Libros Libertad Publishing

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Manolis was born in the small village Kolibari west of Chania on the Greek island of Crete in 1947. At a young age his family moved first to Thessaloniki and then to Athens where he was educated, achieving a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science at Panteion Supreme School of Athens. He served in the armed forces for two years, and emigrated to Vancouver in 1973, where he worked in several different jobs over the years.

He attended Simon Fraser University for a year, taking English Literature in a non-degree program. He has written three novels, a large number of collections of poetry, which are slowly appearing as published works, various articles and short stories in Greek as well as in English. After working as an iron worker, train labourer, taxi driver, and stock broker, he now lives in White Rock where he spends his time writing, gardening, and traveling.

Towards the end of 2006 he founded Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company in Surrey, BC, with the goal of publishing literary books.

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Swamped
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 102,200. Language: English. Published: February 15, 2021 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Biographical, Fiction » Romance » General
This book is a compass that guides the reader through the vortex of life and the whims of the stock market.
Titos Patrikios: SelectedPoems
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 34,660. Language: English. Published: November 1, 2020 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
I write because I enjoy it and because it torments me. However, today’s way of life doesn’t inspire me although I may write about it in the near future. I keep notes, observe pictures, process stimuli, and compose thoughts. From these, a material may emerge that may be channeled into verse later on.
Yannis Ritsos - Poems. Selected Books – Volume II
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 68,210. Language: English. Published: February 24, 2020 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
When Yannis Ritsos’s 'Moonlight Sonata' was published in France in 1961 the famous surrealist poet Louis Aragon called Ritsos the best poet in the world. Having read and studied the works of innumerable poets over the years, I have concluded that Aragon was right.
Katerina Anghelaki Rooke. Selected Poems
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 14,540. Language: English. Published: August 19, 2019 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry, Poetry » Themes & motifs » General
Her poetry, explicitly erotic and passionate, defines her sensual relationship with the world, such a poet of passion she is, though over time Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke became more thoughtful, paying attention to memory and to the chthonian and heavenly sense of a world that never loses its primeval powers.
Red in Black
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 8,140. Language: English. Published: May 16, 2019 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry, Poetry » Themes & motifs » General
Manolis’ vibrant and radiant poems are infused by a powerful yet subtle music that resonates with the reader who revels for the vitality of the sensuous motion of the language he uses to present images structured in a mixture of Mediterranean and Canadian formats.
Neo-Hellene Poets: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry: 1750-2018
Price: $5.50 USD. Words: 97,940. Language: Canadian English. Published: September 4, 2018 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
The most extensive and most comprehensible anthology of modern Greek poetry in English.
The Medusa Glance
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 11,460. Language: English. Published: November 7, 2017 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
The Medusa Glance is a present-day triptych, a rich and profoundly nuanced contemporary narrative, sensitive to all the immanent and minute shades of reality, aspiring to embrace and incorporate the whole spectrum of lived experience.
The Adventures of SahebaN: Biography of a Relentless Warrior
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 47,520. Language: English. Published: December 29, 2016 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General
In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir, author of The Second Sex, wrote: ‘All oppression creates a state of war, this is no exception.
Kariotakis – Polydouri: The Tragic Love Story
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 16,620. Language: Canadian English. Published: December 29, 2016 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
Kostas Karyotakis and Maria Polydouri, two poets of the 1920s fell deeply in love although they never found happiness in their love. They both died in a tragic way at a young age.
Hear Me Out
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 17,440. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2015 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Female authors
Tzoutzi Mantzourani was born in Athens – Greece, in 1959. She studied French Literature and Language at Pepperdine University Malibu, CA. USA, and worked as a journalist in several Greek newspapers and magazines until 2009. She has published up three poem collections and a book of short stories.
Missa Bestialis
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 11,390. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2015 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » European poetry » French
It was translated in: slovakian, Czech, slovenian, French, Albanian, swedish, english, serbian, Romanian and German. “to Attila F. Balázs, poetry represents a manifestation of the individual’s resistance and the lucid “chronical” of hypothesis (either theatrical prefabricated or genuine) adopted by the one who is caught without his will in the decayed texture of the social game.
