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  • Back to Blood
    Back to Blood
    by Tom Wolfe
    Hardcover: Oct 2012
    Paperback: Jul 2013
     
    Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous bestselling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.
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  • Back When We Were Grownups
    Back When We Were Grownups
    by Anne Tyler
    Hardcover: May 2001
    Paperback: Apr 2002
     
    Rebecca, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother, is caught unawares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it--how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been--is the story told in this beguiling, funny...
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  • Bad Cree
    Bad Cree : A Novel
    by Jessica Johns
    Hardcover: Jan 2023
    Paperback: Dec 2023
     
    In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
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  • Baker Towers
    Baker Towers
    by Jennifer Haigh
    Hardcover: Jan 2005
    Paperback: Dec 2005
     
    A compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.

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  • The Baker's Daughter
    The Baker's Daughter : A Novel
    by Sarah McCoy
    Hardcover: Aug 2012
    Paperback: Aug 2012
     
    A routine interview between a reporter and an elderly baker brings out memories of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII. As their lives become more intertwined, all are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of ...
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  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    by Dai Sijie
    Hardcover: Sep 2001
    Paperback: Oct 2002
     
    From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of ...
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  • The Bandit Queens
    The Bandit Queens : A Novel
    by Parini Shroff
    Hardcover: Jan 2023
    Paperback: Jan 2024
     
    A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.
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  • Banishing Verona
    Banishing Verona
    by Margot Livesey
    Hardcover: Nov 2004
    Paperback: Sep 2005
     
    A couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly -- and perhaps irrevocably -- in this surprising, suspenseful love story.
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