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  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum
    Behind the Scenes at the Museum : A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition)
    by Kate Atkinson
    Paperback: Dec 2020
     
    A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of award-winning, bestselling author Kate Atkinson's debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a deeply moving and deeply funny family story of happiness and heartbreak.
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  • Behold the Dreamers
    Behold the Dreamers
    by Imbolo Mbue
    Hardcover: Aug 2016
    Paperback: Jun 2017
     
    Oprah Winfrey's Summer 2017 Book Club Pick

    In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young ...
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  • Beijing Coma
    Beijing Coma : A Novel
    by Ma Jian
    Hardcover: May 2008
    Paperback: Jun 2009
     
    At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian’s masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and deep rage, this extraordinary ...
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  • Being Mortal
    Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End
    by Atul Gawande
    Hardcover: Oct 2014
    Paperback: Sep 2017
     
    In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
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  • Bel Canto
    Bel Canto
    by Ann Patchett
    Hardcover: May 2001
    Paperback: Jun 2002
     
    'Combining an unerring instinct for telling detail with the broader brushstrokes you need to tackle issues of culture and politics, Patchett creates a remarkably compelling chronicle of a multinational group of the rich and powerful held hostage ...
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  • The Bell in the Lake
    The Bell in the Lake : Sister Bells Trilogy #1
    by Lars Mytting
    Hardcover: Sep 2020
    Paperback: Sep 2022
     
    The engrossing epic novel - a #1 bestseller in Norway - of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village's mystical church bells.
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  • Bella Tuscany
    Bella Tuscany : The Sweet Life In Italy
    by Frances Mayes
    Hardcover: Apr 1999
    Paperback: Apr 2000
     
    Frances Mayes invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food there and throughout Italy.
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  • Belle Cora
    Belle Cora : A Novel
    by Phillip Margulies
    Hardcover: Jan 2014
    Paperback: Oct 2014
     
    A sweeping historical novel based on the extraordinary life and times of Belle Cora, the daughter of a New York merchant who went on to become a millworker, a prostitute, a notorious madam, a murderess, and eventually one of San Francisco's ...
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