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1) The Sheen on the Silk

Author

Perry, Anne

Series

Thorndike Press large print basic

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Anna Zarides arrives in Constantinople in 1273 to prove the innocence of her twin brother, Justinian. He has been exiled for conspiring to kill Bessarion, a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves about freely, using her skills as a physician to maneuver close to the key players involved in her brother's fate. Anna crosses paths with Zoe Chrysaphes, a devious noblewoman with her own hidden agenda, and Giuliano Dandolo,...

2) The Janissary Tree

Author

Goodwin, Jason

Series

Yashim Togalu mysteries volume 1
Yashim the Eunuch volume 1

Pub. Date

[2006]

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The year is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the sultan of the Ottoman Empire feels he has no choice but to follow suit. But just as he's poised to announce sweeping political change, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind the killings? Deep in the Abode of Felicity, the most forbidden district of Topkapi Palace, the sultan - ruler of the Black Sea and the White, ruler of Rumelia and Mingrelia, steely rider...

3) The Persian boy

Author

Renault, Mary

Series

Alexander the Great trilogy (Mary Renault) volume 2

Pub. Date

[1972]

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A narrative of the life of Alexander the Great from the age of twenty-six until his death seven years later.

4) The snake stone

Author

Goodwin, Jason

Series

Yashim Togalu mysteries volume 2
Yashim the Eunuch

Pub. Date

[2007]

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"When 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 brilliantly solved the mysterious murders in The Janissary Tree, is once again enlisted to investigate. But when the archaeologist's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out there is only one suspect:...

5) Desert god

Author

Smith, Wilbur A

Series

Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 5
Ancient Egypt volume 5

Formats

Book, Large Print

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On the gleaming banks of the Nile, the brilliant Taita--a freed slave and advisor to the Pharaoh--devises a plant to destroy Egypt's most feared enemy, the mighty Hyksos. His quest will take him on an epic journey up the ancient river, through Arabia and the magical city of Babylon and across the open seas--all in the company of the Pharaoh's exquisite sisters. With the future of the kingdom itself on his shoulders, Taita plunges into a world where...

6) Cry to heaven

Author

Rice, Anne

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They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!