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  • The Big Over Easy
    The Big Over Easy : A Nursery Crime
    by Jasper Fforde
    Hardcover: Jul 2005
    Paperback: Jul 2006
     
    It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity, Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, is found shattered to death. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary are on the case and before long find ...
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  • The Binding Chair
    The Binding Chair : or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society
    by Kathryn Harrison
    Hardcover: Apr 2000
    Paperback: Jul 2001
     
    May escapes an arranged marriage in rural nineteenth-century China for life in a Shanghai brothel. By turns shocking, exquisite, and hilarious.
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  • Biography of X
    Biography of X : A Novel
    by Catherine Lacey
    Hardcover: Mar 2023
    Paperback: Mar 2024
     
    From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist.
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  • Bird Lake Moon
    Bird Lake Moon
    by Kevin Henkes
    Hardcover: Apr 2008
    Paperback: Mar 2010
     
    When two boys come to spend the summer at Bird Lake, each is reeling from his own personal tragedy. Both boys arrive scarred and fragile, but as they become friends, the sharp edges of their lives smooth out and, slowly, they are able to start to ...
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  • The Bird Skinner
    The Bird Skinner
    by Alice Greenway
    Hardcover: Jan 2014
    Paperback: Nov 2014
     
    Written in lush, lyrical prose - rich in island detail, redolent of Maine in summer and of the Pacific -The Bird Skinner is wise and wrenching, an unforgettable masterwork from an extraordinarily skillful novelist.
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  • Birds of a Lesser Paradise
    Birds of a Lesser Paradise : Stories
    by Megan Mayhew Bergman
    Hardcover: Mar 2012
    Paperback: Nov 2012
     
    A heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.
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  • Birds Without Wings
    Birds Without Wings
    by Louis de Bernieres
    Hardcover: Aug 2004
    Paperback: Jun 2005
     
    Epic in its narrative sweep, steeped in historical fact yet profoundly humane, and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail. This is de Bernières' first book since Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
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  • Birdsong
    Birdsong
    by Sebastian Faulks
    Hardcover: Feb 1996
    Paperback: Apr 1997
     
    Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
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