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  • Blue Diary
    Blue Diary
    by Alice Hoffman
    Hardcover: Jul 2001
    Paperback: Aug 2002
     
    The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances?
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  • The Blue Guitar
    The Blue Guitar
    by John Banville
    Hardcover: Sep 2015
    Paperback: Aug 2016
     
    John Banville, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel - at once trenchant, witty, and shattering - about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn ...
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  • Blue Shoe
    Blue Shoe
    by Anne Lamott
    Hardcover: Sep 2002
    Paperback: Oct 2003
     
    An honest, irreverent and compelling story laced with self-deprecating humor, grace, and wit. As always, Anne Lamott creates characters with whom we can identify, as she explores the depths of human emotion.
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  • Blue Shoes and Happiness
    Blue Shoes and Happiness
    by Alexander McCall Smith
    Hardcover: Apr 2006
    Paperback: Mar 2007
     
    There is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals that faulty blood–pressure readings are being recorded there. ...
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  • Blue Sky Kingdom
    Blue Sky Kingdom : An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
    by Bruce Kirkby
    Hardcover: Oct 2020
    Paperback: Jul 2022
     
    A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings.
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  • The Blue Star
    The Blue Star
    by Tony Earley
    Hardcover: Mar 2008
    Paperback: Aug 2009
     
    Jim Glass has fallen in love with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school ...
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  • The Bluest Eye
    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison
    Hardcover: Jan 1970
    Paperback: Jul 2007
     
    The story of a black girl in America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others. First published 1970; won the 1993 Nobel Prize. Republished 2000.
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  • The Boat Rocker
    The Boat Rocker
    by Ha Jin
    Hardcover: Oct 2016
    Paperback: Oct 2017
     
    From the universally admired, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.
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