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Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox found master Li Kao. Together they set out to find the Great Root of Power, ... -
Breaking Blue - Timothy Egan
From Publishers WeeklyIn 1935, Spokane, Wash., was in the sixth year of the Great Depression. Unemployment was high. Civilian Conservation Corps workers were arriving in droves fro... -
Bottlemania - Elizabeth Royte
From Publishers WeeklyRoyte (_Garbage Land_) plunges into America's mighty thirst for bottled water in an investigation of one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth and ... -
Blood and Gold, Or, the Story o - Anne Rice
The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once ment... -
Bless the Beasts - Karen Haber
In desperate need of crucial repairs, the Starship Voyager has come to Sardalia, a planet blessed with great natural beauty and apparently friendly inhabitants. ... -
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
SUMMARY: Considered one of Dickens's greatest works, "Bleak House" scathingly portrays his belief: "The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself." Peop... -
Blackout - Connie Willis
SUMMARY: In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds... -
Birchwood - John Banville
Review“This is one of the most startling of the century's varied achievements in Irish writing.”—Seamus Deane "John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English lang... -
Beowulf - Anonymous
SUMMARY: Written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., this classic tale describes the adventures of a great Danish warrior of the sixth century -
Baking Cakes in Kigali - Gaile Parkin
SUMMARY: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives....