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Family Ties
Family Ties
Family Ties
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After weeks of prodding by her cousin and best friend Sarah Abbot, Elizabeth Barrett agrees to submit a DNA sample to Ancestry.com. Never in her wildest dreams, could Lizzie have imagined how her life and the lives of those she loves would change with the arrival of the test results. Instead of providing sought after answers, additional questions are raised, long-hidden secrets are revealed, and unexpected relatives are discovered.
Searching for the truth about her grandmother’s hidden past, Lizzie and Sarah travel from Arizona to the Czech Republic where they’re confronted with the horrors of the past, a time when, under Nazi rule and later Soviet oppression, Prague’s Jews were forced to make life-altering decisions that still impact their lives almost eighty years later.
Family Ties will keep you on the edge of your seat as you join Lizzie and Sarah in their efforts to solve the many mysteries of Lizzie’s family history and, at the same time, make important decision about their own futures.
Throughout the book, you will learn about the history and experience the sights of Prague. As well, you’ll be immersed in the ups and downs and the joys and disappointments of an ever-growing family with whom you’ll find an instant connection.
LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateNov 29, 2021
ISBN9781663232502
Family Ties
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Ann Port

Ann Port was born in Macon, Georgia and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1965, after graduating from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with a major in English and a minor in history, she moved to San Diego and earned a master’s degree in social sciences at California Western University in San Diego, California. For the next twenty-four years, she taught English literature, American literature, and Advanced Placement English in the San Diego area. In 1992, when her husband accepted a job with the Boston Red Sox, he and Ann moved to Southborough, Massachusetts, a lovely New England town thirty-seven miles west of the city.

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