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  • The Blondes
    The Blondes
    by Emily Schultz
    Hardcover: Apr 2015
    Paperback: Apr 2016
     
    A hilarious and whipsmart novel where an epidemic of a rabies-like disease is carried only by blonde women, all of whom must go to great lengths to conceal their blondness.
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  • Blood From A Stone
    Blood From A Stone : A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
    by Donna Leon
    Hardcover: Apr 2005
    Paperback: Apr 2006
     
    A pitch-perfect mystery, an alluring portrait of contemporary Venice, and an elucidating eye into the attitudes of a timeless place in the grip of change.
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  • The Blood of Flowers
    The Blood of Flowers : A Novel
    by Anita Amirrezvani
    Hardcover: Jun 2007
    Paperback: May 2008
     
    In 17th-century Persia, a young woman and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. Forced into a secret marriage to a wealthy man, the young woman is faced with a daunting decision: forsake her own dignity, or risk everything she has in ...
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  • Blood of Victory
    Blood of Victory
    by Alan Furst
    Hardcover: Aug 2002
    Paperback: May 2003
     
    November 1940, and the battle to cut Germany's oil supply rages through the spy haunts of the Balkans amid the street fighting of a fascist civil war. This is classic Alan Furst, combining remarkable authenticity and atmosphere with the ...
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  • The Blood Years
    The Blood Years
    by Elana K. Arnold
    Hardcover: Oct 2023
    Paperback: Oct 2024
     
    From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania.
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  • Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
    Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures : Stories
    by Vincent Lam
    Hardcover: Sep 2007
    Paperback: Sep 2008
     
    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 today’s doctors, patients, and hospitals.
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  • Bloodroot
    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 legacies—of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss—that haunt one family across the ...
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  • Blue Asylum
    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 ...
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