Shafak, Elif
Summary: Turkish teen Asya is coming of age under the wing of her tattoo-parlor owner mother and her three aunts, befriending a cousin from America, and discovering a secret that links her family to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHABoyadjian, Maral
Summary: It is 1913 and late summer in the Ottoman Empire. The sun rises, full and golden, atop a lush, centuries-old village tucked into the highlands where the blood-red poppies bloom. Outside the village leader's home, the sound of voices carries past the grapevines to the lane where Anno, his youngest daughter, slips out unseen. She heads to a secret meeting place. She forgets that enemies surround...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salor Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYDe Bernières, Louis.
Summary: During the finals days of the Ottoman Empire, the young men of the village are instructed to battle the invading forces during the Great War and destroy the peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEBLa Valley, Josanne.
Summary: Life has been hard for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime, so when an American offers to buy all the baskets she can make in three weeks, Mehrigul strives for a better future for herself and her family despite her father's opposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LAVAlexander, Neely Tubati
Summary: "A delightful Caribbean-set novel about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ATRKamalyan, Astrid
Summary: "Little Tato sneaks a few cherry plums before racing off to help Bábo--her grandmother--with a favorite chore. Each year Tato looks forward to washing the family rugs. With bubbles and suds floating like clouds and snowflakes, Tato and her siblings help Bábo scrub the rugs clean. With lively text and vivid illustrations, Astrid Kamalyan brings her charming childhood memories to life by inviting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2023
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Summary: "When Jenny White arrived in Turkey in 1975 to pursue a master's degree in Ankara, she had no idea that the country and her university were already embroiled in a vicious civil war. She learned quickly. In the simple everyday act of attending class, she encountered armed personnel carriers, bullets, bombs, and other dangers. By the time she left in 1978, the polarized fury of street violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHIKenah, Katharine
Summary: "With five Thanksgiving dinners to eat, there's going to be one very stuffed turkey!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books 2015
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE KENSummary: A small Armenian village faces tough times after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hamo is a widower with a small military pension and three useless sons. While making one of his daily visits to his wife's grave he meets Nina and the two begin to date.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VODWerfel, Franz
Summary: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Franz Werfel's masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian genocide. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains along the coast of present-day Turkey and Syria chose not to obey the deportation order of the Turkish government. Instead, they fortified a plateau on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WERBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Presents the parallel stories of a young woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier while aiding victims of the Armenian genocide in the early twentieth century, and a young woman who researches her Armenian heritage and discovers a terrible family secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION BOHLondon, Joan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOHBohjalian, Chris
Summary: "Parallel stories of a woman who falls in love with an Armenian soldier during the Armenian Genocide and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bohjalian 2012Summary: A German-born woman flees from her oppressive marriage in Istanbul, taking her son with her. She hopes to find a better life with her family in Berlin, but her unexpected arrival creates intense conflicts. Her family is trapped in their conventions. They are torn between their love for her and the traditional values of their community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WHEFalwell, Cathryn.
Summary: A child observes wild turkeys through the seasons. Includes facts about this classic American bird.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dawn Publications 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALRoe, Monica M.
Summary: On a family hunting trip, twelve-year-old April misses her grandfather but hopes to bag the biggest turkey, using Grandjack's lucky box call.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ROESilvano, Wendi
Summary: "Everyone loves Halloween candy--even Turkey. But how can he and his barnyard friends get any when the farmers only give it out to children? With a costume, of course! As his pals look on, Turkey comes up with one clever costume after another. Each trick gets better and better...but will Turkey and his friends end up with any treats?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Lions 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SILVoskuni, Taleen
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOSSummary: It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSKhoury, Raymond
Summary: Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom, naked, covered in strange tattoos, to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for 300 years, ever since its fall, along with all of Europe, to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KHOPamuk, Orhan
Summary: Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he’d hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul—“the center of the world”—and is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father’s trade, selling boza (a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAMSava, Ayegül
Summary: "After her mother's death, Nunu moves from Istanbul to a small apartment in Paris. One day outside of a bookstore, she meets M., an older British writer whose novels about Istanbul Nunu has always admired. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris and talking late into the night. What follows is an unusual friendship of eccentric correspondence and long walks around the city. M. is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019