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Nishant Batsha
A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart

Named a Summer Read by: New York Times * Los Angeles Times * Minneapolis Star Tribune * The MillionsAn expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of W…

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Nishant Batsha
A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart

"An expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I. At a party near Stanford University's campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate stude…

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Muharem Bazdulj
Byron and the Beauty

Byron and the Beauty is very loosely based on Byron's biography and takes place during two weeks of October 1809, during his visit to the Balkans. Besides being great love story, this is also a novel abou…

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Rachel Beanland
The Half Life

From the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wife's reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atom…

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Hans Peter Bech,
The Dollar Compass

August 1985. The Cold War is shifting-quietly, unpredictably-and the stakes are enormous.When Danish computer salesman Henrik Bertelsen becomes involved in a bold plan to supply advanced American computer…

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Laney Katz Becker
In the Family Way

"A novel in the vein of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives and a teenage unwed mother as they navigate their pregnancies-both wanted…

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Laney Katz Becker
In the Family Way

"In the Family Way bursts with the complexity, drama, and warmth of Call the Midwife, but set at the canasta and kitchen tables of 1960s suburban America. This timely, timeless novel captures not onl…

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Mathieu Belezi,
Attacking Earth and Sun

"This searing historical novel immerses us in the brutal early days of the nineteenth-century French colonization of Algeria. In search of a prosperous life, Sâeraphine and her family brave the dange…

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A. R. Bender
The Black Bow

Erich, a former Protestant soldier living in southern Germany during the Thirty Years' War, struggles to keep his family together after the Catholics took their ancestral home and properties three years e…

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Melanie Benjamin
The Windsor Affair

A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American social climber. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of Th…

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John Berger
G.

In this Booker Prize-winning classic, a Casanova-esque young man searches for philosophical and sexual fulfillment as he seduces his way across Europe on the eve of World War I.John Berger's picaresque wo…

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Barbara Bergmann
Counterpoint

Counterpoint is the tale of two women's love -- lived in terror by one and in celebration by the other. A lesbian in the time of Oscar Wilde, an era when shades of grey did not exist in any perception of …

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Franco Bernini,
The Throne

This meticulously researched and brilliantly told historical novel, the first of the Machiavelli trilogy, recounts the enigmatic life of Niccolò Machiavelli, revealing the complex man behind the infamous …

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Tesni Bevan
Poppies Grow on Broken Ground

"Gripping human story ... passages on the front-line among the best I have ever read ... rich and interesting insight into Welsh life during the 'war to end all wars.'" Dafydd Iwan, singer-songw…

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Annie Bien, Robert Thurman
The Magical Adventures of the Sixth Dalai Lama

"Annie Bien and Robert Thurman invite us into the secret heart of the Sixth Dalai Lama, where poetry and politics dance as one." Deepak Chopra, author and spiritual teacherAnnie Bien and Robert …

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Eleanor Birney
The Green Baize Door

In the fashionable mansions on Chestnut Hill, a simple green baize door separates the masters' world from the servants'. That door is thrown wide when an elderly housekeeper is found brutally murdered on …

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Rebecca Birrell
Venus, Vanishing

"A richly textured, gorgeously written debut that I couldn't put down." -Joanna Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Whalebone Theatre Portrait of a Lady on Fire meets The Safekeepin …

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Cara Black
Huguette

In the lawlessness of post--World War II France, a resilient young woman fights to survive and make a living, no matter the cost---from the New York Times bestselling author of Three Hours in Parisand the…

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Giovanni Boccaccio, Guido Waldman,
The Decameron

The Decameron (c. 1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, te…

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Chris Bohjalian
The Jackal's Mistress

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER • In this Civil War love story, inspired by a real-life friendship across enemy lines, the wife of a missing Confederate sol…

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