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"When you were born, I held you in my arms and tied a magical thread around your finger. That thread stretches and snags along the way, through the touchstone moments of a child's life. Through first steps and first stumbles, first love and first broken heart. Through classrooms and graduations, a lifetime of heartache and joy, of wonder and accomplishment. Yet the thread never breaks"--Front jacket flap
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"After Nana passes away, Xavier, his mother and Comet the kitten all head up to Nana’s attic to help clean it up. At first, Xavier is a little nervous. Though there are no dragons up there, it looks like a dragon’s cave — it’s gloomy, dusty and full of cobwebs. But as Xavier explores the attic, he discovers all kinds of interesting things: An old tricycle Two monkeys made out of coconuts A scrapbook full of photographs A rocking horse with...
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"In 1951, a mysterious old woman confronts Pilar Aguirre in the small border town of La Cienega, Texas. The old woman is sure Pilar stole her husband and, in a heated outburst, lays a curse on Pilar and her family. More than forty years later, Lulu Muñoz is dodging chaos at every turn: her troubled father’s moods, his rules, her secret life as [a] singer in a punk band, but most of all her upcoming quinceañera. When her beloved grandmother passes...
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"The Creator gave me dreams. In one dream, the Creator showed me the woman I would shar my life with and seven years later, we met and married. We now have nine children, 20 grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. Often in life, though, we lose our way. For more than a decade now, I have counseled men and women suffering the residual effects of the nation's infamous Indian boarding school system. My father, Warren Frank Petoskey, was one...
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"This novel brings to life a nightmare scenario in the not-too-distant future when scientists undertake a misbegotten scheme to tame the power of the sun. In Burning Sky, three generations of a family confront the life-and-death challenge of global warming. The first, a cantankerous climatologist, raises the alarm. The second, a brilliant scientist with a lust for power that spawns a dictatorship, constructs 'the Cocoon,' a stratospheric shield to...
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"A richly detailed, slow-burning family saga distinguished by incisive psychological insight and masterful research. . . Shattuck is such a good writer, giving us swaths of cultural and historical background as gracefully and intelligently as she parses the emotional depths of her characters. Every note in the novel rings clear and true." — Kate Christensen, New York Times Book Review
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"In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese Revolution, Yunhong grows up in the southern China countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy landlord despite her brother's objections. On the night of her wedding, her brother destroys the marriage before it has even lasted a day and irrevocably changes the shape of Yunhong's family to come; her daughter Yuexin will never know her father. Haunted by a history that she will never fully understand,...
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"It’s 1953, and for Nick Taylor, WWII veteran turned company lawyer, oil is the key to the future. He takes the train into the city for work and returns to the peaceful streets of the suburbs and to his wife, Bet, former codebreaker now housewife, and their two children, Katherine and Harry. Nick comes from humble origins but thanks to his work for American Oil, he can provide every comfort for his family, including Last House, a secluded country...
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