All nominations of BRAINFOOD Publishing for the PUBLIC BOOK AWARDS 2022 May 17, 2022 – Posted in: Books, Brainfood Media Network
PUBLIC BOOK AWARDS 2022 – VOTING PHASE A Until 5/29
Each reader is entitled to a single vote per category. Nominations are listed in alphabetical order.
The nominations of Brainfood Publications:
CATEGORY GREEK NON-FICTION:
THE GREAT ADVENTURE IN SPACE
The Great Adventure in Space", by the astrophysicist and honorary director of the Eugenide Planetarium, Dionysis Simopoulos.
The first book in the new series "Secrets of the Universe" is a fascinating exploration, through all the missions and steps of the human species, of the vast "sea" of space.
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TRANSLATED NOVEL CATEGORY:
POP. 1280
From the OXY publications the classic masterpiece is released POP 1280, from the meter of the "hardboiled" detective novel Jim Thompson!
Sheriff Nick Corey is lousy at his job and he knows it. He has no desire to enforce order, solve problems, and arrest delinquents and criminals, knowing full well that no one in small Potts County cares about the law. And yet, Nick is soon faced with a rather unpleasant situation: two pimps threaten to ruin his already damaged reputation, his girlfriend Rose is being abused by her husband and, worst of all, his wife won't tell to leave him alone. With the sheriff's election looming, Nick will do well to sort out his problems if he wants to keep his position.
Because, however you do it, it's a job with advantages for someone who knows how to take advantage of them...
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CATEGORY GREEK NON-FICTION:
POLITICAL MURDERS IN GREECE
20 + 1 political murders that shocked and marked Greece! The Acid Publications they feature the award-winning journalist's thorough writing George Sarris, Political Assassinations in Greece! Crimes that were meant to change the world – and in some cases they did.
The reader is confronted with her story violence with a political sign, reading documented and comprehensively all the elements of the most important murders from the foundation of the Greek state until today. At the same time, having passed just a few years since the most recent of the murders, it is easy to see that the era of politically motivated crimes is far from over.
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WHITE PLAGUE
Violence, anarchy and bioterrorism in a gripping novel from Dune creator Frank Herbert. The Acid Publications are very happy to present to the reading public, for the first time in Greek, the science fiction novel The White Plague, from the meter of the species Frank Herbert.
Could the blind vengeance of a single man threaten the entire human race? What would life be like in a world with few women?
When molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill loses his wife and children in a terrorist attack, he decides to take his rage to global proportions: he constructs an advanced virus that proves deadly to all female living things.
A bioethical thriller with a stormy plot, written by science fiction master Frank Herbert.
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GREEK STORY CATEGORY:
MAYBE #1: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY GREEK FICTION
The Acid Publications in collaboration with Athenian Science Fiction Club (ALEF) present to the reading public through this publication a unique anthology of short stories of the fantastic, eleven short stories by Greek authors that explore the limits of human imagination and overcome them!
Eleven of the best short stories of modern Greek fiction, selected by Athenian Science Fiction Club (ALEF), eleven imaginary worlds: you will judge how near or far from ours.
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CATEGORY GREEK NON-FICTION:
CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE TRENCHES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Orwell's articles and essays on politics, society and other… demons.
No doubt a saint should avoid things like alcohol, smoking and so on, but on the other hand a person should also avoid things like sainthood. We have selected ten characteristic essays and articles by him George Orwell and we've included them in this brand new edition of the series Selected!
It is comforting to read about events that seem familiar and relevant even though they happened more than eighty years ago – often under the ominous shadow of fascism spreading across Europe – as seen and recorded by George Orwell. Which means: observational intelligence, insight, empathy (though the term was not so tried in its time), a constant awareness of social and racial inequality, and a deep intolerance of the practices of totalitarianism.
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TERROR IN THE MALL
Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore. Every morning upon opening, employees discover broken shelves, smashed crockery and broken wardrobes. Sales are plummeting, security cameras aren't recording anything, and managers are in a panic. To solve the mystery, three workers volunteer to take on a night shift. In the dead of night, they patrol the exhibition grounds, investigate strange shapes and sounds, and encounter horrors beyond imagination.
