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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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I Married You for Happiness
by Lily Tuck
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 11 Sep 2012
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| Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. |
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American Dervish: A Novel
by Ayad Akhtar
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life. |
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Tiger Hills: A Novel
by Sarita Mandanna
Hardcover: Mar 2011
Paperback: 28 Aug 2012
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| Told in rich, lyrical prose and set against the background of a changing society, Tiger Hills is a sweeping saga about one woman's determination to live life on her own terms --- and a riveting novel about the choices we make in the name of family, nation, and love. |
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The Prophet
by Michael Koryta
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: 13 Aug 2013
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| Michael Koryta, long hailed as one of the best young thriller writers at work today, has written his greatest novel ever - an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him "one of the best of the best." |
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This Is How It Ends: A Novel
by Kathleen MacMahon
Hardcover: 7 Aug 2012
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| Bruno, an American, has come to Ireland to search for his roots. Addie, an out-of-work architect, is recovering from heartbreak while taking care of her infirm father. When their worlds collide, they experience a connection unlike any they've previously felt, but soon a tragedy will test them - and their new-found love - in ways they never imagined possible. |
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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
by Adam Johnson
Hardcover: Jan 2012
Paperback: 7 Aug 2012
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| An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. |
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The Secret History of Costaguana: A Novel
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 7 Aug 2012
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| Tragic and despairing, comic and insightful, The Secret History of Costaguana is a masterpiece of historical invention. |
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Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
by Paul Hendrickson
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 24 Jul 2012
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| A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. |
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