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The Whiteoak brothers Mazo de la Roche · 1953 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the heart of Renny. Eden, meets a persuasive mining broker whose new venture promises miracles. Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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The silver spoon John Galsworthy · 1921 · ★ 4.1 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Domestic fiction, Families with this book.
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Evening Star Larry McMurtry · 1992 · ★ 4.0 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Challenging Een ruimdenkende bejaarde dame uit Texas ondervindt de problemen van het ouder worden. Vervolg op "Terms of endearment." Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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Rich Man, Poor Man Irwin Shaw · 1970 · ★ 4.5 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Challenging A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright." Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray · 1853 · ★ 3.7 · 801p · ≈ 26h · Demanding The Newcomes is Thackeray's most essentially 'Victorian' novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the moral convolutions of the age, and encyclopaedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers the fortunes and misfortunes of a 'most respectable' extended middle-class family. The action… Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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The Italian Girl Iris Murdoch · 1964 · ★ 4.1 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life.Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always 'a second mother' This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund. Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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Searching for Caleb Anne Tyler · 1976 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and… Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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Twilight's Child V. C. Andrews · 1991 · ★ 4.3 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate **As Mrs. James Gary Longchamp, Dawn is blissfully happy. But a legacy of deceit and betrayal still haunts her...** At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotel... and soon she and Jimmy will be blessed with a child of their own. Yet Dawn cannot quell her… Shares Families
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Pigs in heaven Barbara Kingsolver · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees. Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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The Memorial Christopher Isherwood · 1932 · ★ 3.4 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Memorial is a 1932 English novel by author Christopher Isherwood. The novel tells the story of an English family's disintegration in the days following World War I. Isherwood's second published novel, this is the first of his works for which he adapted his own life experiences into his fiction. Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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Dark Witch Nora Roberts · 2013 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: County Mao, Ireland. Iona arrives in Ireland with nothing but her Nan's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude, and an innate talent with horses. There she finds her cousins, Branna and Connor O'Dwyer, and they invite her into their lives. When Iona lands a job at the local… Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe · 1929 · ★ 3.9 · 636p · ≈ 21h · Challenging An elaborate and moving coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston. The novel's pattern is artfully simple--a small town, a large family, high school and college--yet the characters are monumental in their graphic individuality and… Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence · 1915 · ★ 3.7 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate (Brangwen Family #1) Lush with imagery, this is the story of three generations of Brangwen women living during the decline of English rural life. Banned upon publication, it explores the most taboo subjects of its time: marriage, physical love, and one family's sexual mores. Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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Septiembre Rosamunde Pilcher · 1901 · ★ 4.2 · 531p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Con motivo de una fiesta de cumpleaños, una serie de personajes procedentes de Inglaterra. Estados Unidos, Escocia y España coinciden en el pequeño pueblo de Strachroy. En Septiembre, en Escocia, se prodigan celebraciones, cacerías y bailes. Sin embargo, al compás de ese ambiente festivo, el destino arrasará a los protagonistas a situaciones tan dramáticas como sorprendentes, y les obligará a… Shares Domestic fiction, Families
The Faithless
The Faithless Martina Cole · 2011 · ★ 4.2 · 490p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Shares Families with this book.
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Dragon Seed (Progress English) Pearl S. Buck · 1941 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Dragon Seed is a fictional novel which describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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Please Look After Mom Kyong-suk Sin · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A story about devoted mom. One day, a mom has desapeared and the children try to find their mom. Shares Domestic fiction, Families
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Fall On Your Knees:A Novel Ann-Marie MacDonald · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 508p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped… Shares Domestic fiction, Families

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