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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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Freedom: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
Hardcover: Aug 2010
Paperback: 27 Sep 2011
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| Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. An indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time. |
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Prospero Regained: Book 3
by L. Jagi Lamplighter
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 17 Dec 2013
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| Prospero, the sorcerer on whose island of exile William Shakespeare set his play, The Tempest, has been captured and imprisoned in Hell, and time is running out for his daughter Miranda and for the great magician himself. |
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A Secret Kept
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 13 Sep 2011
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| From Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the New York Times bestseller Sarah's Key, A Secret Kept plumbs the depths of complex family relationships and the power of a past secret to change everything in the present. |
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The Good Daughters: A Novel
by Joyce Maynard
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 1 Sep 2011
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| The bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives. |
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Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy
by Ken Follett
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: 30 Aug 2011
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| The first novel in The Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. |
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The Memory Palace: A Memoir
by Mira Bartok
Hardcover: Jan 2011
Paperback: 9 Aug 2011
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| The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and the capacity for forgiveness among family. |
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The Cookbook Collector: A Novel
by Allegra Goodman
Hardcover: Jul 2010
Paperback: 12 Jul 2011
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| Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. |
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Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
by Christie Watson
Paperback: 10 May 2011
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| Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away is the witty and beautifully written story of one family’s attempt to survive a new life they could never have imagined, struggling to find a deeper sense of identity along the way. |
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