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From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families 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... (more)

Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

by Peter Balakian

The first-born son of his generation, Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia and immersed in an all-American boyhood defined by rock 'n' roll, adolescent pranks, and a passion for the New York Yankees that he shared with his beloved grandmother. But beneath this sunny world lay the dark specter of the trauma his family and ancestors had experienced--the... (more)

A Problem from Hell

America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop... (more)

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

by Franz Werfel

This stirring, poignant novel, based on real historical events that made of actual people true heroes, unfolds the tragedy that befell the Armenian people in the dark year of 1915. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands southwest of the Caspian Sea the Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Unable to deny his birthright or his people, ... (more)

Skylark Farm

by Geoffrey Brock, Antonia Arslan

A beautiful, wrenching debut novel chronicling the life of a family struggling for survival during the Armenian genocide in Turkey, in 1915. At the center: Yerwant, who, at thirteen, left his home in the Anatolian hills of Turkey to study at an Armenian boarding school in Venice. Now, in May 1915, after forty years, he is planning a long-awaited reunion with his family at their homestead, Skylark Farm. But while... (more)

Armenian Golgotha

by Grigoris Palak?ean

Never before in English, Armenian Golgotha is the most dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide. On April 24, 1915, the priest Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other intellectuals and leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey; it was a... (more)

Among the Russians

by Colin Thubron

Here is a fresh perspective on the last tumultuous years of the Soviet Union and an exquisitely poetic travelogue. With a keen grasp of Russia's history, a deep appreciation for its architecture and iconography, and an inexhaustible enthusiasm for its people and its culture, Colin Thubron is the perfect guide to a country most of us will never get to know firsthand. Here, we can walk down western Russia's... (more)

Culinaria Russia - Rusland, Oekraïne, Georgië, Armenië, Azerbeidzjan

Culinaria Russia - Rusland, Oekraïne, Georgië, Armenië, Azerbeidzjan

by Marion Trutter,Hartmut Moreike,Alexej Kozlatsjkov,Beate Blaha,Isabel Kielian,Marek Kielian,Marcus Würmli,Elnara Ismailova

Black Dog of FatePeter Balakian

Black Dog of Fate

by Peter Balakian

The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus

The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus

by Vahakn N. Dadrian

The Armenian Genocide, though not given such prominent treatment as the Jewish Holocaustwhich it precedes, still haunts the Western world and has assumed a new significance in the light of "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia. This study by the most distinguished scholar of the Armenian tragedy offers an authoritative analysis by presenting it as a case study of genocide and by seeing it as an historical process in which... (more)

Ali et Nino

by Kurban Saïd

......" In Kharabagh , christians and muslims celebrated together under the pagan shades of the sacred forest".....

The Secret on Ararat

by Tim F. LaHaye

In "Babylon Rising", Tim LaHaye began an adventure series that he calls even more exciting than his 50-million-plus-copy bestselling "Left Behind" series. Readers agreed, as the novel debuted as a top-ten "New York Times" bestseller. Now, in the second "Babylon Rising" novel, Biblical scholar, archaeologist, professor, and hero for our times, Michael Murphy is in pursuit of one of the most mysterious and... (more)

Zabelle

by Nancy Kricorian

As Zabelle's family assembles for her funeral in present-day Massachusetts, it becomes clear that her children hardly knew her. But as this alternatively comic and heartbreaking novel unfolds--beginning with Zabelle's survival of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Turkey and her subsequent emigration to America for an arranged marriage--an unforgettable character emerges.

The Crossing Place

by Philip Marsden

After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas of the East to Western Europe. Today, shrunk to a tenth of its former size and wracked by war with Azerbaijan... (more)

The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea

The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea

by Steve LeVine

Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn't get to it. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the region erupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the world's leading nations flocked to the Caspian for a share of the thirty billion barrels of proven oil reserves at... (more)

Forgotten Fire

by Adam Bagdasarian

In 1915 Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege as the youngest son of a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. This secure world is shattered when some family members are whisked away while others are murdered before his eyes. Vahan loses his home and family, and is forced to live a life he would never have dreamed of in order to survive. Somehow Vahan’s incredible strength and spirit help him endure, even... (more)

Lonely Planet Georgia Armenia & Azerbaijan (Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan)

Lonely Planet Georgia Armenia & Azerbaijan (Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan)

by Richard Plunkett, Tom Masters

Hike in the stunning Caucasus Mountains, bathe in the Black Sea, explore lush, church-studded hills, laze on the shores of Lake Sevan and enjoy generous local hospitality. Connect with the diverse cultures and wide-ranging landscapes of the South Caucasus in this, the only guide to cover the region. • UNRAVEL THE PAST - extensive coverage of the region's fascinating history and mosaic of cultures • PLAN YOUR... (more)

Rooster BrotherNonny Hogrogian

Rooster Brother

by Nonny Hogrogian

A clever boy continually frustrates three bandits who stole his rooster.

THE CONTEST. An Armenian Folktale. Caldecott Honor Book.Nonny. HOGROGIAN

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by Elif Shafak

by Peter Balakian

America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power

by Franz Werfel

by Geoffrey Brock, Antonia Arslan

by Grigoris Palak?ean

by Colin Thubron

by Marion Trutter,Hartmut Moreike,Alexej Kozlatsjkov,Beate Blaha,Isabel Kielian,Marek Kielian,Marcus Würmli,Elnara Ismailova

by Peter Balakian

by Vahakn N. Dadrian

by Kurban Saïd

by Tim F. LaHaye

by Nancy Kricorian

by Philip Marsden

by Steve LeVine

by Adam Bagdasarian

by Richard Plunkett, Tom Masters

by Nonny Hogrogian

by Nonny. HOGROGIAN