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The Historian

The Historian more books like this

by Elizabeth Kostova

The specter of the supernatural infuses this academic thriller, the debut of author Elizabeth Kostova. In 1972 Amsterdam, a sheltered, motherless teenager stumbles across an ancient book imprinted with a dragon and stuffed with 40-year-old, mysteriously addressed letters. Gradually, her father reveals the link between the book and various attempts ...

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Snow

Snow more books like this

by Orhan Pamuk

A burned-out Turkish writer has spent many years in Germany as a political exile, resigned to a life of dreary bleakness. Then his mother dies, and he returns home to Istanbul, where a series of inexplicable events in a nearby town provoke his curiosity. Why are young Islamic girls committing suicide? And what is the real story behind the military ...

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My name is Red

My name is Red more books like this

by Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar (Translator)

A Sultan secretly commissions a cadre of artists to create a great book. But any work of art--an affront to Islam--is dangerous. "My Name Is Red" is a murder mystery played amidst the perils of religious repression. A "New York Times" Notable Book.

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Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings more books like this

by Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières's epic novel encompasses the history of Turkey from the late 19th century to the end of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the 1920s. Narrated by a variety of voices (including a potter, a beautiful young woman in love with a goatherd, and a man whose adulterous wife is stoned to death), BIRDS WITHOUT ...

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The Cat Who Talked Turkey

The Cat Who Talked Turkey more books like this

by Lilian Jackson Braun

In Lilian Jackson Braun's 26th "Cat Who" novel, the intrepid Koko and her pal Yum Yum are still helping Jim Owilleran solve crimes after nearly 40 years on the job. This time, the plot involves a town bicentennial, a somewhat bizarre radio show, and a flock of wild turkeys. As always, the cats save the day, and the comic and fanciful details of ...

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Byzantium: The Decline and Fall

Byzantium: The Decline and Fall more books like this

by John Julius Norwich

In this, the third and final volume of his brilliant trilogy that began with Byzantium: The Early Centuries and continued with Byzantium: The Apogee, Norwich provides a spellbinding account of the city's fall--a story whose climax is worthy of Homer himself. of photos.

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Towers of Trebizond

Towers of Trebizond more books like this

by Rose Macaulay

In Rose Macaulay's zanily brilliant last novel, a group of British eccentrics travel to Turkey on a missionary expedition to convert the Muslims. Chief among them is the narrator Laurie's Aunt Dot, whose wacky zeal, unsurprisingly, fails to inspire one single conversion. Macaulay's book not only tells its satirical story, it also provides a ...

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Midnight express more books like this

by Billy Hayes

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Enormous Room

Enormous Room more books like this

by E E Cummings

This prose work is Cummings's account of the three months he spent in a French detention camp during World War I, in which he served as an ambulance driver.

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Gallipoli

Gallipoli more books like this

by Alan Moorehead

When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies ...

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The black book.

The black book. more books like this

by Orhan Pamuk

Galip is a lawyer in Istanbul. When his wife Rüya disappears, along with her half-brother Jelal (a journalist with a murky political past), Galip makes a desperate attempt to trace her. Alongside the action-filled narrative of Galip's story are Jelal's newspaper columns which provide the book with ideas about self, identity, and illusion.

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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire more books like this

by Jason Goodwin

This history of the Ottoman Empire charts its rise in Asia Minor in the 13th century, its golden age under Suleyman I, its gradual decline, and its final collapse in 1918. The empire included parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This book was a New York Times Notable Book for 1999.

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The Secret on Ararat more books like this

by Dr. Tim LaHaye

THE SECRET ON ARARAT is the second installment in the Babylon Rising series, which concerns the adventures of Michael Murphy, an Indiana Jones-like figure who quests for physical evidence of the events recounted in the Bible. In this volume, the evangelical Christian and biblical archaeologist travels to Mount Ararat to search for the remains of ...

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To Love Again more books like this

by Bertrice Small

In Britain, 453 A.D., beautiful and defiant Cailin possesses the pride of her Celtic-born mother, though she has been reared amid her Roman father's wealth and privilege. When her family is massacred, she marries a Saxon warrior, but happiness is short lived--she is kidnapped and sold as a slave in Byzantium. Legendary for her sensual novels of ...

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The song of Troy more books like this

by Colleen McCullough

Leaving the Australian settings of THE THORN BIRDS and MORGAN'S RUN behind, McCullough ventures into new fictional territory in this epic novel set in classical Greece.

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Istanbul: Memories and the City more books like this

by Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (Translator)

Weaving history with observations of people, places, and art, Pamuk shows Istanbul's transformation from the seat of faded imperial glory to the capital of a modern nation at the dizzying crossroads of East and West.

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Apostle: A Life of Paul more books like this

by John Pollock

Master storyteller John Pollock makes Paul and his amazing story freshly alive, so that you can know the greatest apostle much as Luke and Timothy did as they traveled with him.

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The Greek islands more books like this

by Marc Dubin (Consultant editor)

Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know.

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Forty Days of Musa Dagh more books like this

by Franz Werfel

This stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their ...

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Paul, Apostle of the Heart Set Free more books like this

by Frederick Fyvie Bruce

This is a biography of Paul by one of the foremost Pauline scholars of our time. While Bruce's primary concern is to portray the life of the apostle Paul, he also examines the main themes of Paul's thought, set in their historical background and illustrated from his letters.

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Revolt in the Desert more books like this

by T E Lawrence

An epic account of the Great War in the Middle East T. E. Lawrence-Lawrence of Arabia-needs no introduction. His renowned work about his experiences with King Feisal's Arab army as it fought its campaign to Damascus-The Seven Pillars of Wisdom-has become a classic of twentieth century English literature. Revolt in the Desert is not a work of ...

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Turkey more books like this

by DK Publishing (Creator), Suzanne Swan

This "Eyewitness Travel Guide to Turkey" is one of the most colorful and comprehensive guides on the market. With beautiful commissioned photos and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the mountains, countryside, and landscape, this amazing travel book shows what others only tell.

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A short history of Byzantium more books like this

by John Julius Norwich

Published to coincide with a major exhibition on Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the spring of 1997, "Byzantium" tells the dramatic story of Byzantium, from its beginnings in A.D. 330, providing readers with a spirited, gripping, and original account of a great lost civilization and its magnificent artistic heritage. in full color.

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Helen of Troy more books like this

by Margaret George

From the bestselling author of "Autobiography of Henry VIII, Memoirs of Cleopatra," and "Mary, Called Magdalene," among others, comes a lush, seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face "launched a thousand ships," the mythic woman who was Helen of Troy.

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The Janissary Tree more books like this

by Jason Goodwin

The author of "Lords of the Horizons," a history of the Ottoman Empire, makes a welcome shift to fiction with the first book in an impressive new mystery series set in the empire's declining decades.

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