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Like a Fire is Burning

Gerald N. Lund · back to the book

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Fall on Your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald · 510 pages

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Rumors of War

Dean Hughes · 500 pages

Large FamilyReligious IdentityChristian FictionHistorical Fiction
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All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown

Sydney Taylor · 187 pages

The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.

Large FamilyReligious IdentityMultigenerational FamilyHistorical Fiction
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Meet Rebecca

Jacqueline Dembar Greene

In 1914 New York City, nine-year-old Rebecca is determined to show her family that she is old enough to light the Shabbos candles and go to the movies.

Large FamilyReligious IdentityMultigenerational FamilyHistorical Fiction
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Three Daughters

Consuelo Saah Baehr · 712 pages

From the fertile hills of a tiny village near Jerusalem to the elegant townhouses of Georgetown, Three Daughters is a historical saga that chronicles the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of Palestinian Christian women. Born in rural Palestine, just before the dawn of the twentieth century, Miriam adores her father and is certain his love will protect her, but she soon finds that trad

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Her Daughter's Dream

Francine Rivers · 584 pages

This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15520611W.

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Jerusalem Interlude

Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene · 419 pages

Religious IdentityChristian FictionSprawling EpicHistorical Fiction
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A Love Surrendered

Julie Lessman

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Gilead

Marilynne Robinson · 256 pages

**WINNER OF THE 2005 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION** In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowan preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He “preached men into the Civi

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Random Passage

Bernice Morgan · 446 pages

Forced to leave their native England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. This is the saga of families and of individuals in th

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Under the North Star

Vaino Linna · 420 pages

Large FamilyMultigenerational FamilySprawling EpicHistorical Fiction
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The Stonewycke Trilogy

Michael R. Phillips, Judith Pella · 210 pages

Multigenerational FamilyChristian FictionSprawling EpicHistorical Fiction
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The Wife

Sigrid Undset · 423 pages

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Pilgrim's Inn

Elizabeth Goudge · 346 pages

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Four Fires

Bryce Courtenay · 800 pages

Large FamilyMultigenerational FamilySprawling EpicHistorical Fiction
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Great Lion of God

Taylor Caldwell · 669 pages

Religious IdentityChristian FictionSprawling EpicHistorical Fiction
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The Mussolini Canal

Antonio Pennacchi · 536 pages

"The Mussolini Canal is one of the great achievements of contemporary Italian fiction. It spans 100 years of Italian history as seen through the lives of the Peruzzi family, who are among the 30,000 peasants from Northern Italy sent down to farm the newly-drained Pontine Marshes outside Rome in the 1930s."--Back cover.

Large FamilySprawling EpicMultigenerational FamilyHistorical Fiction
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Return to Me

Lynn Austin · 459 pages

Christian FictionMultigenerational FamilyReligious IdentityHistorical Fiction
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Levi's Will

W. Dale Cramer · 397 pages

"A family saga of pain and reconciliation set behind the closed doors of an Amish community. Spanning three generations, the story follows the life of Will McGruder, who having fled as a young man, seeks to heal the past by bringing his new family to meet his Amish relatives"--Provided by publisher.

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The Godfather

Mario Puzo · 447 pages

The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is

Large FamilyMultigenerational FamilySprawling EpicHistorical Fiction
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The Fiery Cross

Diana Gabaldon · 985 pages

New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon mesmerized readers with her award-winning Outlander novels, four dazzling tales featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall. Now, in this eagerly awaited fifth volume, Diana Gabaldon continues their extraordinary saga, a masterpiece of pure storytelling that is her most astonishing

Large FamilyMultigenerational FamilyHistorical FictionSprawling Epic
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street

Naguib Mahfouz · 1,336 pages

Contains: [بين القصرين](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599742W) [قصر الشوق](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599738W) [السكرية](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599727W)

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The Rebels of Ireland

Edward Rutherfurd · 896 pages

A sweep through the past 4 centuries of Irish history, woven around a family saga. Very readable and credible accounts of the historical events, although some of the fictional characters are a bit far fetched at the end of the tale, to round up the whole thing. It answers a lot of questions about the complexity of "THE IRISH QUESTION", and you can see modern day parallels to recent post-colonial

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Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie · 548 pages

Multigenerational FamilyReligious IdentitySprawling EpicHistorical Fiction

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