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Sessiz ev
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Orhan Pamuk |
In a crumbling mansion in a gentrified former fishing village on the Turkish coast, the widow Fatma awaits the annual visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated historian; his sensitive leftist … |
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Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh
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Franz Werfel |
**The Forty Days of Musa Dagh** (German: *Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh*) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of … |
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Rogue Forces
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Dale Brown |
The clash of civilizations will be won . . . by thte highest bidderWhat happens when America's most lethal military contractor becomes uncontrollably powerful? His election promised a new day for Ame… |
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The young man in the gray suit
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A. J. Hacikyan |
It is the mid-1950s, four decades after the Armenian genocide. Nour Kardam, an affluent young Turkish lawyer, gets news of his fathers sudden death and soon uncovers secrets from his familys pasthis … |
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Seraglio
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Janet Wallach |
Based on the true story of Empress Josephine's cousin, "Seraglio" is a novel of a girl, kidnapped at age 13, who rose through the ranks of the Turkish Sultan's harem to become the most powerful woman… |
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The Xanadu Adventure (Vesper Holly #6)
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Lloyd Alexander |
Vesper and her friends are sailing off to the newly discovered archeological site of Troy. But danger is close behind—and the party is tricked and imprisoned in a fabulous palace called Xanadu. Xanad… |
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Captain
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Sam Angus |
Billy is afraid when he learns that his platoon is sailing to Gallipoli. Aboard ship, he meets a young stowaway and his donkey, and together, they teach Billy about bravery and loyalty. The plot cont… |
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Endgame
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Ahmet Altan |
'I don't remember pulling the trigger; I only heard the gunshot. And then I saw a mouth opening, as if to speak, a face contorted, one hand in the air. And then a body falling.' A man retires to a su… |
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The lion of Mistra
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James Heneage |
Bayezid, leader of the Ottomans, is dead; his heirs, Suleyman and Mehmed, are at war with each other; and the dread Tamerlane, who was on the brink of invading China, is also dead. Luke is now pushed… |
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Long road to Baghdad
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Catrin Collier |
Mesopotamia, 1914: in the Middle East tension is escalating between the British and the Arabs. Misfit Lieutenant Harry Downe is sent to negotiate a treaty with a renegade Bedouin Sheikh, Ibn Shalan, … |
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Like Water on Stone
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Dana Walrath |
Inspired by a true story, this relates the tale of siblings Sosi, Shahen, and Mariam who survive the Armenian genocide of 1915 by escaping from Turkey alone over the mountains. |
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Burning Orchards
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Gurgen Mahari |
I have read some of this book , according to a friend who translated it to English , the details in this book are true and accurate , . |
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The boat
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Clara Salaman |
A young couple on the trip of a lifetime become trapped in a nightmare when they board a stranger's boat. Johnny and his new bride Clem have arrived in Turkey for a year's honeymoon. Young and blissf… |
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The reluctant Messiah
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Salamon Eskinazi |
"The Reluctant Messiah is based on true historical accounts of the life of Sabetay Sevi, a seventeenth-century Hebrew mystic who managed to stir up in the Balkans and the Holy Land a messianic euphor… |
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Perihan's promise, Turkish relatives, and the dirty old Imam
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Helen Chetin |
Fourteen-year-old Perihan's journal reflects her growing maturity as she records her impressions of her Turkish relatives and their fascinating way of life. |
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Castaway from Rhodes
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Jacqueline Cervon |
Washed up on Turkish shores after a storm, a Greek boy becomes friends with a Turkish boy despite the hostilities between their two countries. |
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The Fall of Troy
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Peter Ackroyd |
Heinrich Obermann, a celebrated German archaeologist, has uncovered the ancient ruins of Troy on a Turkish hillside. He fervently believes that his discovery will prove that the heroes of the Iliad, … |
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Over the river
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Derek Anderson |
Presents the words to the popular Thanksgiving song, with illustrations of a turkey family going to Grandma and Grandpa Turkey's house, pursued by a boy and a dog who are hunting for Thanksgiving din… |
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Dawn of empire
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Sam Barone |
The leader of a band of marauding barbarians, Thutmose-sin is a warrior gifted by the gods with extraordinary perception and cunning. To survive, he and his people plunder and pillage, killing and en… |
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Embracing the Mountains
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Suleyman Saglam |
311 pages ; 22 cm |
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