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Sharp literary agent Nora Stephens gets dragged to small-town Sunshine Falls with her sister and keeps colliding with brooding editor Charlie Lastra.
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Books: B
140 books starting with B.
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Born a Crime
Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto.
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Born at Midnight
Kylie Galen is sent to a camp for troubled teens and discovers it is a haven for vampires, werewolves, and witches, and that she may be something stranger…
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin's memoir of how a shy Disneyland magician's assistant built a strange avant-garde act, and why he walked away from stand-up at his peak.
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Born to Run
A hurt runner seeks the Tarahumara of Copper Canyons, finds Caballo Blanco, and joins a hidden fifty mile race about why people run.
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Bossypants
Tina Fey moves from Pennsylvania childhood through improv and SNL to 30 Rock in this funny 2011 memoir. Expect backstage stories, jokes about work and…
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Bound by Honor
An arranged mafia marriage between a Chicago girl and a New York heir turns to love.
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Boyfriend Material
A tabloid-haunted charity worker fakes a romance with a straitlaced barrister in this funny 2020 London rom-com.
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Braiding Sweetgrass
A Potawatomi botanist braids plant science with family stories to argue for gratitude and return gifts to the living world.
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
A young reporter loses her mind to a rare brain illness and must rebuild from notes and video she hates to watch.
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Brave New World
Huxley's Brave New World retold: hatcheries, soma, Bernard and Lenina, John the Savage, and the lighthouse.
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Braving the Wilderness: The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone
Belonging to yourself first lets you stand alone and still stay close to others.
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Brawler
Nine fierce stories spanning the 1950s to today, following swimmers, siblings and heirs torn between their dark and light angels.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
A writer recalls his 1943 neighbor Holly Golightly, wild and kind, in a Manhattan brownstone, plus three short stories from Capote's 1958 collection.
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Breakfast of Champions
A Pontiac dealer breaks down while a broke sci-fi writer brings the book that tells him others are robots.
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Breaking Dawn
Breaking Dawn retold: Bella and Edward marry, Renesmee arrives, the Volturi gather in Forks snow.
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Journalist James Nestor investigates how modern humans learned to breathe badly, and what researchers, athletes, and breathwork practitioners have found about…
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Bride
Vampire Misery enters an arranged marriage with Alpha Lowe to protect her friend.
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Brideshead Revisited
At Oxford Charles Ryder befriends Sebastian Flyte and falls into the Catholic Marchmain family, from Brideshead summers to Julia's affair and Lord Marchmain's…
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Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia retold: Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke build an imagined kingdom and face sudden loss.
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget doubts Mark, takes a job with Daniel, and lands in trouble in Thailand.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
Thirty-something Bridget Jones logs calories, cigarettes and bad dates in London while torn between Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy.
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Bright Young Women
Pamela survives a 1978 sorority attack and joins Tina, grieving Ruth, to pursue the man the papers mythologize.
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Bring Me Back
Finn lost Layla at a French rest stop twelve years ago. Now engaged to her sister Ellen, he faces sightings, emails and Russian dolls that reopen everything.
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