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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"At once a scholar's homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist....A book I could not put down."
—Ann Patchett
"Mary Renault lives again!" declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller's thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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 acquire the item as well.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Indie Next Pick
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
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...
The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul.
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...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
CNN reporter Dulcey Moore, while documenting the excavation of a magnificent golden goddess statue in the fallen city of Zeugma, Turkey, must navigate the power struggles and cultural clashes that arise as the dig progresses. But as tensions mount outside and inside the excavation camp, she struggles to distinguish friends from enemies and risks her life to preserve her most precious treasures.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria. Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this brilliant debut thriller, reminiscent of the works of John le Carre and Olen Steinhauer and infused with the authenticity of the author's travels, a young American State Department intern based in Turkey becomes 'the woman who knows too much' and is marked for death.
Penny Kessler, an intern at the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, wakes up in a hospital on the morning of July 5th to find herself at the center of an international crisis. The...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 brother's fate.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Married at a tender age to the Spartan king Menelaus, the beautiful Helen bears him a daughter and anticipates a passionless marriage before falling in love with the Trojan prince Paris, with whom she flees to Troy, with devastating consequences.
10) Black powder war
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Hitler’s reign of terror begins to loom large over Germany, Gerhard and Elsa Schliemann—like other German Jews—must flee with their children in search of sanctuary. But life elsewhere in Europe offers few opportunities for medical professor Gerhard and his fellow scientists. Then they discover an unexpected haven in Turkey, where universities and hospitals welcome them as valuable assets. But despite embracing their adopted land, personal...
13) The tournament
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Temple and The Great Zoo of China comes a gripping historical thriller featuring a young Queen Elizabeth I thrust into a web of treachery, power, and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire. The year is 1546, and Suleiman the Magnificent, the powerful and feared Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issues an invitation to every king in Europe: You are invited to send your finest player to compete in a chess...
14) The red room
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 understandably thrown when David "Sarge" Dulwich, his...
15) Silver angel
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Description
Chantelle Burke, a proud, young Englishwoman, abducted and sold into slavery, is afraid her life is over when she becomes the newest addition to the Pasha's harem. Though she vows never to call him 'master', her resolve weakens within the silken splendor of his chambers, when she meets the handsome desert chieftain for the first time. And, what secret does the Pasha hide beneath his exotic eastern garb?
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