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The Family Man

by Elinor Lipman

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 324 pages

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A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer's ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, su...

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The Family Markowitz

by Allegra Goodman, Jane Hamilton

Published: 2005-08-22

Paperback: 280 pages

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"The Family Markowitz is one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life to have come our way in quite a while." --Linda Matchan, Boston GlobeIn The Family Markowitz, Allegra Goodman writes with wit and compassion of three generations of Markowitzes making their way in...

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Family Matters

by Rohinton Mistry

Published: 2003-11-18

Paperback: 448 pages

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Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly ...

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Family Pictures

by Sue Miller

Published: 1996-04

Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages

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A Masterful, Engrossing Novel About The Life Of A Large Family That Is Deeply Bounded By The Stranger In Their Midst -- An Autistic Child The whole world could not have broken the spirit and strength of the Eberhardt family of 1948. Lainey is a wonderful if slightly eccentric mother. Davi...

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Family Pieces

by Misa Rush

Published: 2010-11-27

Paperback: 266 pages

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What do you do when your once charmed life falls to pieces? Karsen Woods' life seems charmed from her hunkalicious boyfriend to her picture-perfect midwestern roots. Away at college, even the necklace she wears serves as a constant connection home - a family tradition created when her grandfather handmade...

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Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America

by Beryl Satter

Published: 2010-03-02

Paperback: 528 pages

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?Gripping . . . This painstaking portrayal of the human costs of financial racism is the most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North.??David Garrow, The Washington PostThe ?promised land? for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became ...

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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

by D.T. Max

Published: 2007-09-11

Paperback: 336 pages

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For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a...

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Family Ties

by Danielle Steel

Published: 2011-07-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Annie Ferguson was one of Manhattan's brightest young architects. But overnight she became mother to her sister's three orphaned children. It wasn't the life she'd planned, but one that rewarded her tenfold for every sacrifice she'd had to make. Now, at forty-two, with a satisfying career and a fulfilling...

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Family Tree

by Barbara Delinsky

Published: 2007-10-30

Paperback: 400 pages

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For as long as she can remember, Dana Clarke has longed for the stability of home and family. Now she has married a man she adores, whose heritage can be traced back to the Mayflower, and she is about to give birth to their first child. But what should be the happiest day of her life becom...

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The Family Tree: A Novel

by Carole Cadwalladr

Published: 2005-11-29

Paperback: 400 pages

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When Rebecca Monroe—married to Alistair, a scientist who doesn’t believe in fate, but rather genetic disposition—discovers that she is pregnant, she begins to question what makes us who we are and whether her own precarious family history will play a role in her future.For Rebecca, t...