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"Sadie Jones has a long literary future ahead of her." -Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring Fresh off her triumphantly assured debut novel The Outcast, award-winning author Sadie Jones has again delivered a quiet masterpiece in Small Wars. Set on the colonial, war-torn island of Cyprus in 1956, Jones tells the story of a young solider, Hal Treherne, and the effects of this "small war" on him, his wife Clara, and their family. Reminiscent...
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A "novel about loyalty, love, and resilience in the face of tremendous upheaval--a saga of survival set during the 1974 Cypriot coup d'état that tells the intersecting stories of three families whose lives are decimated when brewing ethnic tensions erupt into conflict"--Amazon.com.
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Having melted easily into Cyprus's relaxed expat community, fugitive crime writer David Mitre is feeling relatively secure. His cash stashed in secret accounts and his exit routes mapped out, he can concentrate on his writing. All that changes when he's witness to a cold-blooded murder in broad daylight on Paphos Beach. The killing brings David to the attention of the FBI, who forcefully request his help in solving a crime far worse than anything...
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"A serial bomber is wreaking havoc throughout Europe. Former New York City cop Michael Finnigan and former Spanish assassin Katalin Fiero -- the brains behind St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking, a covert bounty-hunting operation based in Cyprus -- may be the only ones who can stop the carnage. The partners have a reputation for tracking down the worst of the worst in international crime, all while staying firmly under the radar. But as they draw ever...
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"From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan nanny and how the most vulnerable people find their voices. "It began with a crunch of leaves and earth. So early, so cold, the branches shone with ice. I'd returned to collect the songbirds. They are worth more than their weight in gold." Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate...
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It has been 24 years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, 'Pandora', is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family. Yet, as soon as Helena arrives at Pandora, she knows that its idyllic beauty masks a web of secrets that she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son.
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"Dwadzieścia cztery lata temu Helena spędziła magiczne wakacje na Cyprze. Zakochała się wtedy pierwszy raz. Gdy ojciec chrzestny zostawia jej w spadku popadającą w ruinę willę Pandora, Helena powraca na słoneczną wyspę, by wraz z rodziną spędzić tam wakacje. Idylliczny krajobraz wyspy skrywa jednak gęstą pajęczynę sekretów. Helena za nic nie pozwoli, by dowiedzieli się o nich William i Alex, jej mąż i syn. Przeżywający udręki...
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"On the island of Cyprus, in the overgrown ruins of Varosha--a resort town abandoned since the Turkish invasion of 1974--a secret village thrives. Here, a community of resourceful exiles and refugees lives under the radar of the Turkish authorities, thanks to the good-natured, cheerfully corrupt Colonel Kaya. Each villager has his or her own cryptic reasons for hiding among the lemon and olive trees, for trying to keep the outside world at bay. Into...
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Latem 1972 roku, Famagusta na Cyprze jest nachętniej odwiedzanym kurortem wakacyjnym w basenie Morza Śródziemnego. Miastu sprzyja fortuna. Ambitna para inwestorów zamierza wybudować luksusowy hotel, w którym Grecy i Turcy będą pracować razem na spektakularny sukces. Pomiędzy Cypryjczykami, którzy w Famaguście szukają ucieczki przed przemocą i etnicznymi sporami, są rodziny Georgiusów i Özkansów.
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Han pasado veinticuatro años desde que una joven Helena pasó unas vacaciones mágicas en Chipre, donde se enamoró por primera vez. Cuando su padrino le deja la casa ahora derruida, 'Pandora', ella regresa para pasar el verano allí con su familia. Sin embargo, Helena sabe que la belleza idílica de Pandora enmascara una red de secretos que ha ocultado a William, su marido, y Alex, su hijo. A la difícil edad de trece años, Alex se debate entre...
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