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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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Zebra Forest
by Adina Rishe Gewirtz
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| In an extraordinary debut novel, an escaped fugitive upends everything two siblings think they know about their family, their past, and themselves. |
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American Dream Machine
by Matthew Specktor
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| American Dream Machine is the story of two talent agents and their three troubled boys, heirs to Hollywood royalty. It's a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, the movie business, and the sundry sea changes that have shaped Hollywood and, by extension, American life |
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The World Without You: A Novel
by Joshua Henkin
Hardcover: Jun 2012
Paperback: 9 Apr 2013
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| From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony, a moving new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy. |
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The House at the End of Hope Street
by Menna van Praag
Hardcover: 4 Apr 2013
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| Filled with a colorful and unforgettable cast of literary figures, The House at the End of Hope Street is a charming, whimsical novel of hope and feminine wisdom. |
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
Hardcover: Apr 2013
Paperback: 24 Sep 2013
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| What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? |
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The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir
by Wenguang Huang
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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| Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China. |
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The Burgess Boys
by Elizabeth Strout
Hardcover: 26 Mar 2013
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| Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literature. |
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The End of the Point
by Elizabeth Graver
Hardcover: Mar 2013
Paperback: 15 Feb 2014
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| A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the dramatic changes in the lives of three generations of one remarkable family, and the summer place that both shelters and isolates them. |
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