<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Freely, Maureen,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Freely, Maureen,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/toledo/rss/search?query=Freely%2C%20Maureen%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:30:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[My Blue Peninsula]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Blue Peninsula is a confession that fills seven notebooks, with a final notebook left mostly empty. In them, Dora Giraud tries to explain to her adult daughters why she remains in Istanbul after escaping death at the hands of extremists, and why she risks her life to campaign for the truth about the Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian genocides, ferociously denied for a century by the Turkish state. 
	


	Dora's desperate need to understand her family history is the thread that binds this story's conflicting fragments. As the direct descendant of the genocides' victims and perpetrators, she carries a tangled legacy of loss and betrayal, lies and ill-gotten gains. With this confession, she hopes to set her daughters free. But can she?
	


	My Blue Peninsula is Maureen Freely's fourth novel set in Istanbul, the city of her childhood. In each, a character from the sidelines of the preceding novel takes centre stage to probe a mystery left pending. We first met Dora Giraud in Sailing Through Byzantium as the observant daughter of a famously bohemian household who could not, then, speak the truth.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C15941012</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C15941012</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Freely, Maureen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/15941012981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781739177782/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madonna in a Fur Coat]]></title><description><![CDATA[A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11990201</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C11990201</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ali, Sabahattin, Freely, Maureen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11990201981</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781681686042/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></title><description><![CDATA[In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband and five-year-old son are detained by U.S. border patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves behind in Istanbul a 53-page letter revealing a convoluted tale of political intrigue, intelligence operatives and Turkish teenage radicals, of a grisly murder and a dismembered body in a trunk. It is a grim and heartbreaking history of first loves shattered and best friends betrayed. Can Jeannie be saved? Is she as innocent as she seems?]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12463086</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C12463086</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Freely, Maureen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/12463086981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781468304091/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></title><description><![CDATA[In October 2005, only a few months after her Turkish husband and five-year-old son are detained by U.S. border patrol, Jeannie Wakefield disappears. She leaves behind in Istanbul a 53-page letter revealing a convoluted tale of political intrigue, intelligence operatives and Turkish teenage radicals, of a grisly murder and a dismembered body in a trunk. It is a grim and heartbreaking history of first loves shattered and best friends betrayed. Can Jeannie be saved? Is she as innocent as she seems?]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13684698</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13684698</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Freely, Maureen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13684698981</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781468304091/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></title><description><![CDATA[Disappearing a few months after her Turkish husband is detained and her young son is placed in foster care, Jeannie Wakefield leaves behind a letter to an anonymous journalist detailing the factors that shaped her three-decade life in Turkey.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1865586</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1865586</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Freely, Maureen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1865586218</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781590200742/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Life of the Party]]></title><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1286929</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1286929</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Freely, Maureen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1286929218</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780671506148/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snow]]></title><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1811661</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1811661</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1811661218</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780375706868/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snow]]></title><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1730044</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1730044</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1730044218</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>[a Novel]</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780375406973/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madonna in A Fur Coat]]></title><description><![CDATA["A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin. There, amid the city's bustling streets, elegant museums, passionate politics and seedy cabarets, a change meeting transforms his life forever. Caught between his desire for freedom and his yearning to belong, he struggles to hold on to the new life he has found"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C2204416</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C2204416</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sabahattin Ali]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2204416218</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781590518809/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></title><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1757389</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1757389</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1757389218</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Memories and the City</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400040957/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></title><description><![CDATA[A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost man of letters. Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination.--From publisher description.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1812566</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1812566</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1812566218</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>Memories and the City</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400033881/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Museum of Innocence]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Fusun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects--a museum of one man's broken heart--that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart's reactions.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1934886</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1934886</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1934886218</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307273260/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Museum of Innocence]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. 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Thus begins an obsessive but tragic love affair that will transform itself into a compulsive collection of objects-- a museum of one man's broken heart-- that chronicle Kemal's lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart's reactions.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1911376</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1911376</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1911376218</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>[a Novel]</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307266767/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Museum of Innocence]]></title><description><![CDATA[<b>Now a Netflix series • From the Nobel Prize winner and "one of the great novelists" (<i>The Washington Post) </i>comes a stirring exploration of the nature of romance in late 1970s Istanbul. <br></b><br>It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal and Sibel, children of two prominent families, are about to become engaged. But when Kemal encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation, he becomes enthralled. And once they violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeoisie. In his pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress—amassing a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C221877</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C221877</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/221877980</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle/><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307273260/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other Colors]]></title><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1838269</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1838269</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1838269218</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays and A Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307266750/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Black Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rüya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? 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Kemal, thirty, from an upperclass family, is engaged to a girl of like background when by chance he encounters a long-lost relation: Füsun is a shopgirl, an eighteen-year-old beauty who stirs all the passion denied him in a society where sex outside marriage is taboo...]]></description><link>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1923560</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C1923560</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamuk, Orhan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1923560218</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781415965689/MC.GIF&amp;client=tlcovega&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>