Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drew’s stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable families–one Kurdish, one American–and the sacrifice and love that bind them together. In a small town outside Istanbul,Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, Nilüfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old son’s coming-of-age ceremony. Their headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter, İrem, resents the attention her brother, Ismail, receives from their parents. For her, there was no such festive observance–only the wrapping of her head in a dark scarf and strict rules that keep her hidden away from boys and her friends. But even before the night of the celebration, İrem has started to change, to the dismay of her Kurdish father. What Sinan doesn’t know is that much of her transformation is due to her secret relationship with their neighbor, Dylan, the seventeen-year-old American son of expatriate teachers. İrem sees Dylan as the gateway to a new life, one that will free her from the confines of conservative Islam. Yet the young man’s presence and Sinan’s growing awareness of their relationship affirms Sinan’s wish to move his family to the safety of his old village, a place where his children would be sheltered from the cosmopolitan temptations of Istanbul, and where, as the civil war in the south wanes, he hopes to raise his children in the Kurdish tradition. But when a massive earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the Basioglu family is faced with greater challenges. Losing everything, they are forced to forage for themselves, living as refugees in their own country. And their survival becomes dependent on their American neighbors, to whom they are unnervingly indebted. As love develops between İrem and Dylan, Sinan makes a series of increasingly dangerous decisions that push him toward a betrayal that will change everyone’s lives forever. The deep bonds among father, son, and daughter; the tension between honoring tradition and embracing personal freedom; the conflict between cultures and faiths; the regrets of age and the passions of youth–these are the timeless themes Alan Drew weaves into a brilliant fiction debut. From the Hardcover edition.

Gardens of Water

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

A Turkey for Thanksgiving 

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

California

From the universally acclaimed author of "Snow" and "My Name Is Red" comes his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize. A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and the strange allure of collecting, this is Pamuk's greatest achievement to date.

The Museum of Innocence

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#hardcover #fiction #istanbul #comingofage #turkey #warstories #translated #firstedition

Arizona

From an award-winning Turkish novelist comes a powerful English-language debut about a girl's coming of age amid violent unrest--and her unexpected escape. A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul's centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork's nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story, and the stories of those around her, begins to unfold. Then, unexpectedly, comes a soul mate with a shared destiny. A lonely boy working at a nearby hotel looks up and falls in love. The two share stories of the fates of their families, of a changing city, and of their political awakenings in the Gezi Park protests. Together, they navigate their histories of love and loss, set against a backdrop of societal tension leading up to the tragic bombing that marked a turn in Turkey's democracy--and sent a young girl fleeing into the trees. Narrated by one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction--as full of audacious humor and irony as she is of rage and grief--this unsparing and poetic novel of political madness, precarious dreams, and the will to survive brilliantly captures a girl's road to defiance in a world turned upside down, in which it is only from the treetops that she can find a grip on reality--and the promise of hope.

The Girl in the Tree

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#hardcover #cookbook #cooking #recipes #chicken #turkey #poultry

This book is in excellent condition with no wear to the spine or binding. Pages are clean and unmarked. Front and back covers are solid and unscuffed, price sticker on back cover. Printed in 1986, 144pp.

Minnesota

Lists a variety of recipes concerning the preparation of chicken. Includes an analysis of nutrients contained in each serving and calorie counts.

Fresh Ways with Poultry

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Former library book #hardcover #mystery #murder #Turkey

Carole and Jude's Turkish holiday takes a murderous turn in the new Fethering mysteryCarole Seddon has never enjoyed holidays much. Nevertheless, she has allowed herself to be persuaded by her friend Jude to accept a fortnight's free accommodation at a luxurious Turkish villa owned by Jude's property developer friend Barney Willingdon. But from the outset the holiday is marred by a series of menacing incidents: threatening messages daubed on the villa walls; and their host being accosted by a knife-wielding man at a local restaurant. As Carole and Jude launch into what they do best - investigating - it becomes clear that Barney Willingdon has made plenty of enemies, with his ruthless business deals and complicated love life. Matters come to a head when Carole's sightseeing trip to nearby Pinara is curtailed by the discovery of a body in one of the ancient Lycian tombs. And what really did happen to Barney's first wife, Zoe?

The Tomb in Turkey

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

An unlikely trio makes their own kind of family in this warmhearted easy reader that's just in time for Thanksgiving. Holiday House Readers are created for children just beginning to read. They feature large type, simple vocabulary, and short, manageable chapters. Level 2 books are intended for children in first and second grades.

Turkeys Together

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Alev Lytle Croutier

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

The Black Tulip

While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.

Leyla

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#hardcover #orhanpamuk Nice clean hardcover edition. Beautiful dust jacket. #turkey

Florida

From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel--part murder mystery, part love story--set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.

