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The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest

by Dan Buettner

Published: 2010-10-19

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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In this expanded paperback edition of his New York Times bestseller, longevity expert Dan Buettner draws on his research from extraordinarily long-lived communities?Blue Zones?around the globe to highlight the lifestyle, diet, outlook, and stress-coping practices that will add years to ...

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Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)

by Karyn R. Lacy

Published: 2007-07-03

Paperback: 302 pages

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As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic...

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Blue-Eyed Devil

by Lisa Kleypas

Published: 2009-03-03

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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His name is Hardy Cates. He's a self-made millionaire who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. He's made enemies in the rough-and-tumble ride to the top of Houston's oil industry. He's got hot blood in his veins. And vengeance on his mind. She's Haven Travis. Despite her family's money...

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Bluebeard (Delta Fiction)

by Kurt Vonnegut

Published: 1998-09-08

Paperback: 336 pages

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Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut...

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Blueberry Muffin Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)

by Joanne Fluke

Published: 2003-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction

by Elissa Schappell

Published: 2012-07-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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Blueprints for Building Better Girls delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters—from the high school slut to the good girl, the struggling artist to the college party girl, the wife who yearns for a child to the reluctant mother—mapping America’s shifti...

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Blues from the Malabar Coast

by Nalini Warriar

Published: 2002-05-01

Paperback: 144 pages

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Winner of the 2002 McAuslan First Book Award, Blues from the Malabar Coast is a collection of 12 delightful linked stories that begin in a small village on India's Malabar coast. The Variyars are a traditional matriarchal family, large and close-knit,their children are numerous and spoilt,...

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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

by Angela Y. Davis

Published: 1999-01-26

Paperback: 464 pages

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The author of "Women, Race and Class" suggests that "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday represent a black working-class, feminist ideology and historical consciousness. Davis' illuminating analysis of the songs performed by these artists provides readers with a compelling and tra...

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The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)

by Toni Morrison

Published: 2000-04-26

Paperback: 224 pages

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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for ...

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The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)

by Toni Morrison

Published: 2007-05-08

Paperback: 206 pages

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New York Times BestsellerPecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit i...