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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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Calling Me Home
by Julie Kibler
Hardcover: 12 Feb 2013
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| Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship. |
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The Newlyweds: A Novel
by Nell Freudenberger
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 12 Feb 2013
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| A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals. |
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A Good American: A Novel
by Alex George
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 5 Feb 2013
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| An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home. |
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Canada
by Richard Ford
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 22 Jan 2013
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| A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family. |
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The Aviator's Wife
by Melanie Benjamin
Hardcover: 15 Jan 2013
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| In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. |
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis
Hardcover: Jan 2013
Paperback: 8 Oct 2013
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| A debut of extraordinary distinction: through the trials of one unforgettable family, Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration, a story of love and bitterness and the promise of a new America. |
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Wish You Were Here
by Graham Swift
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 8 Jan 2013
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| A hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core, Wish You Were Here also looks, inevitably, to a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, it brilliantly transforms the stuff of headlines into heart-wrenching personal truth. |
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By Blood: A Novel
by Ellen Ullman
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 24 Dec 2012
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| The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter |
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