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  • The Jinn and the Sword

    A Tale of Mystery, Suspense, and Romance in the Sixteenth Century Court of Suleyman the Magnificent

    by Robert Truss Peacock, Sara Lawrence Cook ...
    "Certain elements of digital artistry and formatting, asdepicted in the hardcover and paperback editions of this book, cannot be replicated in the ebook version due to device limitations."The sixteenth century was rife with turmoil throughout Europe. The Topkapi Palace in Istanbul (Konstantiniyye), the seat of the Ottoman Empire, was not immune to the strife and chaos. The imperial court of ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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  • The Mapmaker's Daughter a novel

    by Katherine Hughes ...
    Narrating the spectacular story of her rise to the pinnacle of imperial power, Queen Mother Nurbanu, on her sickbed, is determined to understand how her bond with the greatest of all Ottoman sultans, Suleiman the Magnificent, shaped her destiny – not only as the wife of his successor but as the appointed enforcer of one of the Empire’s most crucial and shocking laws. Nurbanu spares nothing as she ... Read more

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  • The Islam Quintet

    Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, The Book of Saladin, The Stone Woman, A Sultan in Palermo, and Night of the Golden Butterfly

    by Tariq Ali ...
    Series series The Islam Quintet
    Five nuanced and powerful historical novels depicting the clashes among Muslims, Christians, and Jews from the Crusades to twenty-first-century London.Celebrated British-Pakistani journalist and author Tariq Ali takes a mind-expanding journey through the ages with these five acclaimed works of fiction, available now in one collection.Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree : "Ali captures the humanity and ... Read more

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  • The Twentieth Wife

    by Indu Sundaresan ...
    An impressive fictional portrait of one of the most influential and controversial empresses in India’s history from “a gifted storyteller with an obvious passion for history” (USA TODAY).An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut historical fiction novel tells the captivating story of a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles, and whose love ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Shadow Princess

    A Novel

    by Indu Sundaresan ...
    Critically acclaimed author Indu Sundaresan picks up where she left off in The Twentieth Wife and The Feast of Roses, returning to seventeenth-century India as two princesses struggle for supremacy of their father’s kingdom.Trapped in the shadow of the magnificent tomb their grief-stricken father is building for his beloved deceased wife, the emperor’s daughters compete for everything: control ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra

    The Egyptian Sequence, #3

    by Moyra Caldecott ...
    Series Book 3 - The Egyptian Sequence
    Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life – not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.Daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the fabled Nefertiti, and married at one time to her father, she is forced to marry Tutankhamun by the powerful General Horemheb at a time of bitter political and religious division. Ankhesenamun is the delicate link between scheming factions ... Read more

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  • The Eagle and the Dove

    by Jane Feather ...
    A merciless warlord surrenders himself to the willful woman he abducts in this sensual historical romance from a New York Times –bestselling author.An Imperious CaptorHeading a thundering cavalcade of richly dressed Moorish soldiers, Lord Hassan commands attention with just one glance from his deep black eyes. And with one look, he knew that he had to have the chestnut-haired beauty who r... ... Read more

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  • Assassin's Creed: Revelations

    by Oliver Bowden ...
    Series Book 4 - Assassin's Creed
    Older, wiser, and more deadly than ever, Master Assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of Altaїr in this novel based on the Assassin's Creed™ video game series.The library holds not only hidden knowledge but also the most unsettling secret the world has ever known; a secret the Templars hope to use to control humankind’s destiny. Five keys are needed to access ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Marco Polo

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn, where he won the trust of the most feared and reviled leader of his day. Polo introduced the cultural riches of China to Europe, spawning ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary Edition)

    by Alev Lytle Croutier ...
    A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.“I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. “People around me often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sister had been brought up in one.”Drawing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Who Was Marco Polo?

    by Joan Holub, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Jerusalem Quartet

    Sinai Tapestry, Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows, and Jericho Mosaic

    by Edward Whittemore ...
    Series series The Jerusalem Quartet
    A special four-in-one edition of Edward Whittemore's epic Jerusalem QuartetIn Sinai Tapestry, it is 1840, and Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial. He ... Read more

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