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  • Before I Go To Sleep
    Before I Go To Sleep : A Novel
    by S.J. Watson
    Hardcover: Jun 2011
    Paperback: Feb 2012
     
    Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Welcome to Christine's life.
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  • Before The Frost
    Before The Frost
    by Henning Mankell
    Hardcover: Feb 2005
    Paperback: Feb 2006
     
    In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda, just graduated from the police academy, join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree and soon find themselves forced to confront a group of extremists bent...
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  • Before the Mango Ripens
    Before the Mango Ripens
    by Afabwaje Kurian
    Hardcover: Sep 2024
    Paperback: Oct 2025
     
    Set against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for belonging. Both epic and intimate, Afabwaje Kurian'...
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  • Before We Sleep
    Before We Sleep
    by Jeffrey Lent
    Hardcover: May 2017
     
    The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from WWII to the dawning of the '60s - the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent's career.
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  • Before You Know Kindness
    Before You Know Kindness
    by Chris Bohjalian
    Hardcover: Oct 2004
    Paperback: Aug 2005
     
    A family saga that is timely in its examination of some of the most important issues of our era, and timeless in its exploration of the strange and unexpected places where we find love.
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  • The Beheading Game
    The Beheading Game : A Novel
    by Rebecca Lehmann
    Hardcover: Mar 2026
     
    Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge ...

    We all know what happened to Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?
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  • Beheld
    Beheld
    by TaraShea Nesbit
    Hardcover: Mar 2020
    Paperback: Oct 2021
     
    From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a stranger's arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts - and a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.
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  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers
    Behind the Beautiful Forevers : Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    by Katherine Boo
    Hardcover: Feb 2012
    Paperback: Apr 2014
     
    From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.
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