Patmos - Thorbecke - Grünewald - Eschbach - Schwaben - Ver Sacrum The list of Verlagsgruppe Patmos offers a wide range of titles, covering psychology, self-help, memoirs, parenting, spirituality, religion and theology, as well as gift books and children´s books, mostly for First Communion. Our imprint Thorbecke specializes in books on cookery, lifestyle and gardening, on the one hand, as well as books on history and cultural history, on the other hand.
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Sri Senbaga Pathippakam is one of the best publishers in Tamil language. We have published more than 1000 titles including ancient Sangam Tamil literature, research books in Tamil literature and language, mythological books, historical fiction and non-fiction, short stories, cooking books, etc. We also specialize in books for children, bilingual and trilingual dictionaries for the reference of students and general public. We publish Sahitya Academy & Tamilnadu government award winning books. One of our renowned books, 'Thirukkural', a scripture common to every walk of human life irrespective of gender, race or community is a must read for everyone on this planet. It is published in various sizes and design. 'Oviyakkural (Thirukkural with paintings)' portrays Tamil tradition and culture through paintings. Our religious publication about Vainavam and Saivam is popular among scholars. 'Kambar Kavi Inbam' portrays the beauty of poetry as described in Kambar's Ramayanam in Tamil language.
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Kreta – das ist die Heimat Alexis Sorbas‘, die Insel der Männer in ihren schwarzen Hemden und den weißen Stiefeln, aber auch die Insel der Frauen, die ihre Familien zusammenhalten. An diesen Ort seiner Kindheit kehrt Kyriakos Roussias, angesehener Wissenschaftler in den USA, nach fast 30 Jahren zurück und sieht sich mit dem Gesetz der Blutrache konfrontiert: Die Reihe ist nun an ihm, den Tod seines Vaters zu rächen. Kann er sich diesem archaischen Ritual entziehen? Mit jedem Tag seines Aufenthalts wird ihm das ungeschriebene Gesetz der Vendetta vertrauter, und als es zur Begegnung mit dem Mörder seines Vaters kommt, muss er handeln. »Ioanna Karystiani ist ein fesselnder Roman gelungen, der alle Klischees mit Leichtigkeit vermeidet …« Tilman Spreckelsen, »Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung« »Schattenhochzeit ist ein Sozial-Epos und zugleich ein psychologischer Roman über die Suche nach Identität – mit einer leisen Liebesgeschichte.« »Der Spiegel«
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"Kreta – Insel der Mythen und Traditionen: der Raub der Europa, der Minotaurus; das sagenumwobene Knossos und das kretische Labyrinth bergen bis heute Geheimnisse. Die wilde Berglandschaft, die herrlichen Küsten und die verwinkelten Altstädte spiegeln sich in vielen literarischen Texten wider. Der Reisebegleiter Kreta stellt die Städte Chania, Rethymno und Iraklio vor und führt auf den Spuren von Christa Wolf, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Henry Miller, El Greco, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ioanna Karystiani u.v. a. über die größte griechische Insel."
