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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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Eventide
by Kent Haruf
Hardcover: May 2004
Paperback: 1 May 2005
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| Haruf returns to the small town of Holt, Colorado to continue the story he started in Plainsong (1999) with an engrossing and profoundly moving novel rich in wisdom, humor and humanity. |
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Girls In Trouble
by Caroline Leavitt
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 1 Apr 2005
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| Leavitt captures the longings of first love, the intense emotions of open adoption and the price of betrayal. |
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The Second Summer of The Sisterhood
by Ann Brashares
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: 28 Dec 2004
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| Brashares returns to the beloved characters she brought to life in her first novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, for a new installment that's equally authentic and engaging. |
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The Amateur Marriage
by Anne Tyler
Hardcover: Jan 2004
Paperback: 26 Oct 2004
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| A rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage—and its consequences, spanning three generations. |
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Present Value
by Sabin Willett
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 14 Sep 2004
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| A provocative, wonderfully entertaining ride—an irreverent, clear-eyed view of the way we live now. |
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The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Hardcover: Sep 2003
Paperback: 1 Sep 2004
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| Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. |
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Final Witness
by Simon Tolkien
Hardcover: Dec 2002
Paperback: 3 Aug 2004
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| The grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien makes a thrilling debut as a novelist in this suspenseful courtroom drama that will have you guessing to the very end. |
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Exit Wounds
by J.A. Jance
Hardcover: Jul 2003
Paperback: 1 Aug 2004
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| A powerful tale that explores the darkest corners of human nature, revealing the grievous injuries inflicted behind locked doors, the unseen wounds that bleed and destroy and never heal. |
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