When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed, and no one in the elite circle can know the full scope or nature of the project.
Panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears, and the Sultan demands answers within three days. The only clue to the mystery--or crime?--lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Has an avenging angel discovered the blasphemous work? Or is a jealous contender for the hand of Enishte's ravishing daughter, the incomparable Shekure, somehow to blame?

Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red is at once a fantasy and a philosophical puzzle, a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex, and power.

My Name Is Red

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#hardcover #Armenian #geneology #Turkey #Cypess

Alabama

A Novel

Katerina inherits a scented, wooden spice box after her grandmother Mariam dies. It contains letters and a diary, written in Armenian. As she pieces together her family story, Katerina learns that Mariam's childhood was shattered by the Armenian tragedy of 1915.

Mariam was exiled from her home in Turkey and separated from her beloved brother, Gabriel, her life marred by grief and the loss of her first love. Dissatisfied and restless, Katerina tries to find resolution in her own life as she completes Mariam's story - on a journey that takes her across Cyprus and then half a world away to New York.

Miracles, it seems, can happen--for those trapped by the past, and for Katerina herself.

The Spice Box Letters

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#hardcover #fiction #turkey #faith #historicalfiction #love #spiritual

She is called Nurdane, the famed weaver of Mavisu. From her remote mountain village in southwestern Turkey, she creates dowries for young brides: dazzling rugs that are marvels of shape and color, texture and light. For her unique rugs possess remarkable healing qualities that have inspired local legend. But it is her hands that are at the heart of her mystery. An artist's hands. A virgin's hands.

An extraordinary series of events drives Nurdane to question the limitations of her faith and culture as she is caught between the cost of remaining pure in body and spirit...or risking everything for the chance to live a loving life. Shimmering with the history and lore of Turkish culture and tradition, this is a richly woven, brilliantly hued novel about a young woman who travels from innocence to knowledge, from loneliness to love. In this luminous debut, The Virgin's Knotheralds the arrival of a gifted new voice in literary fiction.

The Virgin's Knot

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A lawyer from the London finance house of "Single & Single" is shot dead on a Turkish hillside by people with whom he thought he was in business. A children's magician in the English countryside is asked by his bank to explain the unsolicited arrival of more than five million pounds sterling in his young daughter's modest trust. A freighter bound for Liverpool is boarded by Russian coast guards in the Black Sea. The celebrated London merchant venturer "Tiger" Single disappears into thin air.

In "Single & Single" the writer who both epitomizes and transcends the novel of espionage opens with a haunting set piece, then establishes a sequence of events whose connections are mysterious, complex and compelling. This is a story of corrupt liaisons between criminal elements in the new Russian states and the world of legitimate finance in the West. Le Carre's finest novel in years, it is also an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son-in-law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son.

This is territory le Carre knows better

Single and Single

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#unique #turkey #artistcolony #1980s #harrowing 

Georgia

The arrival of haunted seventeen-year-old artist Fullerton shatters the hermetic peace at one of the world's most exclusive artist colonies, prompting Scottish painter Knell to search for answers and confront the realities of her own past--

The Ecliptic

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Michael David Lukas

Virginia

Set in the heart of the exotic Ottoman Empire during the first years of its chaotic decline, Michael David Lukas' elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel follows a gifted young girl who dares to charm a sultan--and change the course of history, for the empire and the world. An enthralling literary adventure, perfect for readers entranced by the mixture of historical fiction and magical realism in Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red, or Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lukas' evocative tale of prophesy, intrigue, and courage unfolds with the subtlety of a Turkish mosaic and the powerful majesty of an epic for the ages.  



The Oracle of Stamboul

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Connecticut

When they learn that Farmer Mack Nuggett is going to chop up his turkeys for Thanksgiving, eight children take the turkeys home with them.

'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

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Turkey

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#paperback #movie #biography #ww2 #middleeast #1914 #turkey

Tennessee

"[A] beguiling biography. . . . Korda is at his best describing, after the heroics in the desert, the touching antiheroics of Lawrence's later life." -- New York Times Book Review

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editor's Choice--the definitive biography of the legendary British soldier, scholar and adventurer who became a myth even in his lifetime, T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia."

From Michael Korda, author of the New York Times bestselling Eisenhower biography Ike and the captivating Battle of Britain book With Wings Like Eagles, comes the critically-acclaimed definitive biography of T. E. Lawrence--the legendary British soldier, strategist, scholar, and adventurer whose exploits as "Lawrence of Arabia" created a legacy of mythic proportions in his own lifetime. Many know T.E. Lawrence from David Lean's Oscar-winning 1962 biopic--based, itself, upon Lawrence's autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom--but in the tradition of modern biographers like John Meacham, David McCullough, and Barbara Leaming, Michael Korda's penetrating new examination reveals new depth and character in the twentieth century's quintessential English hero.

