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Generational & Family Sagas
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Search results: Excerpts & reviews from exceptional books with a family saga as a central theme
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Crossers
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Philip
Caputo
Hardcover: 6 Oct 2009
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| When Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family's sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest, where violence is a constant presence.... Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, Crossers is Philip Caputo's most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet. |
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Love and Summer
: A Novel
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William
Trevor
Hardcover: 17 Sep 2009
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| In a characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations by the people of a small Irish town during one long summer. |
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The Music Room
: A Memoir
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William
Fiennes
Hardcover: 14 Sep 2009
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| A bittersweet description of an ancient family house in an enchanted setting, and of growing up with a damaged brother. |
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The Given Day
: A Novel
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Dennis
Lehane
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. |
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Stalin's Children
: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival
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Owen
Matthews
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| An indelible portrait of Russia over seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it. |
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Home
: A Novel
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Marilynne
Robinson
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. |
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The Blue Star
by
Tony
Earley
Hardcover: Mar 2008
Paperback: 26 Aug 2009
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| Jim Glass has fallen in love with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity. |
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After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
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Evie
Wyld
Hardcover: 25 Aug 2009
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| Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid. |
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