Behind Closed Doors
Grace seems to have a perfect marriage to Jack, until her sister and a friend see the locks and rules.
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Beloved
Sethe lives with the memory of killing her child to save her from slavery until a young woman named Beloved arrives.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Pino Lella guides Jews over Alps then drives for Nazis in Milan.
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Better than the Movies
A rom com obsessed senior hires her annoying next door neighbor to win her crush, then finds real love is messier and kinder than any movie plot.
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Between the World and Me
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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Big Little Lies
In Pirriwee three mothers collide over school, marriage, and secrets until a trivia night death forces the truth about Perry abuse, Celeste fear, and Jane past.
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Birthday Girl
Homeless Jordan moves in with boyfriend Cole and his father Pike sparking tension.
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Fast judgments can beat analysis, and fail hard, in Gladwell's 2005 book on snap thinking.
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Book Lovers
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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Born a Crime
Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto.
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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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Brave New World
Huxley's Brave New World retold: hatcheries, soma, Bernard and Lenina, John the Savage, and the lighthouse.
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