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  The Janissary Tree: A Novel

  by Jason Goodwin

  When Jason Goodwin explored the Ottoman Empire in Lords of the Horizons , The New York Times Book Review hailed it as “a work of dazzling beauty…the rare coming together of historical scholarship…with luminous writing.” Now he returns to Istanbul, with a delicious mystery— The Janissary Tree . It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the Sultan announces... (more)
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  Six for Gold (John the Eunuch Mysteries)

  by Mary Reed, Eric Mayer

  Why are sheep in a remote Egyptian village cutting their own throats?...That's the mystery Emperor Justinian in-explicably sends his Lord Chamberlain John the Eunuch to solve, at the very time John desperately needs to clear himself of accusations he murdered a senator in the Hippodrome. Mehenopolis, a pilgrim destination thanks to its ancient shrine to a snake deity as well as the home of the late sheep, is... (more)
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  Silk Dreams

  by Diana Groe

  In a strange land of flashing swords and swirling silks, spicy aromas and hot breezes that feel like a lover's breath, Valdis is utterly lost. Constantinople is so vastly different from her homeland in Scandinavia. And the harem she's forced to enter so very treacherous. Her family cast her away for seeing portents of the future, and now her visions are turning even more ominous: They foretell the... (more)