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The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir

by Josh Kilmer-purcell

Published: 2010-06-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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What happens when two New Yorkers (one an ex?drag queen) do the unthinkable: start over, have a herd of kids, and get a little dirty? Find out in this riotous and moving true tale of goats, mud, and a centuries-old mansion in rustic upstate New York?the new memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purce...

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Bud, Not Buddy (Readers Circle (Laurel-Leaf))

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Published: 2004-09-14

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan, and when 10-year-old Bud decides to hit the road to find his father, nothing can stop him.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Buddenbrooks

by Thomas Mann

Published: 1992-03-31

Paperback: 604 pages

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A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -...

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Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment

by Deepak Chopra

Published: 2008-02-26

Paperback: 278 pages

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Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this gripping New York Times bestselling novel about the young prince who abandoned his inheritance to discover his true calling. This iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the...

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Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

by Rick Hanson

Published: 2009-11-01

Paperback: 251 pages

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Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of co...

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Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man

by Brian McGrory

Published: 2012-11-13

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Award-winning journalist Brian McGrory goes head to beak in a battle royale with another male for a top-spot in his home, vying for dominance with the family's pet rooster.    Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, ...

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Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch

by Dan O'Brien

Published: 2002-10-08

Paperback: 272 pages

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Buffalo Girls : A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2001-11-13

Paperback: 352 pages

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In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: "Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity...

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Buffalo Lockjaw

by Greg Ames

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 290 pages

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"Buffalo Lockjaw, like its charming, bitter screw-up of a narrator, reaches finally for larger meaning, and succeeds. . . . A brazen and tender book about a city and a scene, a mother and a son, and the beauty and pain of several kinds of love." --Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land "Ame...

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The Buffalo Soldier: A Novel

by Chris Bohjalian

Published: 2003-02-25

Paperback: 432 pages

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With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents a resonant novel about the unconventional family that forms after Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont storm trooper and his wife grieving the loss of their twin daughters, take in a foster ...