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Forty-year saga of one woman's search for the meaning of home.
Lacey Winters measures her life in houses. That's always been the way she divides the befores and the afters, the success and losses, the endings and beginnings. To hear her tale you will have to hear about the houses—the American ranch, the Georgian Colonial, the restored farmhouse, the Cotswald cottage—that hold her memories of loss and betrayal, birth and death, struggle and triumph.
From the turbulent 60s, through the psychedelic 70s, the materialistic 80s, and the booms and busts of the end of the century, Lacey will try and fail and try again to build her own version of th | |  | | The Nesting Dolls
Four generations of mothers lose their daughters to war, political upheaval and family lies
They were trinkets only, but lovely ones, and much admired among the Russian aristocracy. A set of the little wooden dolls had recently taken a bronze medal at the Paris world’s fair—that Exposition Universelle also distinguished by the supremacy of Russian wines, by Gustave Eiffel’s marvelous tower, and a new invention they called the telephone.
Matryoshka dolls were already being copied across Russia to be shipped around the world. But the set given to Valentina Gubinova were originals, painted by the artist Maliutin himself and presented to Valentina on the birth of her first child, a g |
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Helios
by Dean Cambourakis
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 Helios is an award winning novel about a brilliant inventor of new technology, a fallen CEO seeking redemption, and an idealistic youth who comes of age in corporate America. |
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