Hero - The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

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Stephen Kinzer

Iran, Turkey, and America's Future

The bestselling author of Overthrow offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America's strategic partnerships in the Middle East What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the twenty-first century: Turkey and Iran. Besides proposing this new "power triangle," Kinzer also recommends that the United States reshape relations with its two traditional Middle East allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia. This book provides a penetrating, timely critique of America's approach to the world's most volatile region, and offers a startling alternative. Kinzer is a master storyteller with an eye for grand characters and illuminating historical detail. In this book he introduces us to larger-than-life figures, like a Nebraska schoolteacher who became a martyr to democracy in Iran, a Turkish radical who transformed his country and Islam forever, and a colorful parade of princes, politicians, women of the world, spies, oppressors, liberators, and dreamers. Kinzer's provocative new view of the Middle East is the rare book that will richly entertain while moving a vital policy debate beyond the stale alternatives of the last fifty years.

Reset

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Ex library copy with the usual markings. Solid copy with no other writing. Small spill on last few pages of book. Please see photos. #nonfiction #autobiography #travel #smuggling #Turkey #prison #escape #hardcover (Shelf 2F)

New Jersey

After buying some souveniers in Turkey, the author was unjustly accused of attempting to smuggle ancient artifacts out of the country and endured imprisonment until she eventually made a daring escape

Never Pass This Way Again

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#hardcover #vintage #firstprinting #fairytales #turkey

Turkish Fairy Tales (First Printing)

Moris Farhi

This 391 page hardback book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, there are no dog eared pages, there is no writing in the book. The outside does have some spots of what looks to have been a liquid (see pictures), but that is the only major flaw I see. 

Arkansas

A series of thirteen interconnected stories follows the experiences of a circle of young friends who come of age in the increasingly politicized nation of Turkey before, during, and after World War II, from a psychic girl who foresees the Holocaust, to a Jewish boy who sets off for occupied Greece to rescue his family, to a boy who struggles to save a national poet.

Young Turk

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#JudyMoody #kids #children #Thanksgiving #turkey #paperback 

The Wishbone Wish

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Gardens of Water is an enthralling story of two families, and two faiths, in Turkey at the time of the cataclysm of 1999. It tells of Sinan, whose daughter, Irem, dreams of escaping the confines of her family and the duties of a devout Muslim woman. She sees in Dylan, an American boy and her upstairs neighbor, the enticing promise of another life. But then a massive earthquake forces Sinan and his family to live as refugees in their own country and leads to a dangerous intimacy with their American neighbors, as Irem and Dylan fall in love. When Sinan finds himself entangled in a series of increasingly dangerous decisions, he will be pushed toward a final betrayal that will change everyone's lives forever. Powerful and beautifully written, Alan Drew's Gardens of Water marks the debut of a brilliant new American writer.

#paperback #thefourhumors #minaseckin #turkey #istanbul #novel 

This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, seeks treatment for a stubborn headache and grows obsessed with a centuries-old theory of medicine.
 
"[A] humane and refreshingly astringent novel." --Lauren LeBlanc, The New York Times Book Review


Twenty-year-old Sibel thought she had concrete plans for the summer. She would care for her grandmother in Istanbul, visit her father's grave, and study for the MCAT. Instead, she finds herself watching Turkish soap operas and self-diagnosing her own possible chronic illness with the four humors theory of ancient medicine.
 
Also on Sibel's mind: her blond American boyfriend who accompanies her to Turkey; her energetic but distraught younger sister; and her devoted grandmother, who, Sibel comes to learn, carries a harrowing secret.
 
Delving into her family's history, the narrative weaves through periods of political unrest in Turkey, from military coups to the Gezi Park protests. Told with pathos and humor, Sibel's search for strange and unusual cures is disrupted as she begins to see how she might heal herself through the care of others, including her own family and its long-fractured relationships.

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Alan Drew

Gardens of Water

Eve Bunting

A Turkey for Thanksgiving

Orhan Pamuk; Maureen Freely (Translator)

The Museum of Innocence

Mark David Wyers (Translator)

The Girl in the Tree

Time-Life Books Editors (Contribution by)

Fresh Ways with Poultry

Simon Brett

The Tomb in Turkey

Carol Wallace; Jaqueline Rogers (Illustrator); Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)

Turkeys Together

Alev Lytle Croutier

Leyla

Orhan Pamuk; Erdag M. Göknar (Translator)

My Name Is Red

Eve Makis

The Spice Box Letters

Holly Payne

The Virgin's Knot

John Le Carré

Single and Single

Benjamin Wood

The Ecliptic

Michael David Lukas

The Oracle of Stamboul

Dav Pilkey (Illustrator)

'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

Suzanne Swan (Contribution by)

Turkey

Michael Korda

Hero - The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Stephen Kinzer

Reset

Gene LePere

Never Pass This Way Again

Eleanor Brockett

Turkish Fairy Tales (First Printing)

Moris Farhi

Young Turk

Megan McDonald and Peter H. Reynolds

The Wishbone Wish

Alan Drew

Gardens of Water

Mina Seckin

The Four Humors