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41) Turkeys together
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A pointer dog puppyu helps a mothe turkey figure out how to protect her eggs from being stolen.
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2012
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet: “A superlative piece of . . . writing . . . rooted in the Mediterranean scene” (Time). In 1953, as the British Empire relaxes its grip upon the world, the island of Cyprus bucks for independence. Some cry for union with Athens, others for an arrangement that would split the island down the middle, giving half...
44) Focus on Turkey
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c2008
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Explores the history, people, and culture of Turkey.
45) Snow
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Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity - a frozen sea these many years - leads him...
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Inspector Ikmen mysteries volume 1
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When a brutal murder takes place in Istanbul's run-down Jewish quarter, eccentric inspector Çetin Ikmen is assigned to the case by the Turkish police and pursues a labyrinthine plot throughout the area's back alleys.
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2016.
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"Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics. Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia. Author Rick Antonson...
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Discipline Files trilogy volume 2
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2021
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"Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of unprecedented security breaches... and now his neighbor on the flight to Istanbul won't stop talking. The only thing keeping him sane is the hunch that there's something not quite right about the nervous young man several rows ahead - a hunch that is confirmed when August watches him throw away directions to an old European...
50) Turkey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Photographs and text provide information about the country of Turkey.
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Babylon rising volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Field archaeologist Michael Murphy attempts the recovery of what may prove conclusively to be Noah's Ark, but dark forces are against him.
52) Turkey
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2010
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Discusses the geography, history, economy, government, religion, people, foreign relations, and communities of Turkey.
53) Empire of lies
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Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom--naked, covered in strange tattoos--to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall--along with all of Europe--to the empire's all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been...
54) The lark farm
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A stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only hope. Nunik is a proud, headstrong Armenian woman whose indomitable spirit captures the heart of an enemy Turkish soldier.
55) Turkey
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This book presents a history of the nation of Turkey and discusses how, by the end of the twentieth century, Turkey could be measured by its gains - strategic international partnerships and an educated populace.
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[2012]
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"From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Stardust, The Good German, and Los Alamos--a gripping tale of an American undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul who descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define the entire post-war era. A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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A retelling of the legend of Achilles follows Patroclus and Achilles, the golden son of King Peleus, as they lay siege to Troy after Helen of Sparta is kidnapped--a cause that tests their friendship and forces them to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present. For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of the world, perched at the very tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia. The history of this city known as Byzantium, then Constantinople, now Istanbul, is at once glorious, outsized, and astounding. Founded by the Greeks, its location blessed it...