When Jana McGuire returns from a mission trip to Africa only to find her pastor husband has taken all their money and left with his secretary, she is devastated. Left with no worldly possessions, Jana is forced to seek help from her...
Conflict of generations
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Author:Peterson, TracieSummary: - Author:Orange, TommySummary:
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - The Pulitze Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty." The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel....
- Author:Spielman, Lori NelsonSummary:
-- New York Times? Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse upon her sister more than two hundred years ago, not one second-born Fontana daughter has found lasting love. Some, like second-born Emilia, the happily-single baker at her...
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Author:Moritsugu, KimSummary:The hiring of a new assistant triggers a power struggle between an aging TV show creator and her former protégée. Rising-star showrunner Stacey McCreedy has one goal: to leave behind her nerd-girl origins and become a power player —...
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Author:PILCHER, RosamundeSummary:Set in London and Cornwall from WWII to the present day, this is the story of the Keeling family and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations.
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Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:"This classic novel, first published in 1860, tells the story of Maggie Tulliver,Intelligent and headstrong but trapped by the conventions of family tradition and rural life, Maggie is one of the great heroines of Victorian...
- Author:Winslow, Don.Summary:
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel , The Force , and The Border In Savages , Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among...
- Author:Hewson, DavidSummary:
At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied...
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Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter fued. When Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, fall in love they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune.
- Author:Brennert, AlanSummary:
Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park's...
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Author:Freeman, RuSummary:One of Reader's Digest Best Summer Reads (US). Set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war, Ru Freeman’s epic novel explores the lives of the diverse families that live on Sal Mal Lane and the heartbreaking ways this once...
- Author:Collins, JoanSummary:
Venetia and Atlanta, daughters of Greek billionaire Nicholas Stephanopolis and Hollywood star Laura Marlowe, could not be more different, with Venetia inheriting her mother's beauty and high spirits, and Atlanta a shy, plain...
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Author:Machado, Ana Maria, Merola, Caroline, Unger, DavidSummary:One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet and, inside, a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother Beatrice, her Bisa Bea, and that...
- Author:Thomas, RosieSummary:
Une grandiose histoire d’amour, de perte et de pardon. L’arrivée de Ruby, une adolescente troublée, provoque un tourbillon dans la maison d’Iris Black, sa grand-mère de 82 ans. Fuyant la relation tendue qu’elle entretient avec sa mère,...
- Author:Beyala, CalixtheSummary:
Boréale n'a que vingt ans, mais des problèmes à revendre, entre un amoureux infidèle, une patronne dépressive, une tante qui veut lui faire porter son enfant et une mère qui la dénigre constamment. Dans ce quartier populaire de Douala...
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Author:Chaikin, Linda LeeSummary:Fils du châtelain de Grimston Way, l’aristocrate Rogan Chantry s’est démené pour gagner son indépendance de Sir Julien Bley et de la Société britannique en Afrique du Sud. À présent, sa recherche d’un mystérieux dépôt d’or, dont l’...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
A new Gilead novel that tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the beloved, erratic, and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister from Gilead, Iowa.
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional, old-frontier morals--in contrast to his stepson, Hud. Homer's grandson Lonnie is torn between emotions for his father and grandfather as he struggles to define his own...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Brilliant, lovable, and...
- Author:Robinson, MarilynneSummary:
In 1956, as a minister approaches the end of his life, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
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