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"Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds."—Orhan Pamuk, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Narrated through the eyes of the intimates of Suleyman the Magnificent, the sixteenth-century sultan of the Ottoman Empire, The Lion House animates with stunning immediacy the fears and stratagems of those brought into orbit around him: the Greek slave who becomes his Grand Vizier, the Venetian jewel dealer who acts as his go-between, the Russian consort who becomes his most beloved wife.
Within a decade and a half, Suleyman held dominion over twenty-five million souls, from Baghdad to the walls of Vienna, and with the help of his brilliant pirate commander Barbarossa placed more Christians than ever before or since under Muslim rule. And yet the real drama takes place in close-up: in small rooms and whispered conversations, behind the curtain of power, where the sultan sleeps head to toe with his best friend and eats from wooden spoons with his baby boy.
In The Lion House, Christopher de Bellaigue tells not just the story of rival superpowers in an existential duel, nor of one of the most consequential lives in human history, but of what it means to live in a time when a few men get to decide the fate of the world.
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Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. In this urgent book, award-winning investigative journalist Justin Fenton distills hundreds of interviews, thousands of court documents, and countless hours of video footage to present the definitive account of the entire scandal.
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Hard to Follow
- De Dmez en 05-17-21
De: Justin Fenton
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- De: Jason Goodwin
- Narrado por: Grahame Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over 600 years the empire swelled and declined, rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted and total.
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Good introduction to the Ottomans, bad narration
- De Skeptical en 06-06-18
De: Jason Goodwin
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Scattered All Over the Earth
- De: Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani - translator
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language."
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The whispering narrator is too hard to hear
- De robin helman en 07-29-24
De: Yoko Tawada, y otros
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood
- The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
- De: Anthony Kaldellis
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 15 h y 50 m
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks and the Normans brought an end to Byzantine hegemony. By 1081, Byzantium's very existence was threatened.
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Well researched, well written
- De 19levans en 03-06-24
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The Books of Jacob
- A Novel
- De: Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft - translator
- Narrado por: Allen Lewis Rickman, Gilli Messer
- Duración: 35 h y 37 m
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In the mid-18th century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.
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Dense & Difficult But Rewarding
- De Nick O. en 02-28-22
De: Olga Tokarczuk, y otros
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A Mercy
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
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Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, "with the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady." Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from a handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved.
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Great book
- De Pablo Tebas en 01-18-09
De: Toni Morrison
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We Own This City
- A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
- De: Justin Fenton
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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Baltimore, 2015. Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. In this urgent book, award-winning investigative journalist Justin Fenton distills hundreds of interviews, thousands of court documents, and countless hours of video footage to present the definitive account of the entire scandal.
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Hard to Follow
- De Dmez en 05-17-21
De: Justin Fenton
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Lords of the Horizons
- A History of the Ottoman Empire
- De: Jason Goodwin
- Narrado por: Grahame Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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The Ottoman Empire has long exerted a strong pull on Western minds and hearts. For over 600 years the empire swelled and declined, rising from a dusty fiefdom in the foothills of Anatolia to a power which ruled over the Danube and the Euphrates with the richest court in Europe. But its decline was prodigious, protracted and total.
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Good introduction to the Ottomans, bad narration
- De Skeptical en 06-06-18
De: Jason Goodwin
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The Lost World of Byzantium
- De: Jonathan Harris
- Narrado por: Gareth Richards
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For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Rather than recounting the standard chronology of emperors and battles, leading Byzantium scholar Jonathan Harris focuses on a succession of archetypal figures, families, places, and events.
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a survey of Byzantium
- De Salvador en 12-22-23
De: Jonathan Harris
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The Last Viking
- The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
- De: Don Hollway
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
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Harald Sigurdsson burst into history as a teenaged youth in a Viking battle from which he escaped with little more than his life and a thirst for vengeance. But from these humble origins, he became one of Norway’s most legendary kings. The Last Viking is a fast-moving narrative account of the life of King Harald Hardrada, as he journeyed across the medieval world, from the frozen wastelands of the North to the glittering towers of Byzantium and the passions of the Holy Land, until his warrior death on the battlefield in England.
