Peter Behrens
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"CARRY ME is told from the perspective of Billy, born to a German father and an Irish mother who are employees on the summer estate of the German-Jewish Baron von Weinbrenner on the scenic Isle of Wight. The book's brilliant narrative twines together the love story of Billy and Karin, the baron's free-spirited daughter, during several crucial months in 1938, and their childhood journey, separately and together, leading up to that 1938 moment when...
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An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family, from the author of the acclaimed novel The Law of Dreams.
The O’Briens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O’Brien—grandson of a potato-famine emigrant, and a backwoods boy, railroad
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[2003]
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English
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The story of rugged ranch hand, Roy Leckner (Czerny) who tries to fulfill his employer's dying wish to find his son, bring him home and groom him to run the family's failing cattle ranch. Roy soon learns that the boy has been institutionalized since birth. When callous businessman, Sir Robert Butler, plots to take over the property, it looks like Roy has little chance of saving the ranch. But then Sir Robert's former secretary, Jane Makepeace, joins...
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