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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 Music Room: A Memoir
by William Fiennes
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 13 Sep 2010
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| A bittersweet description of an ancient family house in an enchanted setting, and of growing up with a damaged brother. |
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The Invisible Mountain
by Carolina De Robertis
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 10 Aug 2010
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| From Perón's glittering Buenos Aires to the rustic hills of Rio de Janeiro, from the haven of a Montevideo butchershop to U.S. embassy halls, The Invisible Mountain celebrates a nation’s spirit, the will to survive in the most desperate of circumstances, and the fierce and complex connections between mother and daughter. |
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Doghead: A Novel
by Morten Ramsland
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 6 Jul 2010
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| From a fiercely funny Danish John Irving, a bighearted, epic story of mad dogs, naughty boys, strange relatives, and family secrets. |
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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
by Brigid Pasulka
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 18 May 2010
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| Whimsical, wise, beautiful, magical, and sometimes even heartbreaking, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True weaves together two remarkable stories, reimagining half a century of Polish history through the legacy of one unforgettable love affair. |
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South of Broad
by Pat Conroy
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 4 May 2010
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| The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship. |
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
by Katherine Howe
Hardcover: Jun 2009
Paperback: 6 Apr 2010
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| A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history - the Salem witch trials. |
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Cutting For Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Hardcover: Feb 2009
Paperback: 26 Jan 2010
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One of BookBrowse's Top 3 Favorite Books of 2009
An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others set in 1960s & 1970s Ethiopia and 1980s America. |
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The Given Day: A Novel
by Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Sep 2008
Paperback: 1 Sep 2009
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| Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. |
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