greek americans

Traces the history of Greek emigration from classical times to the present day, with emphasis on the problems of Greek immigrants in the United States and their contributions to America's history and culture.

An overview of the history and daily lives of Greek people who immigrated to the United States.

While helping her crippled grandfather by diving for sponges, Alexandra discovers that someone is smuggling cocaine.

'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license records my first name simply as Cal.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, "Middlesex" is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

While helping her crippled grandfather by diving for sponges from the family boat after the death of her diver father, Alexandra discovers that someone is using their sponges as a hiding-place for smuggled cocaine.

After her grandfather's death, eight-year-old Sophia fulfills his last request and journeys to Greece with her mother to see the land where her roots are.

Discusses the reasons Greek people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.

Sofie Metropolis, a private detective in Queens, New York, is hired by the neighborhood vampire to prove he is not responsible for a string of killings, while her mother Thalia volunteers her to look for a missing woman Thalia has adopted in absentia, and bounty hunter Jake Porter and Greek baker Dino vie for her attention.

Traces the history of Greek emigration from classical times to the present day with emphasis on the problems of Greek immigrants in the United States and their contributions to America's history and culture.

Discusses in text and photographs the history, culture, and religion of the Greeks, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.