Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rèuya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celãal, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celãal, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celãal's identity, wearing his clothes, answe...more
In ISTANBUL, Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has written a mesmerizing blend of memoir and ode, a book that is simultaneously about Pamuk's adolescence in Istanbul and about the nature of the city itself. Pamuk paints Istanbul as a lovely but melancholic world, a place always yearning to be something other than it is, haunted by its glorious...more
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists...more
In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It's an Internet user's spy novel where the good guys and bad guys strugg...more
A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending president...more
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating newweapon of destruction. An unthinkable target.World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centu...more
Diane Thiberge est un drôle d'animal : grande, belle, blonde, elle a été, adolescente, victime d'une horrible agression. Résultat : elle est maintenant solitaire, championne en arts martiaux et spécialiste du comportement des animaux prédateurs. À 29 ans, pour sortir de sa citadelle, elle décide d'adopter dans un orphelinat en Thaïlande,...more
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