Saga
Come Rain, Come Shine
Ireland in the early 1960s: Savvy, sophisticated Clare Hamilton returns from France to her native Armagh to marry Andrew, her…
The Passing Bells
Readers should be forgiven if they delve into Phillip Rock’s former bestseller and initially find themselves picturing Downton Abbey’s famous…
Summerset Abbey
In the first of a series set in England before World War I, Prudence Tate, an orphan, shares the loving…
Through Glass Eyes
Through Glass Eyes is a family saga set in Yorkshire, starting in 1896. The author republished it independently after its…
Raised from the Ground
Editors' choice
Nobel Prize Laureate José Saramago’s (1922-2010) most autobiographical novel opens with the statement “I was born in a family of…
Winter of the World
The second in Follett’s Century Trilogy follows the main characters from Fall of Giants and their children as they navigate…
People of the Black Sun
The Iroquois nation is totally splintered. Clans are at war with each other, driven by disease, starvation, and the code…
The Girl on the Cliff
Riley’s second novel uses a familiar but intriguing device in which secrets of long ago impact a love story today.…
The Lighthouse Road
The Lighthouse Road might best be described as a family saga, except that the families are constructed out of characters…
Wicked Pleasures
Praeger & Son banking company in New York City had been successful for many decades thanks to Frederick Praeger III,…
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