Hours of the Stars
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 8,270. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2015 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Themes & motifs » Love
The author, educator, philosopher and poet Dimitris Liantinis, Professor of philosophy in education at the University of Athens until 1998, was born in 1942 in the prefecture of Lakonia.
Images of Absence
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 6,080. Language: English. Published: June 1, 2015 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
In the new book by the Greek poet Manolis Images of Absence the microcosm and the macrocosm both blend into the simple images of everyday life that become a mystery into which the poet delves with willingness and humbleness.
Tasos Livaditis: Selected Poems
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 28,930. Language: English. Published: November 13, 2014 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
For years I’ve prepared myself for that big moment the miracle of the century, on the other hand you have to admit I’m one of a kind in my field — but, God, what happened, who betrayed me, where they found all the proof? The procedure was quick the district attorney to the point, “are you him?” he asked me, “him” I answered is there any worst charge?
Autumn Leaves
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 12,830. Language: English. Published: November 13, 2014 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
Manolis, a prolific poet, possesses a distinctly Mediterranean flavour, as would a poet schooled on Cavafy or Elytis: aromatic, tangy, like freshness of an olive grove in the morning.
Blue
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 5,420. Language: English. Published: August 12, 2014 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Spiritual
Is blue the color of patience? Is this why the sea and the sky turn grey when harmony and patience and the sensuality of emotions are spent? Isn't the sea, ever angry, that moved into your eyes? Can you only swing on its waves? Sweep my fear far away like the carcass of an octopus BLUE!
Ioanna Frangia. Idolaters
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 126,140. Language: English. Published: August 11, 2014 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Ioanna Frangia was born in Peireus and lives in Athens. She worked as a tourist guide and also as a clinical psychologist. Because of her first career she travelled all over Greece and studied in depth the historical path of ancient Greek civilization from the prehistoric times to today.
Purple Haze
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 12,510. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2014 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
Purple Haze purports to describe "nondescript days" but that's just a poetic haze that subtly brings the reader to this poetry's real clarity, which is its ability to pose questions. These poems situate the "I/You" of the lyric's spoken voice in a passionate, sometimes erotic, interrogation of imagination and feeling that is looking for answers.
The Tragic Marriages of Doctor Geneva Song
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 46,390. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2014 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Romance » General
Robert Friedland knows so much about Chinese culture. Reading this novel is like reading the writer’s heart, and entering the world where Chinese women become intertwined with the West. Doctor Geneva Song is clearly destined become one of fiction’s legendary women, but in truth, it is because she is a real woman of flesh and blood and passion.
Wellspring of Love
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 63,150. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2014 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
In this third novel in the Water series, Riedweg quickly draws us into the turbulent world of the Cresswells' adopted daughter, Rachael. Now 16, Rachael yearns for more freedom and excitement than a prairie farm has to offer. While her younger brother is blissfully content tending cows, Rachael is not, preferring instead the company of her wild older cousin.
Humility
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 6,060. Language: English. Published: March 9, 2014 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Eastern European Poetry
Károly’s poetry ranges from the sublime to the ordinary, from the general to the very personal and it is graced with European motifs and imagery: taste of the cosmos beyond the in between water. Poetry entrenched deeply in the European tradition with elements of surrealism, with meditative moods, these poems at sometimes engage the reader deeply and at other times they truly entertain.
Within These Bonds
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 70,160. Language: English. Published: December 9, 2013 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Plays & Screenplays
Will Evelyn be able to find her way to a better life? Or will her hopes be shattered once again when all is not what it seems. In the 1930’s, men carved out their realm on parcels of land on the Alberta frontier. With their wives and families, they coped with poverty, hard work and loneliness.
Cloe and Alexandra
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 8,870. Language: Canadian English. Published: October 7, 2013 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
Cloe and Alexandra are two contemporary Greek Poetesses with passionate voices that work from within today's human condition to describe its pain and pleasure; two voices so similar and yet so different in their expression of the internal. They are two poetesses who try to blend both pain and pleasure into an acceptable value.
