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  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind : Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
    by William Kamkwamba
    Hardcover: Oct 2009
    Paperback: Aug 2010
     
    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community.
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  • The Boys in the Boat
    The Boys in the Boat : Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
    by Daniel James Brown
    Hardcover: Jun 2013
    Paperback: May 2014
     
    For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics
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  • Bread Alone
    Bread Alone
    by Judith Ryan Hendricks
    Hardcover: Jun 2001
    Paperback: May 2002
     
    Inspiring and beautifully rendered, Bread Alone is an uplifting debut novel -- dusted in the gentlest of magic, full of humor, and guaranteed to warm the heart.
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  • Breaking Clean
    Breaking Clean : A Memoir
    by Judy Blunt
    Hardcover: Feb 2002
    Paperback: Jan 2003
     
    Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined. A must read.
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  • Breaking Wild
    Breaking Wild
    by Diane Les Becquets
    Hardcover: Feb 2016
    Paperback: Feb 2017
     
    In captivating prose, Diane Les Becquets tells the story of one woman missing in the Colorado wilderness and another bent on discovering the missing woman's whereabouts, in an unforgettably moving and thrilling literary debut.
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  • Breath
    Breath : A Novel
    by Tim Winton
    Hardcover: May 2008
    Paperback: May 2009
     
    Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one’s limits against nature, finding like-minded souls, and discovering just how far one breath will take you. It’s a story of extremes—extreme...
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  • Breath and Bones
    Breath and Bones : A Novel
    by Susann Cokal
    Hardcover: May 2005
    Paperback: May 2006
     
    A romp through the late 19th century chronicling the adventures - sexual and otherwise - of its beautiful heroine, Famke, from her childhood in a Copenhagen orphanage to her strange adventures in the American Wild West.
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  • A Breath of Fresh Air
    A Breath of Fresh Air
    by Amulya Malladi
    Hardcover: Jun 2002
    Paperback: Jun 2003
     
    On the night of December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her husband to pick her up at the train station in Bhopal, India. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at his being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city ...
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    A young woman’s coming-of-age story set in the early American frontier, shaped by tragedy, nature, and resilience.
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