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Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world ... forever.
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"Not Even My Name is the story of Sano Halo's survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family - as told to her daughter, Thea - and the mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano's home seventy years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek from a small village near the Black Sea, also recounts the end of her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountains." "In the spring of 1920, Turkish soldiers pounded on doors...
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Sofie's a young Greek-American woman working and living in Astoria, Queens. If you'd asked her a few months ago what she'd be doing now, she'd have replied, "I'm going to be married to the man of my dreams and working at my father's Greek restaurant. Or maybe my grandfather's Greek restaurant." Now Sofie's trading barbs with Pimply Pino, who was a pain when they were in school together and is even worse now that he's a cop and she's a P.I. She's searching...