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Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel

by Gaile Parkin

Published: 2009-08-18

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent?and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale'set ...

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Balance of Power

by Richard North Patterson

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 611 pages

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The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author confronts one of America's most emotional and divisive issues--gun violence--in this novel of politics, law, and power.

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Balance, Peace, Harmony Journal

by Charlotte Hall

Published: 2010-04-23

Paperback: 204 pages

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Charlotte Hall the Best Selling Author of Women Give Men Too Much Power is a single mother of twin daughters that lives in the DFW area of Texas. She found that writing was a way to express some of your most intimate thoughts while healing from some of the most tumultuous and difficult times this journal...

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Balancing Acts: A Novel

by Zoe Fishman

Published: 2010-03-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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A poignant debut novel about the transformative powers of yoga and friendship for four women on the verge of realizing their dreams With beauty, brains, and a high-paying Wall Street position, Charlie was a woman who seemed to have it all?until she turned thirty and took stock of her ...

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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

by Karen Cushman

Published: 1998-04-03

Paperback: 218 pages

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Dear Gram and Grampop,Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning Whipple being a foolish name for a duck much less a girl. I call myself Lucy now. I cannot hate California and be California. I know you will understand.California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple --...

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The Ballad of Tom Dooley: A Ballad Novel

by Sharyn McCrumb

Published: 2011-09-13

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A literary triumph?what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura FosterHang down your head, Tom Dooley?The folk song, made famous...

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The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart

by M. Glenn Taylor

Published: 2008-06-01

Paperback: 276 pages

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The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart: A Novel

by Glenn Taylor

Published: 2009-06-16

Paperback: 288 pages

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Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and to survive the taunts of others. In the hills of southern West Virginia, a boy grows...

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The Ballad of West Tenth Street: A Novel (P.S.)

by Marjorie Kernan

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 306 pages

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Once upon a time in Manhattan . . . . . . there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty. Behind the blue door lived Sadie, the widow of a famous British rocker who d...

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Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

by Maggie Stiefvater

Published: 2009-10-01

Paperback: 353 pages

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF�THE�NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING NOVEL SHIVER "Ballad is giddy, intoxicating, and threatening all at once. ?Tamora Pierce Remember us, so sing the dead, lest we remember you James Morgan has an almost unearthly gift for music. And it has attracted Nuala, a soul-snat...