Product 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, he eventually returned to Cavanaugh Street after an early retirement...read more

Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. The Double Bind perfectly conjured the Roaring Twenties on Long Island—and a young social worker’s descent into madness. And Skeletons at the Feast chronicled the last six months of World War Two in Poland and Germany with nail-biting authenticity. As The Washington Post Book World has noted, Bohjalian writes “the sorts of books people stay awake all night to finish.”In his fifteenth book, The Sandcastle Girls, he brings us on a very different kind of journey. This spellbinding 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. The First World War is spreading across Europe, and she has volunteered on behalf of the Boston-based Friends of Armenia to deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian genocide. There, Elizabeth becomes friendly with Armen, a young Armenian engineer who has already lost his wife and infant daughter. When Armen leaves Aleppo to join the British Army in Egypt, he begins to write Elizabeth letters, and comes to realize that he has fallen in love with the wealthy, young American woman who is so different from the wife he lost.Flash forward to the present, where we meet Laura Petrosian, a novelist living in suburban New York. Although her grandparents’ ornate Pelham home was affectionately nicknamed the “Ottoman Annex,” Laura has never really given her Armenian heritage much thought. But when an old friend calls, claiming to have seen a newspaper photo of Laura’s grandmother promoting an exhibit at a Boston museum, Laura embarks on a journey back through her family’s history that reveals love, loss—and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.

Product Description: Flowering JudasJane Haddam  Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown with barely a trace and was never 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 fliers around town every week, hounding law enforcement agencies...read more

Product Description: Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattatuck, New York, never to be heard from again. His mother kept the search for her son alive -- paying for a billboard overlooking the community college, putting up flyers, and hounding law enforcement...read more

Product Description: Finalist for the ALA's 2012 Rainbow Books! Reeling from his mother's suicide, seventeen-year-old Alex Bainbridge retreats from the world around him, often finding solace on a secluded island behind his house. As an Armenian-American living in a small Southern town, Alex struggles to fit in...read more

Product Description: The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the: 2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship 2005 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction 2006 Whiting Writers? Award ?A new work of obsession, tragedy, and the unpredictable trajectories of the heart...read more

Product Description: This broad-shouldered work of fiction the follow-up to Bloodvine, Aris Janigian s acclaimed first novel continues the tale of Andy Demerjian, the college-educated farmer. Set in California s Central Valley, and ranging in time from World War II to the drug wars of the 1960s, Riverbig is a poignant portrayal of life in rustic mid-century America...read more

Product Description: Longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and clashing cultural identities in the mystical and mysterious city of Istanbul. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery...read more

Margaret's Harbor, a small, exclusive island off the coast of Massachussets, has been disrupted for weeks by the antics of a group of young celebrities. Kendra Rhode, of the extremely wealthy Rhode family, is the ring leader and part-year resident on the island. Two of her cohorts, Arrow Normand, an aging teen pop idol, and Marcey Mandret, another of the same vintage, have been acting out publicly - drunken, disorderly public behavior eaten up by the press. During one of the most devastating blizzards in decades, Normand staggers up to a local house, covered in blood and incoherently drunk. Her latest boy toy is found shot dead in the front seat of a crashed truck. The only suspect in the crime is Normand herself and she was apparently far too out of it to remember what actually happened that night.  Former F.B.I. agent Gregor Demarkian, fleeing from the preparations for his own wedding, is hired to review the case against Normand. What he finds is a case with little evidence, twisted by an out-of-control media and the cult of celebrity surrounding the three young women, and a mare's nest of motives, in what may be the most confusing, twisted case of his entire career.

Product Description: When Philadelphia's right-wing-ranting radio host Drew Harrigan is arrested for possession of illegal pain killers, he implicates a homeless man, Sherman Markey, in the drug buys, and is soon checked into a locked rehabilitation facility...read more

Enjoying a life of wealth, talent, and promiscuity, Liv basks in her devotion to her clothier father and psychiatrist uncle, while Joy obsessively plans out every aspect of her life, and Sara observes inexplicable patterns everywhere she looks. A first novel.

When a church in his Philadelphia neighborhood is bombed, Gregor Demarkian, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, and a group of conspiracy theorists investigate a suspected group of Illuminati, a violent faction that would take over the world. Reprint.

Ani Silver's peaceful life is shattered after a series of events force her to investigate her Armenian and Jewish heritage, prompting Ani to deal with murder, retribution, and her emerging new identity.

Product Description: Bloodvine is the tale of one man's struggle with the strange and seemingly impenetrable secrets that plague and intrigue every family. Reconstructing the stories of his father and estranged uncle, a son--two generations removed from the Armenian genocide--comes to comprehend the history of a people...read more

Gregor Demarkian, the former head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, is asked to investigate after a woman's body turns up in Philadelphia's St. Anselm's church, her husband, a local parishioner, commits suicide, and it is discovered that the woman, a severe diabetic, did not die of natural causes but rather had been the victim of arsenic poisoning. Reprint.

Grigor enjoys hearing his grandfather talk about Armenia and tradition while they work on rugs together, but only after his grandfather's death does Grigor understand the meaning of the stories.

The death of a glamorous and fabulously wealthy debutante finds Gregor Demarkian investivating a quiet Connecticut town to find troubling passions lurking just under the surface. Reprint.

(view table of contents)

Something is amiss with wedded bliss in the affluent community of Fox Hill Run, where former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian investigates a wife's shooting of her husband amid a mysterious series of pipe-bombings. By the author of Not a Creature Was Stirring.

Attending the hundredth birthday party of a Hollywood star, Bennis Hannaford and ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian are forced to discover which of the star's many flashy guests is trying to kill her. Reprint.

Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian races against time to prevent a Valentine's Day murder that would keep the perpetrator of a long-unsolved crime secret forever. Reprint. PW. K.

As the residents of Bethlehem, Vermont, prepare to stage the town's annual Nativity play, local outsider Tisha Verek is gunned down with a .22 rifle. By the author of Mother Superior. Reprint.

While trying to make it through elementary school in Racine, Wisconsin, a thirteen-year-old Armenian American boy must come to terms with his heritage, his parents' expectations, and his own uncertainty about what he wants from life

Product Description: Book by Bedrosian, Margaret