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Generational & Family Sagas
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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts & reviews from exceptional books with a family saga as a central theme
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Brother, I'm Dying
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 9 Sep 2008
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| From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph. |
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Brooklyn Bridge
by Karen Hesse
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 2 Sep 2008
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| Joseph Michtom always considered himself lucky, but life changed irrevocably when his parents created the first teddy bear. Through the warmth, the sadness, the frustration, and the laughter of one big, colorful family, brooklyn Bridge is a stunning story of the lucky and the unlucky, and reminds us that all our lives are fragile, precious, and connected. |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: A Novel
by Junot Diaz
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 2 Sep 2008
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| Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations. |
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The Pirate's Daughter
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 5 Aug 2008
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| In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940’s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. |
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Consumption
by Kevin Patterson
Hardcover: Aug 2007
Paperback: 8 Jul 2008
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| Born on the tundra in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at the age of ten, she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and evacuated to a southern sanitarium. When she returns home six years later, she finds a radically different world, where the traditionally rootless tribes have uneasily congregated in small communities. And Victoria has become a stranger to her family and her culture. |
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
by Maggie O'Farrell
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 2 Jun 2008
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| Maggie O’Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires struggle with the imposition of social mores. This haunting story explores the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, and the way truth can change everything. |
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Nefertiti: A Novel
by Michelle Moran
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: 27 May 2008
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| Love, betrayal, political unrest, plague, and religious conflict — Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life in vivid detail. Fast-paced and historically accurate, it is the dramatic story of two unforgettable women living through a remarkable period in history. |
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Yellowcake: A Novel
by Ann Cummins
Hardcover: Mar 2007
Paperback: 30 Apr 2008
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| A story of two families thirty years after the closing of the uranium mill near which they once made their homes. When one of the children becomes involved in a group seeking damages for those harmed by the radioactive dust that contaminated their world, their past and present collide for this eclectic cast of characters. |
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