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Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chroni - Vladimir Nabokov
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love st... -
Across the Mersey - Annie Groves
ReviewPraise for Annie Groves:‘An engrossing story.’ My Weekly‘A stirring and heartrending family saga...Against a backdrop of change when the suffragette movement was coming to th... -
A tree grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
SUMMARY:A novel about a young girl, her family and friends, and their life in the slum section of Brooklyn in the early years of the twentieth century. -
A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This memoir/family history brims over with riches: metaphors and poetry, drama and comedy, failure and success, unhappy marriages and a wealth... -
A Short History of Tractors in - Marina Lewycka
SUMMARY: An amusing, astonishing debut . . . about how a family learns to let go of the past and live and love in the present. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution With this wise, tend... -
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
SUMMARY:Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colorful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun, ... -
A Secret Kept - Tatiana de Rosnay
EDITORIAL REVIEW: This stunning new novel from Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Sarah’s Key*, plumbs the depths of complex family relationshi... -
A Question of Belief - Donna Leon
SUMMARY: As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the mountains. For Ispettore Vianello, ho... -
A Place Called Freedom - Ken Follett
SUMMARY:A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his w... -
A Death in the Family - James Agee
Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impac...