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  • Blackbird House
    Blackbird House
    by Alice Hoffman
    Hardcover: Jul 2004
    Paperback: Mar 2005
     
    Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives.
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  • The Blazing World
    The Blazing World
    by Siri Hustvedt
    Hardcover: Mar 2014
    Paperback: Nov 2014
     
    A brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.
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  • Blessings
    Blessings
    by Anna Quindlen
    Hardcover: Sep 2002
    Paperback: Aug 2003
     
    A teenage couple drive up to the Blessings estate late at night, leaving a box behind them. The estate caretaker finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her; and matriarch Lydia Blessing, for her own reasons, decides to help him...
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  • The Blind Assassin
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood
    Hardcover: Sep 2000
    Paperback: Aug 2001
     
    The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience, told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s.
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  • The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
    The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
    by John Pipkin
    Hardcover: Oct 2016
    Paperback: Sep 2017
     
    A novel of the obsessions of the age: scientific inquiry, geographic discovery, political reformation, but above all, astronomy, the mapping of the solar system and beyond. It is a novel of the quest for knowledge and for human connection - rich, far...
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  • A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
    A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You : Stories
    by Amy Bloom
    Hardcover: Jul 2000
    Paperback: Jul 2001
     
    Transcendent stories: about the uncertain gestures of love, about the betrayals and gifts of the body, about the surprises and bounties of the heart, and about what comes to us unbidden and what we choose.
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  • The Blindness of the Heart
    The Blindness of the Heart : A Novel
    by Julia Franck
    Hardcover: Oct 2010
    Paperback: May 2011
     
    Winner of the German Book Prize, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices—a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family.
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  • Blink
    Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    by Malcolm Gladwell
    Hardcover: Jan 2005
    Paperback: Apr 2007
     
    Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.
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