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Just okay
- De Amazon Customer en 06-28-24
De: Don Hollway
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The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248-260
- When the Gods Abandoned Rome
- De: Paul N. Pearson
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome's millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome, involving a series of civil wars, several major invasions by Goths and Persians, economic crisis, and an empire-wide pandemic, the 'plague of Cyprian'.
De: Paul N. Pearson
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- De: Judith Herrin
- Narrado por: Phyllida Nash
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Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium-long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium—what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.
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Not a comprehensible history
- De kevin arsenault en 10-07-23
De: Judith Herrin
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Rome and Persia
- The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
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The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only true rival lay in the east, where the Parthian and then Persian empires ruled over great cities and the trade routes to mysterious lands beyond. Tracing seven centuries of conflict between Rome and Persia, historian Adrian Goldsworthy shows how these two great powers evolved together
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MAPS NEEDED
- De David en 12-29-23
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Kantika
- De: Elizabeth Graver
- Narrado por: Gail Shalan
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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Exploring identity, place, and exile, Kantika also reveals how the female body—in work, art, and love—serves as a site of both suffering and joy. A haunting, inspiring meditation on the tenacity of women, this lush, lyrical novel from Elizabeth Graver celebrates the insistence on seizing beauty and grabbing hold of one’s one and only life.
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Outstanding performance of a beautiful book
- De Elliott Wolfe, M.D. en 07-25-23
De: Elizabeth Graver
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Shogun
- The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler
- De: A.L. Sadler, Stephen Turnbull - foreword, Alexander Bennett - foreword
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 17 h y 56 m
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For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his descendants to rule Japan for the next 260 years—a period in which Japanese culture as we know it today flourished.
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This is a boring reference book
- De Antone Ferreira en 05-25-24
De: A.L. Sadler, y otros
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 40 h y 29 m
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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The Best of all Biographies
- De David C. Daggett en 12-14-13
De: Robert A. Caro
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On Beauty
- De: Zadie Smith
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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This wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars—on both sides of the Atlantic—serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.
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Somewhat Disappointed
- De Cherokee en 11-15-05
De: Zadie Smith
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Atonement
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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In Atonement, three children lose their innocence, as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935, and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's hyperimaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. And as chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the guilt of which she shall carry throughout her life.
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An amazing book about complex human perception
- De Amazon Customer en 08-17-04
De: Ian McEwan
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The Rachel Incident
- A Novel
- De: Caroline O'Donoghue
- Narrado por: Tara Flynn
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.
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Best narration
- De LG en 01-12-24
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1177 B.C. (Revised and Updated)
- The Year Civilization Collapsed
- De: Eric H. Cline
- Narrado por: Eric H. Cline
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and best-selling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages.
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Look past the one-star reviews: this is an enlightening and engaging read.
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-07-22
De: Eric H. Cline
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Lion House
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- Andrea newton
- 12-23-22
Hmm
I wanted to enjoy this book but the narration never allowed me to fully engage. The story was not unfamiliar to me but it felt disjointed.
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- isabel B.
- 11-26-22
all about warfare and conquest
struggle to finish some well written passages but not a strong plot.a fair way to get to know the middle eastern culture
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- John
- 12-29-22
Too much detail?
Very well researched and extraordinary detail. I would have preferred to hear more about the interaction of Suleiman and his children than was presented in this book. The reader was great.
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- 02-23-23
Amazing Magical Storytelling
Welcome to History as Storytelling &if you've never heard of it before or heard it before or experienced exactly how history can be framed as a kind of Wizard of Oz movie in your imagination; then you are in for a treat.
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- Charles
- 12-21-22
Palace, intrigue
Most of this is about the people who rule the empire in the name of the sultan. There is one interesting campaign to take Venice that was sidelined because of poor mapsand the heavy artillery ending up in a swamp. Without this mishap, Venice, history could have changed radically.
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- jerry zepatos
- 12-17-22
very boring it reads like a text book
save your money its like a text book, just fact and history no plot no story line
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