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Ballistics: Poems

by Billy Collins

Published: 2010-02-16

Paperback: 128 pages

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In this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects—love, death, solitude, youth, and aging—delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.

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* * * * Fun,
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The Ballroom on Magnolia Street

by Sharon Owens

Published: 2006-02-02

Paperback: 400 pages

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Shirley Winters is a daydreamer who loves vintage clothes and 80's music. She is also in love with gorgeous Declan Greenwood and can't believe her luck when her crush is rewarded with a swift marriage proposal. Older sister Kate, who enjoys collecting handbags and lovers with equal relish, is less than...

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Balls of Leather and Steel

by Guy Butler

Published: 2011-01-07

Paperback: 432 pages

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This story has balls….. the leather and steel kind! Since the day he was born, Malcolm McClain led a charmed life. By his mid-twenties he was a household name throughout Europe, recognized as one of the finest professional soccer players in the world. At the start of World War II, Malky joins the Royal...

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Baltasar and Blimunda

by Jose Saramago

Published: 1998-11-05

Paperback: 360 pages

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From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a ?brilliant...enchanting novel? (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

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Baltazar I Blimunda

by Jose Saramago

Published: 1999

Hardcover: 390 pages

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Jan V, wladca Portugalii na poczqtku XVIII wieku, pragnie syna i slubuje po jego narodzinach wzniesc ogromny klasztor. Gdy krolowa zachodzi w ciqze, przyszly ojciec, chcqc dotrzymac obietnicy, kladzie kamicn weglelny pod badowc monumentalncj bazyliki. W tym samym czasic - czasie plonacych stosow inkwizycji...

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Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

by Laura Lippman

Published: 1997-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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"Courier New" Until her paper, the BALTIMORE STAR, crashed and burned, Tess Monaghan was a damn good reporter who knew her hometown intimately--from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at twenty-nine, she's willing to take any freelance ...

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Baltoji Gelele Ir Paslaptingoji Vednuokle (Lithuanian translation of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)

by Lisa See

Published: 2005

Hardcover: 0 pages

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5.5 x 8.5 inches. 335 pages. Lithuanian translation of Lisa See's novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.

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* * * Interesting,
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

by Dai Sijie

Published: 2002-10-29

Paperback: 184 pages

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New York Times BestsellerBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-ed...

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Banana Heart Summer

by Merlinda Bobis

Published: 2008-05-20

Paperback: 257 pages

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In her lush, luminous debut novel, Merlinda Bobis creates a dazzling feast for all the senses. Richly imagined, gloriously written, Banana Heart Summer is an incandescent tale of food, family, and longing?at once a love letter to mothers and daughters and a lively celebration of friendship...

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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

by Dan Koeppel

Published: 2008-12-30

Paperback: 304 pages

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In the vein of the bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world's most popular fruit In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana's history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Ko...