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Dragons Fiction False personation Fiction FICTION / Action & Adventure FICTION / Thrillers Great Britain. Royal Navy Officers Fiction II, Emperor of the East Basil ca. 958-1025 Fiction Istanbul (Turkey) Fiction Missing persons Fiction Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Fiction Orphans FictionKanon, Joseph.
Summary: "From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Stardust, The Good German, and Los Alamos--a gripping tale of an American undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul who descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define theentire post-war era. A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANWhite, Jenny B. (Jenny Barbara)
Summary: "The naked body of an Englishwoman washes up in Ottoman Istanbul wearing a pendant with the sultan's seal. This debut novel captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The murder of an English governess for the royal harem stirs up a crisis at the palace and at the British embassy. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIShafak, Elif
Summary: Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAPerry, Anne.
Summary: Arriving in the ancient Byzantine city in the year 1273, Anna Zarides has only one mission: to prove the innocence of her twin brother, Justinian, who has been exiled to the desert for conspiring to kill Bessarion, a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves freely about in society, using her skills as a physician to manoeuver close to the key players involved in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2010Sava, Ayegül
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAVKostova, Elizabeth.
Summary: A young woman discovers an ancient book and a cache of old letters in her father's library, and thus begins her adventurous quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, a search that will span continents and generations, and a confrontation with the darkest powers of evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOSPearson, Ridley.
Summary: "In the newest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAPamuk, Orhan
Summary: Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rüya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International/Vintage Books 2006
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Summary: Two young boys who grew up in a Turkish orphanage must rely on each other in order to survive the mean streets of Istanbul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAGNovik, Naomi.
Summary: In the wake of their adventure in China, Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his dragon, Temeraire, are sent on a mission to protect three valuable dragon eggs on a trip back to England from the Ottoman Empire, but the vengeful Chinese dragon Lien allies herself with Napoleon to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2006
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Summary: The early years of the reign of Basil II were racked by civil war and his wife's murderous intrigue. When the young son of an Irish slave catches the eye of the Emperor's wife, jealousy and anger come near to bringing down the High City itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009