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1) The carousel
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The Greys, pillars of their community, are being torn apart as evil simmers below the surface of their seemingly admirable American family. Before the ordeal runs its ugly course, someone will be dead.
2) Homecoming
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On a property in New York State, Annette Byrne, 85, organizes a reunion to bring peace to her warring family. They include two sons who are involved in a court case and do not speak to each other, a granddaughter whose inter-faith marriage is on the skids and another granddaughter who is divorcing.
3) Whispers
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In Whispers, Belva Plain shows she has no equal as a chronicler of twentieth-century American life. Here she creates one of the most realistic portraits of a marriage in recent fiction, a tale of the nineties told with shocking authenticity.
4) Random winds
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The Farrells are a proud American family and Random Winds is the forceful saga of their ambitious and love-torn lives from the days of the Depression to the present. Enoch, a poor country doctor, is succeeded by his son Martin, a young med student whose ambition is to rise above the role of rural physician. WHen Martin meets Mary Fern, love and ambition are united. Mary's wealthy family has the means to launch Martin's career as a surgeon. But Martin's...
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After graduating from law school, Robb McDaniel joins a small, prestigious law firm and marries the senior partner's daughter, leaving behind his high school sweetheart, but as the years pass and Robb's life becomes more complicated, he begins to regret giving up the simple, small town life he could have had with the only woman he ever really loved.
6) Secrecy
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Charlotte Dawes, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a distinguished New England couple, has her innocence stripped from her by a violent act, and the family's decision to hide what happened marks the beginning of a cover-up that changes the lives of everyone involved.
7) Daybreak
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Margaret and Arthur Crawfield discover that the son they love dearly who is now dying is not their child. Suspecting a hospital mix-up, the Crawfields feel compelled to search for their biological child who has grown up in another home, although they know this may tear apart another family.
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Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
9) Promises
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Margaret Crane's life falls apart when she learns that Adam, her husband of almost twenty years, is having an extra-marital affair, and her misery is compounded by the rift that occurs between her and Nina, an orphaned cousin raised by the Cranes, over Nina's relationship with a married man.
10) The golden cup
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Werner family saga volume 2
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The story of the passionate, difficult marriage of a Jewish couple in New York in a time of political fervor leading up to World War I. Young Henrietta DeRivera is uncomfiortable with her life of tea services, gossip and an arranged marriage to a scion of a Sephardic Jewish family. ---
11) Harvest
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Werner family saga volume 4
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Continues the Werner family saga. Iris, the daughter of Anna and Paul, sees her fragile marriage falter and Paul, consumed by a lifelong secret, still longs for the family he has lost.
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Donald Wolfe, a 25-year-old North Dakota native, comes to New York City in 1968 to practice law. Five years later, he meets and falls for the captivating Lillian Morris. Marrying in haste, he repents big time when Lillian reveals herself to be disturbingly erratic. After she becomes pregnant, the two divorce, but when Donald judges his daughter, Bettina, to be neglected, he kidnaps her. Taking to the road, he invents a new past for himself and adopts...
13) After the fire
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Hyacinth's idyllic marriage ends in divorce and she loses custody of her children when, in an act of jealousy, she burns her husband's office building to the ground, killing a worker.
14) Evergreen
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Werner family saga volume 1
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Born into poverty and fear, Anna is desperate to leave her native Poland. Determined to make something of herself, Anna moves into a cramped New York slum and finds a job in a sweatshop. When two very different men fall in love with her, Anna is destined to be forever torn in love and loyalty.
15) Looking back
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The friendship among Norma, Cecile, and Amanda does not survive the post-college years after Amanda marries Norma's brother to escape a life of poverty, then embarks on an affair with her father-in-law; and Norma undermine's Cecile's husband in an attempt to boost her own husband's career.
17) Treasures
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Connie, Eddie, and Lara Osborne, three siblings from Ohio, leave their provincial home behind following their mother's death and find love, wealth, and success in the world.
19) Crossroads
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Cassie Wright, owner of Wright Glassworks, takes in one year old Gwen after a tragic accident and raises her as her own. Jewel Fairbanks enters the lives of Cassie and Gwen. Jewel envies Gwen. Both Jewel and Gwen marry, Jewel marries a shrewd businessman and Gwen a honest hardworking man who works for the company that Jewel's husband owns.
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The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America, determined to shape his own destiny, and heads west to build what is to become one of the country's great retail companies, in a richly textured novel spanning three generations and the history of twentieth-century America.
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