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New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain beguiles us once again with anovel that explores the bonds that sustain familiesand the lies that canshatter them forever. Sweeping through the pivotal events of twentiethcenturyAmerica The Sight of the Stars chronicles four generations of one remarkablefamily as they journey through years of love loss sacrifice and unimaginablebetrayal.Dressed in a brandnew suit with one hundred and fifty dollars in his pocketAdam Arnring says goodbye to his family and boards a train for the fabledWest. The year is 1907. Adam is nineteen years old a young man with stars inhis eyes who has always dreamed of a future in the great open spaces ofAmerica. Now far from his New Jersey home he takes the first step towardattaining that dream landing a job in a small department store in a boomingTexas town. Here he meets a woman who excites him beyond all measure. Theexquisite untouchable Emma Rothirsch lives in a world whose doors are firmlyclosed to him. But Adam is a man willing to take great risks to get what hewants.One is Emma. The other is to build a lasting business enterprise that will liveon through his children and grandchildren. But just when Adams dreams arewithin reach fate intervenes. Tragedy strikes from the trenches of World WarI setting in motion a series of events that echo down through the years. Theowner of a prospering department store and the head of a growing family Adamsuccumbs to a moment of weakness that culminates in an unforgivable act ofbetrayal. And now as another generation prepares to take its rightful place inthe familys legendary empire the tenuous threads of the Arnrings pastbeginto unravel revealing a shattering secret that reaches back nearly a century.Across a teeming canvas of history through world wars and the close of acentury The Sight of the Stars tells a deeply affecting story of family andforgiveness guilt and redemption. B «
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