The Sultan S Daughter

Author : P. E. Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798635700334

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The Sultan's Daughter by P. E. Gilbert Pdf

"The Kingdom exists in a delicate balance. Do everything you can, Nalini, to keep it together."Victory means life and furthering everything that her father has built. Defeat means death, destruction and ruin.The choices could not be starker for Princess Nalini after a curse is placed upon her family. Untrained for rule and war, she must adapt quickly. For who else can stop the armies of frightening fanaticism marching toward the capital if not the Sultan's daughter?

Author : Ann Chamberlin
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812553853

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The Sultan's Daughter by Ann Chamberlin Pdf

Giorgio Veniero, a eunuch, guards the life and honor of his beloved mistress, Esmikhan, the Sultan's daughter, but when forbidden passion tempts her, Giorgio risks his life to find that her happiness is in his hands. Reprint. AB. LJ. PW.

Author : Dennis Wheatley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448212941

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The Sultan's Daughter by Dennis Wheatley Pdf

Feb 1798 - 31 Dec 1799 'Had it not been for Zanthé there is little doubt that at the age of thirty-one Roger Brook would have died in Palestine.' Roger Brook, Prime Minister Pitt's most resourceful secret agent. Zanthé, exotic, loving and hating with equal intensity; daughter of the Sultan and beautiful. Napoleon's army; victorious in Egypt but trapped by Nelson's fleet, besieging Acre, ravaged by plague. At the heart of the French counsels – Roger Brook. A vital position for England. A deadly dangerous one for him.

Author : Dennis Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474796465

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The Sultan's Daughter by Dennis Wheatley Pdf

Author : Jane Downing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0648174298

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The Sultan's Daughter by Jane Downing Pdf

It is 1866 and Zanzibar is momentarily quiet after a rebellion against the Sultan. Sayyida Salmé waits in the harem hoping to be forgiven for her part in the uprising against her brother. When she hears merchant Heinrich Ruete singing from across the narrow Stone Town street, Salmé lifts her veil to possibility. Set against the backdrop of the slave trade and the impossible wealth of the Sultans of Zanzibar, Salmé's story of forbidden love unfolds dramatically and takes her further into exile. The Sultan's Daughter follows real life events. It is a story of great tenderness, and of great loss.

Author : Christiane Bird
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345469403

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The Sultan's Shadow by Christiane Bird Pdf

A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.

Author : Laurel Corona
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402286506

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The Mapmaker's Daughter by Laurel Corona Pdf

"Vividly detailed and beautifully written, this is a pleasure to read, a thoughtful, deeply engaging story of the power of faith to navigate history's rough terrain."—Booklist How Far Would You Go To Stay True to Yourself? Spain, 1492. On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a country violently divided by religion, she must either convert to Christianity and stay safe, or remain a Jew and risk everything. It's a choice she's been walking toward her whole life, from the days of her youth when her family lit the Shabbat candles in secret. Back then, she saw the vast possibility of the world, outlined in the beautiful pen and ink maps her father created. But the world has shifted and contracted since then. The Mapmaker's Daughter is a stirring novel about identity, exile, and what it means to be home. "A close look at the great costs and greater rewards of being true to who you really are. A lyrical journey to the time when the Jews of Spain were faced with the wrenching choice of deciding their future as Jews—a pivotal period of history and inspiration today."—Margaret George, New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth I "The many twists and turns in the life of the mapmaker's daughter, Amalia, mirror the tenuous and harrowing journey of the Jewish community in fifteenth-century Iberia, showing how family and faith overcame even the worst the Inquisition could inflict on them."—Anne Easter Smith, author of Royal Mistress and A Rose for the Crown "A powerful love story ignites these pages, making the reader yearn for more as they come to know Amalia and Jamil, two of the most compelling characters in recent historical fiction. An absolute must-read!"—Michelle Moran, author of The Second Empress and Madam Tussaud

Author : Murat Bardakçi
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617978449

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Neslishah by Murat Bardakçi Pdf

Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was the last member of the imperial family to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph-but not as sultan-by his brother (and Neslishah's other grandfather) Abdülmecid; in 1924 Abdülmecid was also removed from office, and the entire imperial family, including three-year-old Neslishah, were sent into exile. Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. And when in 1952 her husband was appointed regent for Egypt's infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country's first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed once more, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was allowed to return to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012. Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman's extraordinary life is also the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart.

