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  • Banishing Verona
    Banishing Verona
    by Margot Livesey
    Hardcover: Nov 2004
    Paperback: Sep 2005
     
    A couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly -- and perhaps irrevocably -- in this surprising, suspenseful love story.
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  • Banned Together
    Banned Together : Our Fight for Readers' Rights
    by Ashley Hope Pérez
    Hardcover: Mar 2025
    Paperback: May 2026
     
    A dazzling YA anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators.
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  • Banyan Moon
    Banyan Moon : A Novel
    by Thao Thai
    Hardcover: Jun 2023
    Paperback: Jun 2024
     
    A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.
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  • Barbara the Slut and Other People
    Barbara the Slut and Other People
    by Lauren Holmes
    Hardcover: Aug 2015
    Paperback: Aug 2016
     
    A fresh, honest, and darkly funny debut collection about family, friends, and lovers, and the flaws that make us most human.
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  • The Barbarians Are Coming
    The Barbarians Are Coming
    by David Wong Louie
    Hardcover: Mar 2000
    Paperback: Mar 2001
     
    A stunning depiction of the Chinese-American experience and a deeply affecting novel about fathers and sons
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  • Barbed Wire Heart
    Barbed Wire Heart : A Thriller
    by Tess Sharpe
    Hardcover: Mar 2018
    Paperback: Mar 2019
     
    From a powerful new voice in suspense fiction comes the unforgettable story of a young woman facing the most difficult choice of her life: family loyalty, or freedom.
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  • Bark
    Bark : Stories
    by Lorrie Moore
    Hardcover: Feb 2014
    Paperback: Oct 2014
     
    These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched spirit.
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  • Barkskins
    Barkskins
    by Annie Proulx
    Hardcover: Jun 2016
    Paperback: Apr 2017
     
    From Annie Proulx - the Pulitzer Prize-­ and National Book Award - winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's ...
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