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1) Three fates
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When the Lusitania sank, more than 1000 people died. One passenger who survived became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief--though keeping the small silver statue he lifted, a family heirloom to future generations. Now, nearly a century later, that statue, one of a pricelss long-separated set of 3, has been snatched from the Sullivans, and they are determined to recover the treasure and reunite the Three Fates. [From publisher's...
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Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of 4 generations in the life of an American family. [From publisher's description]
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"A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph. The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family that "used to run the world." And when the novel begins in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton appear to have everything--perfect children, good looks, a love everyone...
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"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
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