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1	The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond more books like this by Peter G Peterson add to wishlist Full of sharp portraits and humorous, telling descriptions of the many statesmen and financiers Peterson has known over the years, "The Education of an American Dreamer" is a richly satisfying journey through a fascinating man's life. see all copies from $18.39! new only from $18.39! \| first editions \| SVS
2	A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America more books like this by Marilyn Rouvelas, Estella Pucher add to wishlist see all copies from $3.80! new only from $27.95! \| first editions
3	The Orchards of Ithaca more books like this by Harry Mark Petrakis add to wishlist Orestes Panos, a prosperous restaurateur on the eve of his fiftieth year and the coming millennium, personalizes humankind's epic struggle between the unresolved guilt and sins of our shared past and the potential of a still untainted future. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	A Place for Us: Eleni's Family in America more books like this by Nicholas Gage add to wishlist The successor to the international bestseller Eleni, this is the story of a Greek immigrant family with a tragic past, of their trials, joys, and achievements growing up in America. Includes 20 black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 more books like this by Gunther Peck add to wishlist One of the most infamous villains in North America during the Progressive Era was the padrone, a mafia-like immigrant boss who allegedly enslaved his compatriots and kept them uncivilized, unmanly, and unfree. In this history of the padrone, Gunther Peck analyzes the figure's deep cultural resonance by examining the lives of three padrones and the ... see all copies from $15.75! new only from $24.43! \| SVS
6	Greeks in Michigan more books like this by Stavros K Frangos add to wishlist The influence of Greek culture on Michigan began long before the first Greek arrived. This study describes how competing desires to retain heritage and to assimililate have shaped the Greek experience in Michigan. see all copies from $2.69! new only from $10.29! \| SVS
7	I Have an Olive Tree more books like this by Eve Bunting add to wishlist Sophia is a little confused when her grandfather gives her an olive tree for her seventh birthday, especially because the olive tree is in Greece. After her grandfather dies, Sophia and her mother travel to Greece to see Sophia's tree and learn more about their family heritage. Sophia learns more about her grandfather's life and comes to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.36! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Facing Athens: Encounters with the Modern City more books like this by George Sarrinikolaou add to wishlist Sarrinikolaou, a native Athenian expatriated to America, strips the Greek capital of its clichs to reveal a city straining under the passions and burdens of early 21st-century life. see all copies from $4.52! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Amulet of Greek Earth: Generations of Immigrant Folk Culture more books like this by Helen Papanikolas add to wishlist The boys and men who left their Greek valley and mountain villages in the early 1900s for America, came with amulets their mothers had made for them. Some were miniature sacks attached to a necklace; more often they were merely a square of fabric enclosing the values of their lives; a piece of holy book or a silver of the True Cross representing ... see all copies from $4.66! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
10	A Place for Us: Eleni's Children in America more books like this by Nicholas Gage add to wishlist A Place for Us begins as nine-year-old Nicholas Gage and three of his sisters escape from their wartorn Greek village and board a ship to America to meet the father they have never known. Eleni's children must adjust not only to a startling new American lifestyle, but also to a 56-year-old man who suddenly finds himself a single father. 27 black ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Not Even My Name more books like this by Thea Halo add to wishlist NOT EVEN MY NAME is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War 1. But NOT EVEN MY NAME is first and foremost Sano Halo's brilliant and mesmerising memoir, written in haunting and eloquent ... see all copies from $2.44! new only from $8.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	North of Ithaka: A Journey Home Through a Family's Extraordinary Past more books like this by Eleni Gage add to wishlist This is the poignant story of the author's move from New York to Lia--the remote Greek village where her grandmother was murdered, and which her father Nicholas Gage, made famous 20 years ago with his international bestseller "Eleni." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre more books like this by Zeese Papanikolas, Wallace Earle Stegner (Foreword by), Helen Zeese Papanikolas add to wishlist 'The search for Louis Tikas is a search for a shadow, an almost-vanished memory. Like a hound on a cold scent, Papanikolas ...sniffs out labor contractors, militiamen, company detectives, union leaders, politicians, Old World relatives, and childhood companions. Little by little he fills in the jigsaw mosaic that is the history of Greek immigrants ... see all copies from $5.82! new only from $27.34! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Greek Immigrants more books like this by W Scott Ingram, Professor Robert Asher (Editor) add to wishlist The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a "nation of nations." Spanning the time from when the Europeans first came to the New World to the present day, the new "Immigration to the United States" set conveys the excitement of these stories to young people. Beginning with a brief preface to the set ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $52.27!
15 view cover	Collected Stories more books like this by Harry Mark Petrakis add to wishlist The first collection of the short stories of Harry Mark Petrakis was nominated for a National book Award in Fiction, establishing him as a master of the form. Revealing commentaries by the author introduce each story in this collection. In "The Passing of the Ice," Polish icemen suffer the fate of some great doomed Greek line. In "The Song of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	The Anatolian more books like this by Elia Kazan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Ghost of the Sun more books like this by Harry Mark Petrakis, Laura Stewart add to wishlist In 1966, A Dream of Kings was published to extraordinary acclaim and made into a movie starring Anthony Quinn. Now, Harry Mark Petrakis has written Ghost of the Sun, a sequel that has been praised by Andrew Greeley as ". . . a contemporary parable rich in Greek imagery both Christian and Pagan. It confirms Harry Mark Petrakis's reputation as one ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18	Greek Americans, Struggle and Success more books like this by Charles C Moskos add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95! new only from $19.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	There Lies a Hidden Scorpion more books like this by Takis Iakovou, Judy Iakovou add to wishlist Nick and Julia Lambros close down their diner in Delphi, Georgia and head to Florida for a lavish wedding. But en route they witness a car plunge off a bridge and the failed attempt to rescue a young woman. The bride-to-be fears her wedding has been cursed. Nick and Julia become convinced someone is prepared to go to great lengths to stop this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Apple Falls from Apple Tree: Stories more books like this by Helen Papanikolas add to wishlist The title of Helen Papanikolas' second collection of short stories, The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree, is taken from an old Greek proverb and speaks of the new generation's struggle with the vestiges of Greek customs. Gone are the raw, overt emotions of the pioneers, their bold prejudices, and, especially, the haunting black fatalism of funerals. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.87! \| first editions
21 view cover	Nick the Greek more books like this by Harry Mark Petrakis add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	A Greek Odyssey in the American West more books like this by Helen Papanikolas add to wishlist 'A frank and haunting portrayal of two Greek children who grew up to become parents of Americans...Papanikolas has mixed oral history, folk and family lore, primary documents, on-site observations, secondary sources, and personal remembrances into a heady mixture, animated with characters no longer present in the Greek-American world, pungent with ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Days of Vengeance more books like this by Harry Mark Petrakis add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Time of Little Black Bird more books like this by Helen Papanikolas add to wishlist In 1906 a young, semiliterate Greek arrived in America with a few dollars in his pocket and his people's legacy of proverbs, superstitions, and cultural traits to guide him through the dangers and opportunities of a new world. The Time of the Little Black Bird begins with the story of this young man and his plan to build a future for his family as ... see all copies from $3.97! new only from $15.60!
25 view cover	Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism Between Greece and America more books like this by Ioanna Laliotou add to wishlist Viewing the diaspora of early 20th century migration from Southern Europe to the United States, Laliotou recounts the vibrant history of Greek migrants in modern America through close readings of short stories, novels, films, newspapers, and other media of the period. see all copies from $17.95! new only from $18.36!

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