Saga
Openwork
Using the image of close needlework – where patterns are formed by holes in the cloth – Bernardi tells a…
Mama Fela’s Girls
Mama Fela’s Girls is a multi-generational tale in a fresh setting: Santa Lucίa, a small town in New Mexico in…
The Road from Chapel Hill
The Road from Chapel Hill offers readers a fascinating and blessedly stereotype-free drama about life in divided North Carolina during…
House Divided
The Currain family saga begins in 1783 with Tony Currain, and moves through over 1,000 pages past the time of…
The Ruby in Her Navel
Editors' choice
Set during the brief but glittering rule of the Norman kings, this beautifully written novel opens in Palermo where Arab,…
Cold Rock River
In Vietnam-era rural Georgia, insecure Adie falls in love with the most popular boy in high school. She is thrilled…
Hawk’s Pursuit
The third volume of O’Banyon’s Hawk Crest saga finds the youngest of four children, eleven-year-old Jena Leigh, in mortal danger…
Turn of the Tide
It is always interesting reading a sequel when you haven’t read the first book. In this case, it doesn’t really…
The Gods of Newport
In Gilded Age Newport, wealth and social status are all; wars are fought on tennis courts and in ballrooms; and…
Queen of Swords
Sara Donati revives the sweeping, no-holds-barred historical sagas of the 1970s and 1980s in Queen of Swords, the fifth book…
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