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<div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Book 1 – 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World:</b></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour</font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away…'</span><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her life – friends who are now desperately trying to find her.</span><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Book 2 – The Bastard of Istanbul:</b></span><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country’s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the “bastard” of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya’s mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. Their one estranged brother lives in Arizona with his wife and her Armenian daughter, Armanoush. When Armanoush secretly flies to Istanbul in search of her identity, she finds the Kazanci sisters and becomes fast friends with Asya. A secret is uncovered that links the two families and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres. Full of vigorous, unforgettable female characters, The Bastard of Istanbul is a bold, powerful tale that will confirm Shafak as a rising star of international fiction.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Book 3 – The Forty Rules of Love:</b></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country’s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the “bastard” of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya’s mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. Their one estranged brother lives in Arizona with his wife and her Armenian daughter, Armanoush. When Armanoush secretly flies to Istanbul in search of her identity, she finds the Kazanci sisters and becomes fast friends with Asya. A secret is uncovered that links the two families and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres. Full of vigorous, unforgettable female characters, The Bastard of Istanbul is a bold, powerful tale that will confirm Shafak as a rising star of international fiction.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Book 4 – Honor:</b></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in. After Adem abandons his family, Iskender, the eldest son, must step in and become the one who will not let any shame come to the family name. And when Pembe begins a chaste affair with a man named Elias, Iskender will discover that you could love someone with all your heart and yet be ready to hurt them.</font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif">Just published to great acclaim in England, Honor is a powerful, gripping exploration of guilt and innocence, loyalty and betrayal, and the trials of the immigrant, as well as the love and heartbreak that too often tear families apart.</font></div><div><br></div>