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6) The promise
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Empires fall, love survives. When Michael, a brilliant medical student, meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between Michael and Ana's boyfriend Chris, a famous American photojournalist dedicated to exposing political truth. As the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war torn chaos, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to get their people to safety and survive themselves....
Author
Publisher
Maiden Lane Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary coming-of-age story--and survival story--of an Armenian teenager forced to live in a tribal culture among Kurdish peasants and Turkish beys. He rose from "infidel" servant to trusted secretary and excaped captivity, the only person in his adoptive trive who could read and write"--Jacket flap.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper editor, an engineering student, and a diplomat. Together they formed one of the most effective assassination squads in history. They named their operation Nemesis, after the Greek goddess of retribution. The assassins were survivors, men defined...
9) There was and there was not: a journey through hate and possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and beyond
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a writer coming to terms with the issues that drove her halfway across the world. In this far-reaching quest, told with eloquence and power, Toumani probes universal questions: how to belong to a community without conforming to it, how to acknowledge a tragedy without exploiting it, and most importantly how to remember a genocide without perpetuating the kind of hatred that gave rise to it in the first place.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard fragments of her grandfather Stepan's story, of how he was swept up in the deadly mass deportation of Armenians during World War I and of how he miraculously managed to escape. Longing for a fuller picture of Stepan's life--and the lost home her family fled--Dawn travels alone to Turkey and Syria using his journals as a guide. She reconstructs her grandfather's odyssey to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire, where...
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