The Acid publications present the inspiring and best-selling novel in Greek Terror at the Mall, by the writer and journalist Grady Hendrix. Inventive and original, it stands out both for the idea of capturing the "haunted" department store (!), and for its social criticism of blind consumerism.
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SUMMER TRIP
In SUMMER JOURNEY, Truman Capote expertly weaves both the environment and the character of his heroine, understands her weaknesses, consistently orchestrates her unpredictable actions, and writes a genuine coming-of-age novel that is also a paean to New York City. , but also a little literary gem that was discovered twenty years after the author's death and maintains undiminished to this day all his youthful drive.
The until recently lost, Truman Capote's first novel was to be the last to be published, just a few years before, in 2005. Publications Floral Books publish Summer Travel in Greek, translated by Giorgos T. Karampelas.
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LIFESTYLE CATEGORY
GIFTED EDUCATION. HOW DIFFICULTIES BECOME ADVANTAGES
Her new book Elenis Garifalakis "Charismatic Education. How difficulties become an advantage" released by the publications The Art of Living. In the book Mrs. Garifalaki, in her context of Spin theory which she has created to approach emotional, social and multiple intelligences at school, analyzes the learning difficulties that children encounter in the modern age of the written word and digital image and using their learning advantage, proposes alternative educational methods.
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CATEGORY GREEK NON-FICTION:
WOMEN TOWARD HUMANITY: STORIES OF SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS
The Floral Publications and the Brainfood Publishing are delighted to present her latest book Elizabeth Filippouli, a collection of letters from accomplished women from around the world who inspire through their personal stories.
THE Elizabeth Filippouli turns these letters into a kind of "collective voice" on social issues such as gender equality, the refugee crisis, the LGBT movement, violence against women and racism, the COVID-19 pandemic.
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THE BLOOD COUNTESS
The Acid Publications with great pride deliver to the Greek readership the important work of the Argentinian poetess Alejandra Pizarnik, "The Blood Countess", first published in 1966, here with the – crimson, white and black – illustration by the visual artist Santiago Caruso.
An imposing 16th-century countess spends her days locked away in her remote castle with her faithful maids, at the northern tip of Hungary, on the imaginary border between East and West.
It could be a standard gothic story, except the Countess has one thing in particular: the only thing she really enjoys is orchestrating the sadistic abuse, torture and killing of young girls…
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SCARY STORIES
The Acid Publications offer the Greek reading public the first part of his super-luxurious collection of short stories Edgar Allan Poe, "Macabre Stories," translated and edited by the man who first introduced it to Europe, the Charles Baudelaire. The edition is illustrated by the internationally renowned, superstar, French artist Benjamin Lacombe.
The first volume contains eight short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, as well as an essay by Charles Baudelaire on the life and work of the unsurpassed American author, who laid the foundations for the development of both detective stories and horror and fantasy in literature .
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GREEK CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CATEGORY
WHEN THE GIRL DECIDED
Meet her little, masked heroine Group F, in her first hilarious story, published by Fourfouri Publications! What happened "When the Girl Decided"... overcome her fear of the sea and learn to swim? Who will give her information? How will he learn what he doesn't know? Who will help her?
Will he succeed or not? It doesn't matter. Anyway, it's the effort that counts! The home becomes her training ground and the colorful adventures the mirror of all the daily successes and failures of every little reader.
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GREEK CHILDREN'S LITERATURE CATEGORY
THE HORSE THAT DIDN'T FIGHT... AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
The Fourfouri Publications are very pleased to present The Horse That Didn't Fight, the collection of stories by Sofia Politou-Berveri with the "warm" illustrations of Natalia Kapatsoulias for young, studious readers.
Little Altancegcheg dancing on the horse's back, the incredible sea adventure of the fisherman Toakai, Ganu, the son of the fearless African warrior, a girl who keeps company with a bear, Yon and his red carapace, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and the silent women searching for the song of life tenderly unfold the thread of the narrative.
