mandolin-playing, exceedingly reluctant officer of the Italian garrison that establishes the Axis presence on the island. Corelli is thought slightly mad in his passion for music and the gentleness of his troops' "occupation" of Cephallonia. Yet his madness quickly begins to make life seem more "various, rich, and strange" for everyone who encounters him - especially, and most confusingly, for Pelagia... But with the arrival of the Germans and then of the Communists, life on the island becomes more chaotic and barbaric, more certainly a part of the process by which "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then again as tragedy." Pelagia's life, once rife with possibility, an idyll of time, becomes a long search for something fine and lasting amid loss and separation, deprivation and fear. Her story of love found and changed and misplaced, and the story of the life she shares with the people of Cephallonia - a life permanently altered by the war and its brutal after
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 Lonely Planet Greek Islands
Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 535pp.
ISBN: 186450109X
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Pub. Date: April 2000
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Lonely Planet Greek Islands
Description
All you need to know about the Greek Islands, from ferry boats & air ticketing to tips on where to stay
and where to eat. No traveler should be without this well-informed guide.
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 Cooking the Greek Way
Format: Hardcover, 51st ed., 52pp.
ISBN: 0822509105
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group, The
Pub. Date: November 1992
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Cooking the Greek Way
Description
Recipes for authentic Greek foods such as dolmades, baklava, and spinach pie, plus several other recipes for main dishes, appetizers, and desserts.
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 The Mountains of Greece
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1852841087
Mountains of Greece
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The Mountains of Greece
Description
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 The Mt. Olympus Zoo
Format: Paperback, 252pp.
ISBN: 0965848604
Publisher: Lion Stone Books
Pub. Date: July 1997
Recommend Age Range: 12 and up
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The Mt. Olympus Zoo
Description
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 Santorini
Format: Audio
ISBN: 0745161316
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Pub. Date: August 1987
Edition Desc: UNABRIDGED
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Santorini
From the Publisher
An eighty-foot yacht suddenly capsizes in the Aegean, leaving only six survivors. Then, minutes later, in the same area, an unidentified four-engine jet crashes into the sea. Are these twin disasters more than coincidence?
Commander Talbot and the crew of the HMS Ariadne are assigned to retrieve from the ocean floor the jet's volatile cargo: atomic and hydrogen weaponry with the force to destroy millions. As the delicate operation proceeds, Talbot finds himself trapped in a whirl of nightmarish events involving terrorism and drugs -- and a diabolic plot that leads straight to the Pentagon.
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