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Slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, Donald Burkett, a Chippewa-Finnish man, begins dictating his family history for the benefit of his children. As old crimes, dreams, wounds, and sacred moments are revived for the members of his family, each is affected in different and profound ways.
42) Someday
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Baxter family series. Sunrise volume 3
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Pressures of the celebrity lifestyle weigh heavily on Dayne and Katy Matthews as they take on separate movie projects. Tabloid rumors talk of trouble and unfaithfulness between the two, but finally something drastic catches Daynes attention and makes him realize the destruction theyre playing with. But will it be too late? The Flanigan family recognizes the deep loss of the Christian Kids Theater program, and they lead a final effort to keep the theater...
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After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale...
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c2001
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373 p. : map ; 25 cm.
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What is a family? Mario Puzo first answered that question in his landmark bestseller The Godfather, with the creation of the Corleones. Now, thirty years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history -- the Borgias. In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome, and reveals to us the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican...
50) The other Alcott
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A tale inspired by the life of Louisa May Alcott's youngest sister finds young May longing to study art outside of the confines of her Concord home before turning down a marriage proposal and pursuing an identity in contrast to the spoiled and worldly character of Amy in her sister's famed novel.
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Hudson family series volume 2
Pub. Date
2000
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359 p. ; 23 cm.
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When Rain Arnold's adoptive mother dies, she is left shattered and completely alone, and flees in desperation to London, where she finds even darker and more devastating secrets about her biological family.
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Catherine LeVendeur mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2002
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352 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
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A haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists-a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability
The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to...
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2013.
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A tale inspired by the lives of Borgia siblings Lucretia and Cesare traces the family's rise in the aftermath of Rodrigo Borgia's rise to the papacy, during which war, a terrifying sexual plague, and the family's notorious reputation forge an intimate bond between brother and sister.
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1996
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276 p. ; 22 cm.
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Married to a workaholic attorney, Lori finds herself and Aunt Dimity searching for her missing father-in-law and her pink flannel bunny, only to discover a centuries-old secret of her husband's family.
57) Sudden moves
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Lucinda Hunter novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
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323 p. ; 21 cm.
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Five years after a little girl lures a reclusive woman out of her isolation, forcing her to once again embrace love, the events of September 11 forever change both of their lives in unexpected and dramatic ways.
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A fictionalized account of Hitler's love affair with his niece, Geli, whose guardian he became after her father's death. He puts her up in his apartment, teaches her to make love his way and shoots her in a fit of jealousy. Officially, she committed suicide. By the author of Atticus.
60) Six of one
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Julia and Louise novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
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354 p. ; 21 cm.
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