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  • Brother, I'm Dying
    Brother, I'm Dying
    by Edwidge Danticat
    Hardcover: Sep 2007
    Paperback: Sep 2008
     
    From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
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  • Buckeye
    Buckeye : A Novel
    by Patrick Ryan
    Hardcover: Sep 2025
    Paperback: Sep 2026
     
    "A small-town novel of epic proportions" (Tom Perrotta), this captivating story weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.
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  • Bucking The Sarge
    Bucking The Sarge
    by Christopher Paul Curtis
    Hardcover: Sep 2004
    Paperback: May 2006
     
    Featuring characters so lively they seem to jump off the page, this vibrant modern-day battle between greed and morality proves that there is more than one way to come out on top. Ages 10-up.
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  • Bull Mountain
    Bull Mountain
    by Brian Panowich
    Hardcover: Jul 2015
    Paperback: Jun 2016
     
    Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Debut Author Award

    From a remarkable new voice in Southern fiction, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance.
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  • The Bullet Swallower
    The Bullet Swallower : A Novel
    by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
    Hardcover: Jan 2024
    Paperback: Jan 2025
     
    A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to save his family, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, ...
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  • The Burgess Boys
    The Burgess Boys
    by Elizabeth Strout
    Hardcover: Mar 2013
    Paperback: Apr 2014
     
    Elizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing ...
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  • Burial Rites
    Burial Rites
    by Hannah Kent
    Hardcover: Sep 2013
    Paperback: Apr 2014
     
    A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.
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  • Burnt Shadows
    Burnt Shadows : A Novel
    by Kamila Shamsie
    Paperback: Apr 2009
     
    Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal.
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