Übermensch
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 7,960. Language: English. Published: May 9, 2013 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Eastern European Poetry
In his latest book of poems, Manolis celebrates the “imperfect perfection of the imperfect chaos,” energetic and lucid philosophic meditations on the mysteries of being human. Übermensch is derived from one of Nietzsche’s most challenging and frequently misunderstood concepts, the Superman or Overman.
In Turbulent Times
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 132,550. Language: English. Published: April 21, 2013 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General
Since its inception as a semi-autonomous country within the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland has survived the convulsions of the Civil War, the privations of the Second World War, the abortive IRA campaign of violence in the 1950s, and the student-led agitation for civil rights in the 1960s that led to over thirty years of brutal terror, euphemistically referred to as The Troubles.
Ken Kirkby - Warrior Painter
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 79,930. Language: English. Published: April 10, 2013 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Environmentalists & naturalists, Nonfiction » Biography » Artists, architects, & photographers
KEN KIRKBY—WARRIOR PAINTER is a remarkable biography about a very remarkable man. It is, also, an unusual book about a very unusual man. This is an enlightening story of a very intelligent, artistically endowed, determined and perhaps spiritually guided warrior for the conservation of the land, air and water upon which the continuation of all species, including our own, depends.
Prairie Roots
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 37,560. Language: Canadian English. Published: March 2, 2013 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
This is a story about new beginnings and new life in Saskatchewan, the province that was developed by newcomers and that, in turn, enabled the development of newcomers. The harshness of the climate and the austerity of the land dictated that survival was literally a life and death struggle in the early going.
Nukes on the 49th
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 77,940. Language: Canadian English. Published: March 2, 2013 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Nukes on the 49th is a techno-thriller depicting a struggle of wills between American and Canadian political forces that eventually results in the Canadian Prime Minister deciding to develop nuclear weapons. Two American nuclear accidents on Canadian soil had pushed him over the edge.
Jazz with Ella
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 83,110. Language: English. Published: October 12, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
While on a study tour of the Soviet Union during the austere Brezhnev years, Jennifer, a Canadian student, is swept off her feet by a handsome Soviet man, Volodya. He is a discontented jazz pianist whose idol is singer Ella Fitzgerald–for him the symbol of everything mysterious and musical that can happen only in the west....
George Seferis: Collected Poems
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 35,440. Language: English. Published: October 12, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
"George Seferis-Collected Poems", Libros Libertad, 2012, one of fine finalists in the Greek National Literary Awards Competition in the translation category. The Greek National Literary Awards are the highest level of literary recognition same as the General Governor Awards here in Canada.
The Unquiet Land
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 105,370. Language: English. Published: April 19, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Historical » General
The newly ordained Father Padraig returns to his home village of Corrymore as its new priest. The mission he has set himself in addition to his parochial duties is to save the souls" of the proud, pagan fisherman Finn MacLir and his daughter Caitlin by converting them to Christianity...
Nostos and Algos
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 4,450. Language: English. Published: March 23, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
In Nostos and Algos a mature poet tells a simple story and yet underlying it all is a tension formed by intense, glaring, cutting, gripping and captivating images.
Water in the Wilderness
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 70,620. Language: English. Published: March 5, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Romance » General
Happily married to her beloved Morley, Tyne Cresswell is content in her dual role of farmer's wife and hospital nurse. Then a late night conversation with one of her patients sets in motion a series of heartbreaking events that neither she nor Morley could ever have imagined. But, throughout her darkest nights, Tyne learns that God does, indeed, provide water in the wilderness.
Midnight Embers
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 10,620. Language: English. Published: March 5, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Female authors
This book of sonnets is alive with emotions and vivid imagery borrowed from the many splendoured paintings that light the canyons of the heart.
Vernal Equinox
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 5,750. Language: English. Published: February 25, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Canadian Poetry
What is created in Vernal Equinox goes beyond just passion… this is no Harlequin poetry selection. Instead, the focus is on the feelings of both solitude and space that affection fills. The grace of companionship through difficulties, and the familiar grasp of a hand that soothes after a nightmare.
