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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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The Godfather Returns
by Mark Winegardner
Hardcover: Nov 2004
Paperback: 30 Aug 2005
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| The missing years from the greatest crime saga of all time...it's 1955 and Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York's crime families but now he must consolidate his power, save his marriage and take his family into legitimate business. |
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The First Desire
by Nancy Reisman
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 30 Aug 2005
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| Set in Buffalo, New York in the 1930s and '40s, The First Desire is a book of great emotional power that brings to life the weave of love, grief, tradition, and desire that binds a family together. |
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Before You Know Kindness
by Chris Bohjalian
Hardcover: Oct 2004
Paperback: 9 Aug 2005
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| A family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love. |
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The Falls
by Joyce Carol Oates
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 1 Aug 2005
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| 'This big, enthralling novel recaptures the gift for Dreiserian realism that distinguishes such Oates triumphs as What I Lived For, and We Were the Mulvaneys. It's her best ever, and a masterpiece.' Kirkus Reviews. |
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The Laments: A Novel
by George Hagen
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 12 Jul 2005
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| Meet the Laments—the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of Hagen’s exuberant debut novel. |
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Birds Without Wings
by Louis de Bernieres
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 28 Jun 2005
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| Epic in its narrative sweep, steeped in historical fact yet profoundly humane, and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail. This is de Bernières' first book since Captain Corelli's Mandolin. |
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Above The Thunder
by Renée Manfredi
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 10 May 2005
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| The mesmerizing story of three generations of women confronting the emotional turmoil of abandonment, and the men with whom their lives converge. |
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Crossing California
by Adam Langer
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 3 May 2005
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| Poignant, ambitious, and tremendously fun, Crossing California is a novel about two generations of family and friendship; set in Chicago, from November 1979 through January 1981. |
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