An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration with photographer Spencer Ostrander
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes the critical in a matter of seconds. A formidable debut, it is a profound and unforgettable depiction of todays doctors, patients, and hospitals.
Bloodroot
by Amy Greene
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: Jan 2011
Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legaciesof magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and lossthat haunt one family across the ...
Blue Asylum
: A Novel
by Kathy Hepinstall
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: Apr 2013
In the midst of the American Civil War, a southern plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for interfering with his slaves. She is sent to an island mental asylum to come to terms with her wrongdoing, but instead finds ...
Blue At The Mizzen
by Patrick O'Brian
Hardcover: Oct 1999
Paperback: Sep 2000
The excitement of the Aubrey/Maturin series soars to new heights in this volume, as Jack, again the daring frigate commander of old, stakes all on a desperate solo night raid against the might of the Spanish viceroy in Peru.
Blue Diary
by Alice Hoffman
Hardcover: Jul 2001
Paperback: Aug 2002
The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances?
Blue Latitudes
by Tony Horwitz
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
'Thoroughly enjoyable. No writer has better captured the heroic enigma that was Captain James Cook than Tony Horwitz in this amiable and enthralling excursion around the Pacific.'
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