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2009., Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: MYS Fic Goo Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2012., Adult, Scribner Call No: Fic Ami Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Iran in 1576 is a place of wealth and dazzling beauty. But when the Shah dies without having named an heir, the court is thrown into tumult. Princess Pari, the Shah's daughter and protégé, knows more about the inner workings of the state than almost anyone, but the princess's maneuvers to instill order after her father's sudden death incite resentment and dissent. Pari and her closest adviser, Javaher, a eunuch able to navigate the harem as well as the world beyond the palace walls, are in possession of an incredible tapestry of secrets and information that reveals a power struggle of epic proportions."-- Dust jacket.
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2006., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: MYS Fic Goo Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the Ottoman Empire of 1836 is shattered by a wave of political murders that threatens to upset the balance of power, eunuch intelligence agent Yashim Togalu conducts an investigation into clues within the empires once-elite military forces, which had been crushed by the Sultan when they became too powerful.
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By Barwin, Gary2021., Random House Canada Call No: Fic Bar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy flees 1940s Lithuania ahead of the Nazis in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world of cowboy novels by writers like Karl May--novels equally loved by Hitler, whose troops have just invaded Lithuania and are out to exterminate men like Motl. In his dreams, Motl is a fast-talking, rugged, expert gunslinger capable of dealing with the Nazi threat. But only in his dreams. As friends and neighbours are killed around them, Motl and Gitl escape from Vilnius, saving their own skins. But they immediately risk everything to try rescue relatives they hope are still alive. With death all around him, Motl decides that a Jew's best revenge is not only to live, but to procreate. In order to achieve this, though, he must relocate those most crucial pieces of his anatomy lost to him down a crevasse in the Swiss Alps in the previous war. It's an absurd yet life-affirming mission, made even more urgent when he's separated from his mother, and isn't sure whether she's alive or dead. Joining forces, and eventually hearts, with Esther, a young Jewish woman whose family has been killed, Motl ventures across Europe, a kaleidoscope of narrow escapes and close encounters with everyone from Himmler, to circus freaks, double agents, quislings, fake "Indians" and real ones. Motl at last figures out that he has more connection to the Indigenous characters in western novels than the cowboys. An imaginative and deeply felt exploration of genocide, persecution, colonialism and masculinity--saturated in Gary Barwin's sharp wit and perfect pun-play--Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy is a one-of-a-kind novel of sheer genius."--
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2010., Ballantine Books Call No: Fic Per Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of Anastasius, a young woman who disguises herself as a eunuch in order to prove her brother innocent of a crime she knows he didn't commit. With the threat of the next Christian crusade looming, thirteenth-century Constantinople comes alive. Meanwhile, Anastasius works her way through each level of the city--from her humble neighbors to the emperor himself--seeking to uncover the truth.
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2007., Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Goo Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