In the Quiet After Slaughter
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 46,610. Language: English. Published: January 23, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
They chuck bean balls in the Mexican League, join a tour group to the Orient or serve time in a Prairie prison. They nurse divorce wounds on a Caribbean isle, search for a runaway, cultivate a grow-op in the basement...
Poodie James
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 47,380. Language: English. Published: January 23, 2012 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Poodie James uses intelligence, charm and hard work to overcome his handicaps and achieve independence in a place he loves. He cherishes the rugged beauty of his valley and the kindness of the people who live in it. Most of his fellow citizens see him as a character or a curiosity, but the most powerful man in the valley thinks Poodie is a threat.
He Rode Tall
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 67,470. Language: English. Published: December 26, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
He Rode Tall is an inspiring story of hope and possibilities.
Constantine P. Cavafy. Poems
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 29,940. Language: English. Published: December 16, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Spiritual
Cavafy was concise and accurate; so much so that he would work on each of his verses again and again making sure that it was in its final and perfect form before he would mail it to anyone; most of this of course is lost in the translation, as such an element in writing is impossible to replicate in another language...
Skeena
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 76,240. Language: English. Published: December 15, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Skeena is the story of a Muslim Canadian woman spanning thirty years of her life where she explores her changing environments, religious and cultural influences, and intimate relationships...
Arrows
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 68,410. Language: English. Published: December 13, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
How does a monk raised in a monastery deal with naked women and the atrocities of war? In 1566, Spain expands its dominion over the newly discovered territories not yet widely known as America. The many native nations of this new land pose no threat to Spain's superiority, despite the ferocity of their resistance...
Petros Spathis
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 70,010. Language: English. Published: December 13, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Greece, the birthplace of democracy, is in one of its darkest periods. A right wing government known as the Regime of Colonels is terrorizing the Greek populace. Those who dissent from government policy or action go to prison – or simply disappear...
The Qliphoth
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 131,490. Language: English. Published: December 12, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
This unique fusion of occultural fantasy and speculative fiction evokes a subversive transmutation of everyday life, in which Qabalistic magick elides with quantum physics to create a fissile reality – a voyage into dangerous zones...
Yannis Ritsos. Poems. Selected Books
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 86,320. Language: English. Published: December 9, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Poetry » Spiritual
Yannis Ritsos was born in Monemvasia, Greece, May 1, 1909 as a cadet of a noble family of landowners, but his youth is marked by devastation in his family: economic ruin, the premature death of his mother and eldest brother, and the internment of his father, who also suffered bouts of mental unrest, all of which ultimately affected Ritsos’ outlook.
Ken Kirkby. A Painter’s Quest for Canada
You set the price! Words: 122,040. Language: English. Published: December 4, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography » Artists
When Ken Kirkby unveiled his painting, Isumataq in Parliament on March 28, 1992, he had to make do with a 25-foot model and the first four panels of the painting itself. The original, at 152' long and 12' high would not fit into the building. But even the model brought tears to the eyes of the 301 members of Parliament and senators gathered there.
The Second Wedding of Doctor Geneva Song
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 47,190. Language: English. Published: November 15, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Doctor Geneva Song's Chinese wedding ceremony is traditional, but she marries outside of her race and culture. This ancient ritual sets in motion a fateful journey from the light to the dark for Geneva, her Spirit Sister, and the men who love them.
The Circle
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 117,140. Language: English. Published: November 13, 2011 by Libros Libertad Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
Circle is a political intrigue story that reflects recent world events and their aftermath. The characters are caught between circumstances of their cultures and politics of the times, players who are not what they portray: naïve and cunning, loyal and duplicitous, sentimental and appetite driven.

Books

Caressing Myths
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 7,130. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2015 . Categories: Poetry » Ancient Poetry
Dina Georgantopoulos was born in Vrahati, Corinth. She studied at the Law School of Athens. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines on line and in paper form. “Caressing Myths” is her first poetry book outside Greece.

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