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The Janissary Tree

A Novel

by Jason Goodwin ...

Series Book 1 - Investigator Yashim
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELThis first book in the Investigator Yashim series is a richly entertaining tale, full of exotic history and intrigue, introduces Investigator Yashim: In 1830s Istanbul, an extra-ordinary hero tackles an extraordinary plot that threatens to topple the Ottoman EmpireIt is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELThis first book in the Investigator Yashim series is a richly entertaining tale, full of exotic history and intrigue, introduces Investigator Yashim: In 1830s Istanbul, an extra-ordinary hero tackles an extraordinary plot that threatens to topple the Ottoman EmpireIt is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the
... Read more

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The Snake Stone

A Novel

by Jason Goodwin ...

Series Book 2 - Investigator Yashim
The captivating return of Yashim, the eunuch investigator from the intelligent, elliptical and beguilingly written" (The Times, London) bestseller The Janissary TreeWhen a French archaeologist arrives in 1830s Istanbul determined to track down a lost Byzantine treasure, the local Greek communities are uncertain how to react; the man seems dangerously well informed. Yashim Togalu, who so ... Read more

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The captivating return of Yashim, the eunuch investigator from the intelligent, elliptical and beguilingly written" (The Times, London) bestseller The Janissary TreeWhen a French archaeologist arrives in 1830s Istanbul determined to track down a lost Byzantine treasure, the local Greek communities are uncertain how to react; the man seems dangerously well informed. Yashim Togalu, who so
... Read more

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A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe ...

Series series Modern Library Classics
Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the ... Read more

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Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and unsentimental detail it renders the daily life of a city under siege; the often gruesome medical precautions and practices of the
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An Evil Eye

A Novel

by Jason Goodwin ...

Series Book 4 - Investigator Yashim
From the Edgar® Award–winning author of The Janissary Tree comes the fourth and most captivating Investigator Yashim mystery yet!It takes a writer of prodigious talents to conjure the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire in all itsmajesty. In three previous novels, Jason Goodwin has taken us on stylish, suspenseful, and vibrant excursions into its exotic territory. Now, in An Evil Eye, the mystery of ... Read more

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From the Edgar® Award–winning author of The Janissary Tree comes the fourth and most captivating Investigator Yashim mystery yet!It takes a writer of prodigious talents to conjure the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire in all itsmajesty. In three previous novels, Jason Goodwin has taken us on stylish, suspenseful, and vibrant excursions into its exotic territory. Now, in An Evil Eye, the mystery of
... Read more

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The Baklava Club

A Novel

by Jason Goodwin ...

Series Book 5 - Investigator Yashim
Join Investigator Yashim for a final exotic escapade in this rich Edgar Award–winning seriesIn four previous novels, Jason Goodwin's Inspector Yashim, the eunuch detective, has led us through stylish, suspenseful, and colorful mysteries in the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire. Now, in The Baklava Club, Yashim returns for his final adventure—and his most thrilling yet.Three naïve Italian liberals, ... Read more

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Join Investigator Yashim for a final exotic escapade in this rich Edgar Award–winning seriesIn four previous novels, Jason Goodwin's Inspector Yashim, the eunuch detective, has led us through stylish, suspenseful, and colorful mysteries in the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire. Now, in The Baklava Club, Yashim returns for his final adventure—and his most thrilling yet.Three naïve Italian liberals,
... Read more
Lords of the Horizons

A History of the Ottoman Empire

by Jason Goodwin ...

"An elegantly written, thoroughly entertaining work of popular history" examining the Ottoman Empire and its legacy ( Kirkus Reviews).For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile. At its height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France ... Read more

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"An elegantly written, thoroughly entertaining work of popular history" examining the Ottoman Empire and its legacy ( Kirkus Reviews).For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile. At its height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France
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The Bellini Card

A Novel

by Jason Goodwin ...

Series Book 3 - Investigator Yashim
Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar® Award–winning author Jason Goodwin's captivating historical mystery seriesJason Goodwin's first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, brought home the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone, more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as "a ... Read more

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Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar® Award–winning author Jason Goodwin's captivating historical mystery seriesJason Goodwin's first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, brought home the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone, more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as "a
... Read more

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The Travels of Marco Polo

by Marco Polo ...

Translated by William Marsden ...

Series series Modern Library Classics
Marco Polo’s account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recorded customs, natural history, strange ... Read more

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Marco Polo’s account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recorded customs, natural history, strange
... Read more

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The Global Debt Crisis and How We Can Get out of It

by Jason Goodwin ...

“People of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Those words come from Henry Ford, and they are truer today than ever. Banks continue to purchase assets with other people’s money, which contributed to the global debt crisis that devastated so many individuals and families. Jason Goodwin, a ... Read more

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“People of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Those words come from Henry Ford, and they are truer today than ever. Banks continue to purchase assets with other people’s money, which contributed to the global debt crisis that devastated so many individuals and families. Jason Goodwin, a
... Read more
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A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe, Jason Goodwin ...

Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

The plague of 1665 was followed by the Great Fire of London in 1666: great disasters evoking great responses. Those events re-fashioned the London landscape, and Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year re-fashioned English literature. ... Read more

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The plague of 1665 was followed by the Great Fire of London in 1666: great disasters evoking great responses. Those events re-fashioned the London landscape, and Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year re-fashioned English literature.
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The Janissary Tree

A Novel

by Jason Goodwin ...

Narrated by Stephen Hoye ...

Series series Yashim the Eunuch
Unabridged

11 hours 22 min

The Janissary Tree, the first book in a new series, is set in a most extraordinary world and features a most extraordinary sleuth.It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to ... Read more

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The Janissary Tree, the first book in a new series, is set in a most extraordinary world and features a most extraordinary sleuth.It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to
... Read more

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The Baklava Club

by Jason Goodwin ...

Narrated by Gemma Dawson ...

Series series Yashim the Eunuch
Unabridged

8 hours 59 min

Three naïve Italian liberals, exiled in Istanbul, have bungled their instructions to kill a Polish prince—instead, they've kidnapped him and absconded to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who are passing along false orders under the code name La Piuma, the Feather.It falls to Yashim to unravel all this—he's convinced ... Read more

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Three naïve Italian liberals, exiled in Istanbul, have bungled their instructions to kill a Polish prince—instead, they've kidnapped him and absconded to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who are passing along false orders under the code name La Piuma, the Feather.It falls to Yashim to unravel all this—he's convinced
... Read more

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