Author : Jilali El Koudia
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815654445

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Moroccan Folktales by Jilali El Koudia Pdf

Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savored, studied, or simply treasured. Varied genres include anecdotes, legends, and animal fables, and some tales bear strong resemblance to European counterparts, for example Aamar and his Sister (Hansel and Gretel) and Nunja and the White Dove (Cinderella). All capture the heart of Morroco and the soul of its people. In an enlightening introduction, El Koudia mourns the loss of the teller of tales in the marketplace, and he makes it clear that storytelling, born of memory and oral tradition, could vanish in the face of mass and electronic media.

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780307819833

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The Riddle of Scheherazade by Raymond Smullyan Pdf

In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of “fantastic logical ingenuity,” to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of losing her head at down. But, thinking quickly, she tempts the king to stay her execution by posing him the most delightfully devious mathematical and logic puzzle ever invented. They keep him guessing for many more nights until the fatal hour has passed, and she keeps her head. The Riddle of Scheherazade includes several wonderful old chestnuts and many fiendishly original puzzles, 225 in all. There are logic tricks and number games, metapuzzles (puzzles about puzzles), liar/truth-teller exercises, Gödelian brian twisters, baffling paradoxes, and an excursion, under Scheherazade’s expert guidance, into an amusing new field invented by Smullyan, called “coercive” logic, in which the answer to a problem can actually change the fate of the puzzler! An absolute must for all puzzle fans—from the middle-school whiz to the sophisticated mathematician or computer scientist.

Author : Sarah Bryant
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101145487

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Sand Daughter by Sarah Bryant Pdf

"An epic filled with emotion and rich with atmosphere" (Historical Novel Society) from the author of The Other Eden. Khalidah faces an arranged marriage at the behest of her father, a Bedouin Clan chief. But when a mysterious stranger named Sulayman reveals the machinations behind her pending union, she suddenly finds herself a pawn in a deadly plot involving her own feuding tribe and the powerful Templar Knights. Faced with certain death, Khalidah runs away with Sulayman, a man she barely knows. Their journey, and the desire that grows between them, will thrust Khalidah toward unimaginable adventure, and the echoes of a past that somehow connect her to the Jinn—the mysterious Afghan warriors who may hold the key to the coming battle for the Holy Land.

Author : Douglas Scott Brookes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292783355

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The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher by Douglas Scott Brookes Pdf

In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse "behind the veil" into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction. These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English.

Author : P. E. Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798540399272

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The Kingdom's Protector by P. E. Gilbert Pdf

The eagerly-awaited sequel to The Sultan's Daughter is here. Nalini is back and faces another existential crisis. The synopsis is as follows: "I made my father a promise: to hold the Kingdom together and protect it. I intend to honour that promise." Threats are rising. To the east, disturbing rumours spread of heathens bringing death and destruction wherever they trample; and to the south, a rebellious lord causes alarm by siphoning off water at a time of drought. In addition, the menace of frightening fanaticism remains, waiting to strike again... How will Princess Nalini, the Sultan's Daughter, keep her promise when the Kingdom is on the verge of tearing itself apart?

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Folk tales of the world
ISBN : 9780393052121

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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela Pdf

Mandela, the Nobel Laureate for Peace, has selected 32 African stories for this extraordinary new book, an anthology that presents Africa's oldest folk tales to the children of the world. Full color.

Author : Cameron Dokey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Betrayal
ISBN : 9780743422208

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The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey Pdf

A retelling of the story of Shahrazad that interweaves fantasy, court intrigue, and romance.