Seven unique stories that look like... fairy tales and will remain unforgettable for you anyway.
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CATEGORY GREEK NOVEL
THE COLORS OF SINTRIVANIA OF FOKIONOS NEGRI
The Acid publications are happy to present the new book by Stefanos Tsitsopoulos, "The Pale Fountains of Fokion Negri", a paean in the neighborhood of Kypseli, a voluptuous fresco of the period, a novel with characters that acrobat on the borders of reality and fantasy.
Stefanos Tsitsopoulos takes the readers on a dizzying speed roller-coaster of decades, to meet real and non-existent people. From the Ramones and Milto Shaktouri to George Lanthimos, Yiannis Nasta of Xaxakes, the prankster Kanaris, Eric Clapton, but also Milto Rogotis, two ladies with dyed siel wool, the stripper Rita Kadilak and two close friends, Lina and Lilica – all protagonists of the book. A meeting point, socializing, adventure and action, the legendary (pedestrian) street of Fokionos Negri, from Patision to Kypseli Square.
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CATEGORY GREEK NON-FICTION:
THE FACT: WHY 9/11 CHANGED THE WORLD
With great pleasure, Acid Publications present his work Panagi Panagiotopoulou "The fact. Why the 11th?the September changed the world." 20 years after the moment that set the world in a new era, the author's questions, his radical approach and his cool look - even though the book was completed only a few months after the terrorist attack - seem so timely and well-considered that provide the necessary guarantees that led to the reissuance of this document. This time with the epitome of the professor of A.P.Th. Nikola Sevastakis.
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CATEGORY GREEK NOVEL
SENSITIVE MONKEYS
Fokionos Negri 23a, March 2020. In a model apartment building, the janitor does everything to avoid the spread of the virus, fighting with the past that has stigmatized him. The student of the former rarely breaks down, ending up hugging a saxophone. The tenants in the second are now old and dance on the roof, changing habits of years. Father Theofilos is self-abnegating in his apartment, across from the "Lady of the Third" who only receives visitors and is always waiting for something. The fourth grade family, with the teacher insisting, Angeliki still being searched for and a mother-in-law among them, experiences the change for the first time. A Cuban living on the fifth is left to memories and as much life as he still has, with the disease gnawing at his lungs. Familiar, next-door stories that remind us how vulnerable we are.
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CATEGORY GREEK NOVEL
DARK SCREEN
The lonely man lives in a ramshackle house with two clay Caryatids on the narrow balcony and a plucked cherry tree in the yard. They call him Closed because no one knows his name, nor where he sprung from. He jams in his neighborhood cinema and travels alone in the front row. It is the moment when the blue mice break out of the cage and lick the girls' bare heels, the pasatembu husks, his pierced nipples and the blood of his wound.
A charming wander through a violent past, with subversive daydreams of a fringe cinephile and dangerous developments that stretch time in a kaleidoscope of images, colors and smells. In this stormy alternation, the fabricated dreams of Cleistos are born and killed on the screen of the summer cinema, now soaked by the winter rain.
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GREEK STORY CATEGORY:
THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS
The Acid publications present the collection of short stories by the renowned journalist and author Evangelos Aretaios "The Road to Damascus". The author, having experienced through his travels what the phrase "The Road to Damascus” - something real, the true, the existent - is inspired and describes the lives of seven different people who had killed or cheated, people who had rolled in the mud by making big mistakes. People who everyone knew about their crimes or others who only knew about them, people who had felt betrayed or others who chose to take their love to its limitless limits.
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GREEK STORY CATEGORY:
WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES
The Acid publications are pleased to present the new book by the up-and-coming Greek horror writer Giorgos Messolongitis "When I Close My Eyes".
The first horror book by a Greek author published by Oxy publications is now a reality and they had a good reason to do so, the pen and imagination of Giorgos Messolongitis.
Seven stories, seven dreams, seven nightmarish realities. Through the pages of the book you will meet them like old friends
