Author: Bernhard Schlink
Publisher: Pantheo
Keywords: novel, homecoming
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0375420916
ISBN-13: 9780375420917

The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man’s odyssey and another man’s pursuit.A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother’s unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding his missing father after all these years. The search takes him across Europe, to the United States, and back: finding witnesses, falling in and out of love, chasing fragm

Author: Natasha Radojcic
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: novel, homecoming
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-03-08
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0812972414
ISBN-13: 9780812972412

Halid, a young Muslim �war hero,� returns home from the Bosnian War. Although his village was spared heavy combat, it has been ravaged by years of privation and heartbreak, and by the blood politics that continue to boil. The community is tight-knit and lively, as it has been for hundreds of years, yet alliances between friends and neighbors, among Muslims, Christians, and Gypsies, shift and twitch and explode from strain. Halid the soldier has faced his fear of enemy fire; Halid the son is afraid of the arms of his waiting mother. He is weary and alone, but home is the last place he wants to

Author: Belva Plai
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: homecoming
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-10-13
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440225272
ISBN-13: 9780440225270

With unerring insight and emotional power, Belva Plain, in her extraordinary novel, tells the story of a family divided and of the proud matriarch who takes a bold last stand to unite her warring children in what may be their last Homecoming.It is a crisp December day when Annette Byrne walks to the end of her long, curving driveway and drops five sealed envelopes into the mailbox, quickly, before second thoughts stay her hand. Shortly thereafter, with the holidays approaching, her estranged family will be gathered at her country estate for the first time in years.The sons. . . two brothers em

Author: Harold Pinter
Publisher: Grove Pre
Keywords: homecoming
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1994-01-11
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802151051
ISBN-13: 9780802151056

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family’s struggle for supremacy. The playwright’s other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times".

Author: Barry Longyear
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: homecoming
Number of Pages: 146
Published: 2002-01-21
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 059521309X
ISBN-13: 9780595213092

Inhabitants of Earth from seventy million years ago return to reclaim their planet. A struggling advertising man doin his six-month reserve call-up duty for the Air Force is sent to negotiate for the future existence of a newly evolved species: humanity.

Author: Bernhard Schlink
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: international, vintage, homecoming
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375725571
ISBN-13: 9780375725579

Growing up with his mother in Germany, Peter Debauer knows little about his father, an apparent victim of the Second World War. But when he stumbles upon a few pages from a long-lost novel, Peter embarks on a quest that leads him across Europe to the United States, chasing fragments of a story within a story and a master of disguises who may or may not exist. Homecoming is a tale of fathers and sons, men and women, war and peace. It reveals the humanity that survives the trauma of war and the ongoing possibility for redemption.

Author: Cynthia Voigt
Publisher: Atheneum
Keywords: series, tillerman, homecoming
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0689863616
ISBN-13: 9780689863615

"IT’S STILL TRUE."That’s the first thing James Tillerman says to his sister Dicey every morning. It’s still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillerman children somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It’s still true they have to find their way, somehow, to Great-aunt Cilla’s house in Bridgeport, which may be their only hope of staying together as a family.But when they get to Bridgeport, they learn that Great-aunt Cilla has died, and the home they find with her daughter, Eunice, isn’t the permanent haven they’ve been searching for. So thei