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Benim Adım Kırmızı
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Orhan Pamuk |
My Name Is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of… |
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The Commodore
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Patrick O'Brian |
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All twenty books are being re-issued by Harper Perennial with stunning new … |
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Il cimitero di Praga
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Umberto Eco |
"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In… |
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Battle Flag
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Bernard Cornwell |
Distinguished at the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck's career is jeopardized once again by the suspicion and hostility of his brigade commander, General Washington Faulcon… |
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The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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Ernest J. Gaines |
"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960's. In this wo… |
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Le roman du masque de fer
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Alexandre Dumas |
You are about to hear," said Aramis, "an account which few could now give; for it refers to a secret which they buried with their dead...." So begins the magnificent concluding story of the swashbuck… |
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The heretic’s apprentice
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Edith Pargeter |
This book examines what true piety is. The main character is the apprentice of a man, now dead, who is suddenly accused of having been a heretic.
In this book, Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters), th… |
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La dame d'Abou Simbel
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Christian Jacq |
Saga about ancient Egypt & the powerful struggle between Ramses & his enemies. |
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens |
An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost… |
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The Tender Years
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Janette Oke |
Virginia is a young girl becoming slowly but surly a very beautiful young women. But during her tender years she is involved in conflicts between friends, right and wrong, and wondering what to do du… |
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