A finely nuanced, universally resonant portrait of the ties, however strange or awkward, that bind two brothers and their families together through the decades.
Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
Hardcover: Sep 2002
Paperback: Nov 2003
Mistry evokes laughter and tears as he spins the great wheel of human life and charts the soul's confusion and the body's decline, the endless cycle of repeated mistakes and failures of heart, and, yes, the radiant revelations of love.
Far Bright Star
by Robert Olmstead
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: May 2010
Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced soldiers into the mountains of Mexico to hunt down Pancho Villa. But things go terribly wrong; his troop is brutally attacked, and Napoleon, left by his captors to die in the ...
Far From the Tree
: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
by Andrew Solomon
Hardcover: Nov 2012
Paperback: Oct 2013
Far from the Tree is a masterpiece that will rattle our prejudices, question our policies, and inspire our understanding of the relationship between illness and identity. Above all, it will renew and deepen our gratitude for the herculean reach of ...
Farewell, My Queen
by Chantal Thomas
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: Jun 2004
With the skill of a consummate storyteller, Chantal Thomas meticulously re-creates the miniature universe of Versailles, brilliantly juxtaposing its beauty and its dawn-to-dusk ritual with the chaos that erupts.
Farthing
by Jo Walton
Hardcover: Aug 2006
Paperback: Aug 2007
In an alternate history, a radical group overthrew Churchill and made peace with Hitler. Now, eight years later at a country retreat, one of the group is murdered; and suspicion falls on the Jewish husband of one of their adult children.
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