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4) Bellefleur
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Bellefleur traces the lives of several generations of this unusual family. At its center is Gideon Bellefleur and his imperious, somewhat psychic, very beautiful wife, Leah, their three children (one with frightening psychic abilities), and the servants and relatives, living and dead, who inhabit the mansion and its environs. Their story offers a profound look at the world's changeableness, time and eternity, space and soul, pride and physicality...
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This chronicle of three generations of the Chapin family of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania stretches in time from about 1881 to 1945. Emphasis is upon the career of Joseph B. Chapin of the second generation. Not only do the Chapins who are important people in Gibbsville come to life in this story but so also does the community itself and many of its other citizens.
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In these piercingly lovely and endlessly surprising stories many things happen: there are betrayals and reconciliations, love affairs consummated and mourned. But the true events are the ways in which the characters are transformed over time, coming to view their past selves with an anger, regret, and infinite compassion that communicate themselves to us with electrifying force. [from publisher's description]
8) The yearling
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No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based...
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