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• The Bastard of Istanbul

  Shafak, Elif, 1971-

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gendarme

  Mustian, Mark, 1959-

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  Seen by those around him as a virtually senile nonagenarian, Emmet Conn is haunted by vivid memories of a past he and others deliberately worked to forget, a situation that compels him to seek out the love of his life to beg her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

  Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945

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• As the Poppies Bloomed

  a Novel of Love in a Time of Fear

  Boyadjian, Maral,

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• Orhan's Inheritance

  a Novel

  Ohanesian, Aline,

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  Orhan is the heir to a rug empire. When his grandfather dies and leaves everything to a stranger, however, Orhan sets out to find out why. The answer takes him through cultural memory and one of the tragedies of the 20th Century.

• Rise the Euphrates

  Edgarian, Carol

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  After witnessing the slaughter of her family and many of her people, a young Armenian woman emigrates to America, where she inadvertently infuses her only daughter with a crippling legacy of anger, shame, and a survivor's guilt.

• Our Lady of the Nile

  Mukasonga, Scholastique

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• Maus

  a Survivor's Tale

  Spiegelman, Art

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• The Farming of Bones

  a Novel

  Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

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• Forgotten Fire

  Bagdasarian, Adam

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  Based on a true story, the book follows Vahan Kendarian as his privileged world collapses in the face of the Armenian Holocaust. Kendarian will become an orphan, prisoner, beggar, servant and stowaway in his struggle to survive. It is also…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Skylark Farm

  Arslan, Antonia

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  In 1915, Yerwant is planning to reunite with his family in Turkey after years at boarding school. As the joyous preparations unfold, however, the Great War intervenes, and Yerwant’s family faces a brutal odyssey.