{"id":367661,"date":"2026-10-08T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367661\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:40:26","slug":"kyrkostas-releases-second-book-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367661\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrkostas Releases Second Book &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-10-07\/14p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-213725\" class=\"wp-image-213725 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/14p1-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a0\" width=\"215\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-213725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Greek American author Maria Lynn Kyrkostas an\u00adnounces the Kindle release of her second book, Agape Hearts of Faith, published through Agape Heritage Press. Following her debut cookbook and family memoir, Agape Cooking with Love: A Greek American Family Heritage Cookbook, Kyrkostas turns her attention to helping chil\u00addren navigate modern-day challenges through faith, kind\u00adness, compassion and discern\u00adment.<\/p>\n<p> Drawing on her Greek Or\u00adthodox heritage, Agape Hearts of Faith introduces young readers to Christian teachings and the lives of saints, encour\u00adaging thoughtful choices in friendships, disagreements and everyday interactions. The book is designed to spark con\u00adversations among children, parents, grandparents, and teachers. \u201cChrist conscious\u00adness is indeed inside each of us,\u201d says Kyrkostas. \u201cSometimes we simply need a gentle reminder to recognize it and use it in our everyday lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyrkostas is a New York-based Greek American author, family historian, entrepre\u00adneur, new grandmother and founder of Agape Heritage Press. Her writing celebrates family heritage, Christian faith and the importance of passing meaningful traditions to future generations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Greek American author Maria Lynn Kyrkostas an\u00adnounces the Kindle release of her second book, Agape Hearts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-367661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}