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Blackbird House

by Alice Hoffman

Published: 2005-07-07

Paperback: 240 pages

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From the great May storm in 1778 when John Hadley and his sons slip the British blockade off the coast of Massachusetts only to disappear at sea, the lives of the inhabitants of the wooden farmhouse on the cape, stranded amid fields of sweet peas and wild fruit vines and red pear trees, coil and weave...

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Blackbird House (Hoffman, Alice)

by Alice Hoffman

Published: 2004-07-20

Hardcover: 240 pages

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With ?incantatory prose? that 'sweeps over the reader like a dream,? (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years....

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Blackbox: A Novel in 840 Chapters

by Nick Walker

Published: 2003

Paperback: 320 pages

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A dark, complex, and stunning debut novel in the tradition of Palahniuk and Ballard, this is a highly original and wildly morbid story about a disparate group of people connected by an airplane accident.

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Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

by Sara Paretsky

Published: 2004-08-31

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

by M. Stanton Evans

Published: 2007-11-06

Hardcover: 672 pages

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Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his deat...

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Blackout

by Connie Willis

Published: 2010-09-14

Paperback: 512 pages

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Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill's next...

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Blackout (The Newsflesh Trilogy)

by Mira Grant

Published: 2012-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 672 pages

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Rise up while you can. -Georgia MasonThe year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set o...

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The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel

by Colm Toibin

Published: 2001-06-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each ...

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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

by Jeremy Scahill

Published: 2007-02-15

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Meet BLACKWATER USA, the world's most secretive and powerful mercenary firm. Based in the wilderness of North Carolina, it is the fastest-growing private army on the planet with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world. Blackwater protects the top US officials in I...

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The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)

by Joe Abercrombie

Published: 2007-09-06

Paperback: 536 pages

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Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Capta...