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21) Bright we burn
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And I darken volume 3
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389 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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To build the country she wants, Lada, the brutal ruler of Wallachia, must destroy everything that came before, including her relationships with brother Radu and former love Mehmed, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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"Lada Dracul abandonó a las dos únicas personas por las que alguna vez sintió algo parecido al amor -Radu, su hermano menor, y Mehmed, el sultán otomano- para reclamar el trono de su tierra. Pero nada será sencillo y su camino se convertirá en un baño de sangre. Las cosas habrían sido distintas si su hermano hubiera aceptado su pedido de ayuda, pero él, una vez más, eligió a Mehmed. Mientras tanto, Radu se dirige a Constantinopla con la...
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xviii, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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Perched at the tip of Europe, gazing across to the shores of Asia, Istanbul remains as much a city of crossroads as it has been for the past two millennia. The history of this fabled metropolis--known at first as Byzantion, then Constantinople, and now Istanbul--is glorious, grandiose, and astounding. No other city has stood at the center of world events for so long, a home to great empires and diverse cultures from the Greeks to the Romans, the Italians...
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"In 1755, Abel Cloudesley, a London watchmaker and creator of remarkable mechanical automata, is mourning his wife, Alice, who died giving birth to their son, Zachary. Six years later, Abel is further devastated when a freak workshop accident takes Zachary's eye. With his new eye made of gold and lapis by Abel's soft-spoken apprentice Tom, Zachary, now with an astonishing gift of second sight, is sent to live with his eccentric Aunt Franny in the...
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