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  • The Bellini Madonna
    The Bellini Madonna : A Novel
    by Elizabeth Lowry
    Hardcover: Apr 2009
    Paperback: May 2010
     
    Thomas Lynch was once a brilliant young art historian. Now he is a disgraced, middle-aged art historian, overly fond of the bottle and of his fresh young students. But everything will change now that he’s on the trail of a lost masterpiece.
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  • Beloved
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
    Hardcover: Jan 1987
    Paperback: Jun 2004
     
    Beloved is Morrison's undisputed masterpiece. It elegantly captures her trademark touches: elegant prose, fantastical occurrences, striking characters, and racial tension.
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  • Below Stairs
    Below Stairs : The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey
    by Margaret Powell
    Hardcover: Jan 2012
    Paperback: Dec 2012
     
    Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants, Margaret Powell's classic memoir of her time in service is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped ...
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  • Beneath a Marble Sky
    Beneath a Marble Sky
    by John Shors
    Hardcover: Jun 2004
    Paperback: Jun 2006
     
    Shors recreates an historical Hindustan brimming with breathtaking intrigue and containing the secret truth of the Taj Mahal for a world still in awe of its enduring majesty.
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  • The Berlin Exchange
    The Berlin Exchange : A Novel
    by Joseph Kanon
    Hardcover: Feb 2022
    Paperback: Mar 2023
     
    From "master of the genre" (the Washington Post) Joseph Kanon, an espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is swapped by the British and returns to East Berlin needing to know who ...
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  • Beta Vulgaris
    Beta Vulgaris : A Novel
    by Margie Sarsfield
    Paperback: Feb 2025
     
    A young woman's seasonal job working a sugar beet harvest takes a surreal turn in this surprising and vivid debut.
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  • The Betrayal
    The Betrayal : A Novel
    by Helen Dunmore
    Hardcover: Sep 2011
    Paperback: Sep 2011
     
    A riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of post-war Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror, where the severest acts of betrayal can come from the most trusted allies.
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  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    Between a Rock and a Hard Place
    by Aron Ralston
    Hardcover: Sep 2004
    Paperback: Aug 2005
     
    A brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life which will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories.
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