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Language
English
Description
In his fifteenth book, the author brings us on a very different kind of journey. This tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012, a sweeping historical love story steeped in the author's Armenian heritage, making it his most personal novel to date. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke College, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language....
3) Sorry, bro
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and heartfelt queer rom-com by debut author Taleen Voskuni. When Nar's non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes it's time to find someone who shares her idea of romance. Enter her mother: armed with plenty of mom-guilt and a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked Armenian...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Gregor Demarkian grew up in the Armenian-American enclave in Philadelphia known as Cavanaugh Street. Even though he left to go to college, and then went on to a storied career in the famous Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI, he eventually returned to Cavanaugh Street after an early retirement. There he finds himself in a rapidly gentrifying urban neighborhood that still retains some of the friends, institutions, and flavor of the immigrant neighborhood...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alwych, Connecticut, is the stereotypical old money Connecticut beach town the best families live in mini mansions on Beach Drive, their children go to Alwych Country Day School, and the parents have memberships to the Atlantic Club. And Chapin Waring is the worst thing that ever happened to this town. She was a well turned out debutante from one of the richest families in Alwych until thirty years ago when the young debutante, destined to attend...
Author
Language
English
Description
In a novel overflows with a kitchen sink's worth of zany characters, women are front and center: Asya Kazanci, an angst-ridden 19-year-old Istanbulite is the bastard of the title; her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha (who intended to have an abortion), has raised Asya among three generations of complicated and colorful female relations (including religious clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye). The Kazanci men either die...
Author
Series
Gregor Demarkian books volume 30
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Jane Haddam's One of Our Own, Gregor Demarkian, former FBI agent and police consultant, returns for his final case--a surprising murder and an attempted murder, which threaten the safety of his Philadelphia neighborhood. A mysterious black van is spotted by several people at various times in the area around Cavanaugh Street, Philadelphia's Armenian-American enclave. Presumed by some to be related to the increasing ICE raids around the area, the...
9) Glass houses
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When Henry Tyder, an alcoholic, sometimes homeless member of a socially prominent Philadelphia family, is arrested at the scene of a murder, his attorney asks Gregor Demarkian, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, to look into the case.
10) Flowering Judas
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive--paying for a billboard overlooking the local community college, putting up new flyers every week, hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Her determination has made his disappearance very high profile but it's also been...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian probes the circumstances surrounding the death of a former client, following a maze of clues that could be tied to the arrest of a local Philadelphia right-wing radio talk-show host for illegal drugs.
12) America America
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1963, p1994]
Language
English
Description
This masterful movie chronicles the heroic journey of Kazan 's uncle from Turkey to the United States.
14) Sunday for Sona
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
An Armenian-American girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1930's has trouble convincing her family that she wants to be a sailor.
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