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  • Beautiful Little Fools
    Beautiful Little Fools : A Novel
    by Jillian Cantor
    Hardcover: Feb 2022
    Paperback: Feb 2022
     
    USA Today bestselling author Jillian Cantor reimagines and expands on the literary classic The Great Gatsby in this atmospheric historical novel with echoes of Big Little Lies, told in three women's alternating voices.
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  • The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
    The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears : A Novel
    by Dinaw Mengestu
    Hardcover: Mar 2007
    Paperback: Feb 2008
     
    A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-...
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  • Beautiful World, Where Are You
    Beautiful World, Where Are You
    by Sally Rooney
    Hardcover: Sep 2021
    Paperback: Jun 2022
     
    Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
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  • Beauty in the Broken Places
    Beauty in the Broken Places : A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
    by Allison Pataki
    Hardcover: May 2018
    Paperback: May 2019
     
    A deeply moving memoir about a young couple whose lives were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future.
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  • The Beauty of Humanity Movement
    The Beauty of Humanity Movement : A Novel
    by Camilla Gibb
    Hardcover: Mar 2011
    Paperback: Feb 2012
     
    This deeply observed novel of contemporary Vietnam interweaves stories of a venerable soup seller, a young Vietnamese American curator, and an enterprising tour guide in ways that will mark all of their lives forever.
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  • Beautyland
    Beautyland : A Novel
    by Marie-Helene Bertino
    Hardcover: Jan 2024
    Paperback: Jan 2025
     
    A wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth, by the acclaimed author of Parakeet.
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  • Because of Winn-Dixie
    Because of Winn-Dixie
    by Kate DiCamillo
    Hardcover: Mar 2000
    Paperback: Sep 2001
     
    Take one disarmingly engaging protagonist and put her in the company of a tenderly rendered canine, and you've got yourself a recipe for the best kind of down-home literary treat. Kate DiCamillo's voice in Because of Winn-Dixie should carry ...
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  • Becoming
    Becoming
    by Michelle Obama
    Hardcover: Nov 2018
    Paperback: Mar 2021
     
    Winner of the 2019 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award

    An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
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