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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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Ottoman Empire Mystery

The Bellini Card

The Bellini Card


by Jason Goodwin

  • MYSTERY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

Jason Goodwin (Lords of the Horizon) artfully weaves murder and mystery with historical figures and marvelous setting in this third installment in the Edgar Award-winning series, in which Istanbul's new sultan dispatches Yashim to Venice solve a trail of murders associated with a highly-sought after painting, a portrait of none other than Mehmet the Conqueror by Gentile Bellini. The most prestigious Venetian artist of his day, Bellini (1429-1507) was indeed asked to paint the great Sultan Mehmet II (and the portrait attributed to him is in London's National Gallery). It follows The Jannisary Tree and The Snake Stone, and, both deliciously set amongst the muezzins and minarets of 1830s Istanbul. (TKY191, $15.00)

An Evil Eye

An Evil Eye


by Jason Goodwin

  • MYSTERY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

Back from Venice, investigator Yashim is drawn into the mysterious and dangerous intrigues of the sultan's seraglio at Topkapi Palace In the fourth novel of Edgar Award-winning author Jason Goodwin's internationally-acclaimed Ottoman Empire Series. Just out in paper, you can read more about the book, and get Goodwin's recommendations for visiting Topkapi and some ideas for where to have lunch while in Istanbul, on the Longitude Blog. (TKY240, $15.00)

The Janissary Tree

The Janissary Tree


by Jason Goodwin

  • MYSTERY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

With beautiful descriptions of Istanbul and its palaces, this engaging and bizarre historical mystery will keep you reading. The Ottoman Empire mysteries continue with The Snake Stone (TKY156, $14.00) and The Bellini Card (TKY191, $25.00), set in 1840s Venice. (TKY125, $15.00)

The Snake Stone

The Snake Stone


by Jason Goodwin

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

The second of Goodwin's richly detailed Ottoman Empire mysteries puts eunuch detective Yashim on the trail of a murderer and missing Greek artifacts in 19-century Istanbul. (TKY156, $14.00)

 

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