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Μια παρέκταση της σύγκρουσης ανάμεσα σε δύο υπερδυνάμεις στην εποχή της Ψυχρής Ειρήνης, το \"When Greece turned into a little Japan\" βάζει τον αναγνώστη επάνω σε ένα τεράστιο ορμητικό κύμα που ακολουθεί μια διαδρομή πολιτικής νίκης και ήττας, αγάπης και προδοσίας, θανάτου και καταστροφής.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b98904.jpg","isbn":"960-209-740-X","isbn13":"978-960-209-740-3","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":262,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"18.0","price_updated_at":"2011-01-07","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Όταν η Ελλάδα έγινε μικρή Ιαπωνία","publisher_id":505,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":98904,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/when-greece-turn-into-a-little-japan.json"},{"id":97980,"title":"The Sacred Child","subtitle":null,"description":"1339. A dark and difficult time. Romania is rent by disputes among warring royal houses striving for ascendancy. Knights errant, blood-thirsty nobles, scheming courtiers and mysterious travelers in the night play leading parts in a bloody game of supremacy. The monk Dimitris Spartino, one of the last survivors of the patrician Spartinos family, is forced to flee when a man of royal descent slays his brother and tries to murder him as well. As ha and his retinue are trying to make their ay to Constantinople, he encounters an enigmatic creature that is worshipped as a god, the sacred child. 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It is not the first time Eleni has been caught up in a deadly drama, nor is it her first ride on a \"horror train.\" As the director waves his arms, shouting directions and re-shouting the sequence, Eleni's mind wanders to her first train ride: \"Athens-Piraeus. My first big trip by train. - You're Eleni? I'm Achilles. They don't ask which Achilles. 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