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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family.
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"1940: When the island of Guernsey is invaded by the Nazis, two sisters are determined to rebel in any way they can. But when forced to take in a German soldier, they are shocked to find a familiar face on their doorstep - a childhood friend who has now become their enemy. 2016: Two generations later, Lucy returns to Guernsey after the death of a distant cousin. As she prepares the old family house for sale, Lucy discovers a box of handwritten note,...
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"Frederica Kimball had been waiting for the day when Nicholas LeBeck would fall as desperately in love with her as she had always been with him. Nick didn't know what had hit him...sweet, adorable Freddie, whom he'd always loved like a kid sister, was suddenly looking and acting like a sensual woman. The waiting was over, but the wanting had just begun!"--Amazon.com.
4) Deep river
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"In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia River, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington, where the first harvesting of the colossal old-growth forests begets rapid development, and radical labor movements begin...
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2016
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The Bondman (1890) is a novel written by British author Hall Caine. Inspired by the epic scale of the ancient Icelandic sagas as well as the Biblical tale of Jacob and Esau, Caine sought to explore the narrative possibilities of brotherhood and fate while paying homage to the historical link between Iceland and the Isle of Man. Born to a Manx father, Caine also had a personal connection to the novel's setting.
The story shifts between the perspectives...
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All the Button Street children deserve a good home...
Alone and on the streets after their mother ends up in hospital, Charlie has promised his little sister Maisie he'll never let her feel frightened again. That promise is hard to keep when Maisie falls ill.
Hope comes in the shape of Susan and the other nurses at the local hospital. Times are tough and lately they've seen even more children come through their doors who need kindness and a loving...
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One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
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Daisy Bach, a therapist, has always been certain that she did not want to have children. Her childhood experiences with an overbearing and controlling mother, Verity, who tore the family apart, further cemented this decision. However, at the age of forty-five, Daisy finds herself reconsidering this choice.
Unfortunately, her decision to try and conceive is complicated by her mother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. With strained family relationships,...
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One lie changes a family's path for generations-and finally brings them back to Ireland, in this saga by the author of The Devil's Own.
In May 1917 the Americans sailed into Cork to join the Great War. When they left two years later, they brought their war brides with them, including Lizzie McCarthy. Still reeling from the tragic death of her sister Maggie, Lizzie leaves Ireland hoping for a better life with her new husband Ed Anderson.
Lizzie...
10) The promise
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"A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the...
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From the embers of the Second World War rose a family as ruthless as the forces that sought to destroy them. Guided by its indomitable matriarch, the Morfawitzes seek to build their own Olympus on the New York City skyline, in this engrossing tale from a winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel.
After fleeing from Nazis in Germany-just as her parents fled from Cossacks in Russia-Hadassah Morfawitz arrives in New York to begin her own dynasty,...
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In the decade after World War I, Jules Bouchard prepares to leave controlling interest in his global munitions enterprise to his son Armand. But the inheritance comes with a warning: Armand's ruthless brothers, Emile and Christopher, will be gunning for him. It's not long before Christopher commits financial treachery in an effort to unseat his brother. Worse, he hatches a plot involving his sister, Celeste, whose innocence he had vowed to always...
13) Naam
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In the high-stakes world of ruthless business tycoon Arnav Oberoi, where billions are made and lost at the snap of a finger, his extravagant wedding day takes an unexpected turn when his father is involved in a life-altering accident. A promise to his dying father forces him to care for a troubled teenager. The illegitimate Oberoi Heir, Aditya Oberoi, a boy he had never acknowledged. The boy shatters Arnav's carefully crafted world. His turbulent...
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One magical story across seven extraordinary generations-
-filled with love and faith and hope
Twins born beneath an enchanted tree split by lightning-
-an enchanted door, enchanted table, enchanted bench
A knife thrower, pistol duel, an heirloom opal ring-
-spectral soliloquies and premonitions that hit the mark
An escaped circus tiger, a runaway slave and conductor-
-united as brothers on the Underground Railroad
A house ablaze,...
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CiaránMoney. Family. Power.Everything else is a waste of Ciarán's time.As the eldest son of the O'Hanlon Family, Ciarán knows it's his responsibility to carry the weight of their sins on his shoulders. He will do anything to protect them at any cost. When his sister, Eevee, finds more trouble than she bargained for, Ciarán's world turns upside down by the secrets she holds.Will tragedy bring them together or divide them forever? PatrickI'm known...
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The beginning of the 20th century was great for Italians in the north. Wealth and prosperity were everywhere and the country seemed to be doing well. The poorer citizens that occupied much of South Italy, however, weren't having the same experience. It was for this reason that fourteen million Italians emigrated to America between 1880 and 1914.
The D'Imperio family was one of those families. Yet the journey wasn't what one might expect. Separation,...
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"When their self-made millionaire, Dust Bowl orphan father becomes the central figure in a national scandal, his four middle-aged, greedy and failed-at-life children return home to Omaha to have one final confrontation. It is a literary suspense novel about the decline and consequence of patriarchal society. It is also an intricate family saga of aspiration and betrayal"--
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A new stand-alone saga set in Yorkshire around out the outbreak of the second world war and the unlikely relationship between a master and servant. As a small child, Nellie Peace was always dreaming but sensed her mother's rejection.
Abandoned and sent into service at Beaumont House at an early age, Nellie is lost and alone until she meets the unpredictable and reclusive artist, Lucas Harrington and falls in love with him.
This unlikely association...
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Nothing will stop the The Tobacco Girls not even war...
BRISTOL 1940.
The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives more unpredictable.
Bridget Milligan's big, happy family fragments when her siblings are evacuated to North Devon, then a letter from America further fills her with dismay.
Maisie Miles safe haven from both Eddie Bridgeman and her father...
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Bristol 1939. School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father, a small-time crook, has an ulterior motive for insisting she gets a job at the W. D. & H. O. Wills tobacco factory but keeps it to herself.
She's befriended by effervescent Phyllis Mason and kind-hearted Bridget Milligan who take pity on her and take Maisie under their wing.
But beneath their happy go lucky exteriors they all harbour dreams and worries about what the future holds.
Engaged...
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