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  • Birnam Wood
    Birnam Wood : A Novel
    by Eleanor Catton
    Hardcover: Mar 2023
    Paperback: Mar 2024
     
    The Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.
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  • The Birth of Venus
    The Birth of Venus
    by Sarah Dunant
    Hardcover: Feb 2004
    Paperback: Dec 2004
     
    A compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion and power set in Florence during the Renaissance and told through the passionate voice of a heroine with the same vibrant spirit as her beloved city.
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  • Black Cloud Rising
    Black Cloud Rising
    by David Wright Falade
    Hardcover: Feb 2022
    Paperback: Feb 2023
     
    Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom.
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  • Black Leopard, Red Wolf
    Black Leopard, Red Wolf : The Dark Star Trilogy #1
    by Marlon James
    Hardcover: Feb 2019
    Paperback: Feb 2020
     
    In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.
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  • Black Rabbit Hall
    Black Rabbit Hall
    by Eve Chase
    Hardcover: Feb 2016
    Paperback: Jul 2017
     
    For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here's a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall.
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  • Black River
    Black River : A Novel
    by S.M. Hulse
    Hardcover: Jan 2015
    Paperback: Jan 2016
     
    A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot.
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  • Black Swan Green
    Black Swan Green
    by David Mitchell
    Hardcover: Apr 2006
    Paperback: Feb 2007
     
    A novel about a 13-year-old boy's perilous trek through schoolyard trials, his budding interest in girls and the simmering tension between his parents.
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  • The Black Tower
    The Black Tower
    by Louis Bayard
    Hardcover: Sep 2008
    Paperback: Oct 2009
     
    Vidocq. The name strikes terror in the Parisian underworld of 1818. As founder and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq has used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to capture some of France’s most notorious and ...
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