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2) Snow
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Language
English
Description
After years of lonely political exile, poet Ka returns to Turkey and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear their headscarves.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Scholarly eighteen-year-old Paula and her merchant father journey from Transylvania to Istanbul to buy an ancient pagan artifact rumored to be charmed, but others, including a handsome Portuguese pirate and an envoy from the magical Wildwood, want to aquire the item as well.
4) Black amber
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Anabel Radburn placed a desperate overseas phone call to her sister Tracy saying she was in great danger, Tracy chalked it up to Anabel's dramatic flair. Until the next day when Anabel's body is pulled from the Bosporus in Istanbul. Racked with guilt for not responding immediately, Tracy travels to Turkey where she keeps her identity secret while trying to piece together the broken threads of Anabel's life. Despite what Anabel's husband says,...
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Series
Temeraire volume 3
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2007.
Language
English
Description
Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Captain Lawrence and Temeraire his dragon must escort them from Istanbul back to England.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
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Description
'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away ...' Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Tequila Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory - growing up with her father and his two wives in...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
An American undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define the entire post-war era. A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community...
11) The red room
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
"John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable and often incompatible duo, team up again, this time in the exotic "city between two worlds," Istanbul. What's it like to see yourself in a picture you never knew was taken? John Knox is an expert at surveillance and delicate, international dealings. So he is understandably thrown when David "Sarge" Dulwich, his contact at Rutherford Risk, hands him a photo of a transaction he recently facilitated in the...
Author
Series
Investigator Yashim volume 3
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Sent to investigate rumors that a stolen art masterpiece has resurfaced in Venice, eunuch detective Yashim delegates negotiations for the work's return to Polish ambassador Palewski, in an unexpectedly dangerous case with ties to the alluring Contessa d'Aspi d'Istria.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, and then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"The story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband. Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer, and they have a young son together, William. But when she decides to leave her marriage and return home to the U.S., with William and her photographer lover, Murat determines to take a stand. He enlists the help of an American diplomat to prevent...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
They were the most unlikely of friends. Three young women with utterly different worldviews. They were the Sinner, the Believer, and the Confused. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old Polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a part...
Author
Publisher
Viking Penguin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In a novel overflows with a kitchen sink's worth of zany characters, women are front and center: Asya Kazanci, an angst-ridden 19-year-old Istanbulite is the bastard of the title; her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha (who intended to have an abortion), has raised Asya among three generations of complicated and colorful female relations (including religious clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye). The Kazanci men either die...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is working on a new novel set in Turkey and Nunu tells him about...
Author
Series
Investigator Yashim volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a French archaeologist who has come to Istanbul looking for ancient Greek artifacts turns up dead, Yashim, an intelligence agent and a eunuch, becomes the main suspect and finds himself investigating a secret society and exploring the city's ancientwaterworks to clear his name.
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