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  The Family (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Family is a novel by Mario Puzo.
The novel is about Pope Alexander VI and his family.
The book is peopled by real characters, including Niccolò Machiavelli, and the real relationships with members of the Borgia family.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Family_(novel)   (124 words)

  
 Masterpiece Theatre | The American Collection | A Death in the Family
The story explores the effect of a shattering death on a tight-knit family in Knoxville, Tennessee, during the summer of 1915.
James Agee's luminous and largely autobiographical novel is a portrait of the fragility -- and the resilience -- of family.
A Death in the Family was his only novel, discovered unfinished among his papers when he died suddenly from a heart attack at age 45 in 1955.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/death/index.html   (221 words)

  
 Genre: The Family Novel
Very narrowly defined, "family novel" refers to a group of novels written in England in the mid-19th century, usually both extolling the virtues of domesticity and chronicling the complications that can arise within family life.
As a general rule, a family novel is a novel that does at least one of three things.
Tolstoy depicts the family as a tottering institution, struggling to survive in the face of a crumbling social structure.
www.oprah.com /obc_classic/featbook/anna/genre/anna_genre_b.jhtml   (463 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Family Orchard: a Novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Their granddaughter, Avra, marries into a Russian immigrant family that has established a small orchard in Petach Tikvah, a town near Tel Aviv, in 1909; that couple's great-granddaughter is Nomi Eve.
While Eve has not used the family's real name, it's obvious that her lovingly detailed story is based on autobiographical fact.
The Family Orchard begins with the linking of "what my father says" and "what I say", alternating perspectives as each new member of the family tree is introduced.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375724575   (1037 words)

  
 Author Lawrence Richette's Novel, The Secret Family - P.A.W. Print - Philadelphia Arts Writers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Her nouveau riche family lost its fortune when the village's priest and prince (a rapacious pair who could easily sport tattoos reading, "We're the Pasa Novanti," if appearing in a Mario Puzo book), sold the father's mortgages at profit.
The Italian family of Richette becomes as good a boot camp for Corporate America as the immigrants of Santa Caterina, Calabria and Roseto Valforte, Apulia were once breeding grounds for quarrymen, miners and bricklayers who scooted off to the mines of Scranton and the quarries of Easton.
Furious, Leonora leaves her family, whom she is convinced has closed an eye to Vittorio's guilt in the murder of her common law husband, whom she is pleased to imagine is rotting in his chilly barracks in Montana.
www.philadelphiawriters.com /articles/06_2004/richette.htm   (4075 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Family Trade (Merchant Princes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Merchant Princes have a complicated family structure (they are required to marry into the family to maintain expression of the recessive world-walking trait).
Miriam must quickly find her balance in the complex family intrigues of the Princes before one of them decides to assassinate her (and assassination is hard to avoid when an assassin can suddenly pop in from an alternate world).
The Family Trade is a relatively slim introduction to a large concept series--the idea that a Family clan has the ability to "worldwalk" between their mostly medieval world and our own via their bloodline (the ability is hereditary) and a special amulet.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765309297?v=glance   (2242 words)

  
 Sin - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sin City launched the long-running, critically acclaimed series of comics novels by Frank Miller.
The girl's dress was red, her lips were red--you get the picture.
In That Yellow Bastard, the fourth Sin City graphic novel, Miller's...
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sin.htm   (3060 words)

  
 Yad Vashem Studies XXXII
Finally, Rita Horvath examines the genre of the family novel in contemporary Hungarian Jewish literature.
This is a generally neglected period in research on the Holocaust, but, in many ways, it provided a formative experience for Polish Jews in their later reactions to Nazi policies.
The changes wrought in the Jewish woman’s familial and societal role and the special dangers that she faced are a significant factor in our understanding of Jewish responses to the Holocaust.
www1.yadvashem.org /about_holocaust/studies/studies_32.html   (1419 words)

  
 Zweig, Arnold on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
After 1948 he returned to live in East Germany.
Zweig's realistic novels are characterized by profound humanity and ironic style; the best known, which form a trilogy, are Education before Verdun (1935, tr.
Rafael Seligmann's Rubinsteins Versteigerung: The German-Jewish Family Novel before and after the Holocaust.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/Z/Zweig-A1r.asp   (309 words)

  
 Press Release - Fmoc Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By using of orthogonal protecting group strategy, resins with novel linkers and customized cleavage protocols, modified peptides can be synthesized routinely.
Kempe M and Barany G (1996) CLEAR: A novel family of highly cross-linked polymeric supports for solid-phase peptide synthesis.
Meldal M (1992) A flow stable polyethylene glycol dimethyl acrylamide copolymer for solid phase synthesis.
www.synpep.com /Corporate/Press/april0803.htm   (1420 words)

  
 IMT Bioinformatics - Publications
Norberg, J. and Vihinen, M. Molecular dynamics simulation of the effects of cytosine methylation on structure of oligonucleotides
Mäkiniemi, M., Pospiech, H., Kilpeläinen, S., Jokela, M., Vihinen, M., and Syväoja, J. A novel family of DNA-polymerase-associated B subunits PubMed
Saha, B. K., Curtis, S. K., Vogler, L. B., and Vihinen, M. Molecular and structural characterization of five novel mutations in the Bruton's tyrosine kinase gene from patients with X-linked agammaglobulinemia PubMed
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