Welcome to the island where people never die
When Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis's longtime assistant, Maggie, returns to her ancestral home on Ikaria for her 104-year-old grandmother's funeral, she quickly realizes not only was Yiayia likely murdered, but that a series of other long-lived Ikariots had recently died under the same suspicious circumstances. Back in Athens, Andreas and his chief detective Yianni pursue a smuggling and protection ring embedded in the Greek DEA, and its possible involvement in the assassination of an undercover cop.
But then Maggie and Yianni uncover a connection between their respective leads in the elder-killings on Ikaria and the DEA corruption case, and they realize that there are international intrigues far more dangerous at play than anyone had imagined.
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I read this book 3 times. The first 2 times I read it too quickly to fully appreciate it. So the third time, I took my time and compared what I was reading to my honest experience... not as someone bought into a Catholic idealogy, but someone open to his experience... Now, I want everyone I meet to read this book. If you take your time, and not read it already claiming which side you are on, the book can take you on a wrenching...
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Overwhelmingly natural, I'd call this book. You get pleasantly surprised at the description of yourself in such a relieving (really liberating) way. That is a mighty surprise in these days! And, however, since it does describe you, it's... wholly natural, as if somehow you've always had known it. Well, but could it be any other way?Exploring a "religious sense" in us, such as our olfactory, visual or auditive sense, it...
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A guidebook to life. Explains the basic religious nature of man's interaction with reality and calls on the reader to examine his/her experience to see if it coincides with his observations. This book has changed many lives, mine included, and hopefully will continue to explain to many of the deep longing, indeed the 'great question', that lies at the foundations of each human heart. One of the handful of 'essential books'...
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In this book Giussani goes to the core of the question "What does it mean to be human?" better than does anyone else I've read or heard. He shows us how to live in a way that corresponds to our true needs for beauty, truth, happiness and justice..., and not according to the ideals of the common mentality.
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Luigi Giussani, founder of the Catholic lay movement "Communion and Liberation, explores that aspect of human ity that cries out for meaning, with an insight that has not been seen in the later part of this century. He addresses the question of Man's inherent need for meaning. Why are we not satisfied with the answer that there is no meaning to life other than that we are born, we live, and we die. Luigi Giussani shows...
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