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A dangerous challenge at sea through a rock arch battered by strong waves. She ends up seriously injured in a leg when her friend Aurelio arrives at the cove. Overcoming her pain, she hides her injuries from Aurelio and tells him the extraordinary story of her mother, which propelled her to undertake such a madness. The story begins 6 years ago in Tenerife, with Nayra's expulsion from Philosophy class for the third time in a week, causing Pablo, her father, to pick her up from school and embark on a long day of disputes, confessions, and finally, complicities between them. Walking around Santa Cruz, canceling classes and professional commitments, Pablo and Nayra spend the day discovering a personal and sentimental reality that surprises them. The problems Nayra mentions with a group of immigrant classmates, along with the aggression Nayra shows towards her mother, Lola, prompt Pablo to tell her the unfinished story with Andreea, a high-class Romanian prostitute. Pablo cannot control the level of intimacy of the tale despite his own amazement, hearing himself say things he thought were unspeakable. Nayra responds, between disputes and affection, interspersing her own confidences, some of them having a strong impact, like the adventure with an immigrant who arrived on the beaches of Fuerteventura during a summer excursion. Neither tells the most intimate details of their stories truthfully, but they are accessible to the reader. Despite frequent arguments due to the teenager's incisive and groundbreaking language, their complicity grows and they end up spending the day together, walking through different places in the city. The story with Andreea takes on dramatic tones that completely captivate the young woman. Two suicides, the chase by Romanian mafia, returning to her hometown, searching for Pablo, Andreea’s struggle to regain her dignity and her artistic capacity through painting, and the apparent disappearance of her father's life, capture Nayra’s attention. Despite the narrative tricks used by Pablo, when night falls and they reach home, Nayra connects the dots and is surprised to discover that her perfectionist and successful mother, a recognized painter from Santa Cruz, with whom she has had a very conflictive season, is Andreea Constantin, the Romanian immigrant her father met as a high-class prostitute. After an initial reaction of rejection due to the ignorance in which she was kept, she understands her mother's situation. All the questions she always had about many details of her life arise with the discovery. A few years after discovering her identity, Andreea disappears from home. A call from Romania alerts them to the discovery of two charred bodies near her birthplace and the presence of her old exploiter nearby, who cursed her for life through a Transylvania ritual when she abandoned prostitution. Knowing she was discovered in Tenerife, Andreea tried to keep her family away from danger and returned to her country, where she was easy prey for the mafia. Pablo and his daughter Nayra fly to Bucharest to identify Andreea’s body, which may have been brutally murdered and burned. When it seems the identification will be negative, a small detail of the clothing makes them doubt. Desolate, they receive medical and psychological support from the Romanian team, but it turns out to be a false lead. Andreea is rescued from a hideout and has survived due to a misunderstanding by her captors. Protected by the Romanian police, she later becomes a key witness whose testimony ends the dangerous band of her pimp. But that bravery comes at a price; 2 years later, she does not return from an art exhibition in Paris. The police believe that her exploiter’s curse was fulfilled by a nephew who visited him in prison shortly before his death and was seen in Paris during the days Andreea had the exhibition. After a year of anguish, Nayra can no longer bear the situation and decides to mourn her mother at the cove where she painted her last picture. It had as its background the rock arch symbolizing the risk of living and facing life’s challenges. Nayra considers her mother lost and throws Andreea’s ashes into the sea, symbolized by those of a magnolia branch she planted many years ago. With this, she internalizes the loss and the fighting values Andreea taught her. The exit from the volcanic cove is a song to the life that continues and to the young woman who represents it. The novel is dedicated to the memory of Andreea Constantin and the thousands of women sexually exploited around the world.
Getting and keeping teens interest in mathematics is vital to their future. But how, when there are so many dreary textbooks and repetitive curriculum requirements? Covering everything that they need to know is about all a school can do. What approach would work, when there are million other things for them to do? Ioanna Georgiou and Asuka Young have come up with a novel approach that is based on stories from history – with a twist! Peculiar Deaths combines short stories about key mathematicians from the past and how they died, with details of the mathematical advances that they made. But one of the deaths is made up – but which one?
There are three things our heroine loves more than anything in the summer: the sea, watermelon and grandma’s stories. She enjoys all three every summer once the school is out… Until one summer something changes. The see is still bright, and the watermelon is still sweet, while grandma is looking after her from above. But her fairy tales are still heard, and they are just as sweet. “Once upon a time…”
Readers of this book are impressed by the honesty with which the author describes her fears she has experienced. They are also impressed by the gratitude she expresses to the Master Dimitris Kakalidis who helped her to follow the path to fearlessness. Her language is simple and clear. The style is not affected by the scientific data she cites in order to check it against the teaching of Dimitris Kakalidis. She describes her efforts to "conquer" fear, which for three years was a daily problem in her life. This problem was greatly reduced in the first five months after the day she met Dimitris Kakalidis and received his help. The author’s work is an example that may help those who experience similar fears and phobias. The positive results she experienced led her to seek the path of spirituality and continue her progress to fearlessness. She is now convinced that this is the only road that delivers man from daily tribulations and leads to light, love, and freedom.
