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The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers

by Eric Hansen

Published: 2005-10-18

Paperback: 240 pages

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Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California....

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* * * * Difficult,
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The Bird Sisters: A Novel

by Rebecca Rasmussen

Published: 2011-04-12

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Love is timeless. So too is heartbreak.Whenever a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds' heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can't, while Milly listens to the heartaches of the people who've brou...

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Birdman

by Mo Hayder

Published: 2012-07-03

Paperback: 0 pages

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Now in Grove Press paperback for the first time, Birdman showcases Hayder at her spine-tingling best as beloved series character Jack Caffery tracks down a terrifying serial killer.In his first case as lead investigator with London’s crack murder squad, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery i...

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Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, Book 2)

by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2005-08-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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Jacqueline Winspear’s marvelous and inspired debut, Maisie Dobbs, won her fans from coast to coast and raised her intuitive, intelligent, and resourceful heroine to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Birds of a Feather finds Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adven...

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Birds of America: Stories

by Lorrie Moore

Published: 1999-09-23

Paperback: 304 pages

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A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Pulishers Weekly Best Book of the YearBirds of America is a stunning collection of twelve stories by Lorrie Moore, one of our finest authors at work today. With her characteristic wit and piercing intelligence she unfolds...

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Birds of Paradise: A Novel

by Diana Abu-Jaber

Published: 2011-09-06

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A multilayered, beautifully textured novel about family and self, self-indulgence and generosity, against the vivid backdrop of contemporary Miami.In the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the disappearance of their ineffably beautiful daughter, Felic...

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Birds Without Wings

by Louis de Bernieres

Published: 2005-06-28

Paperback: 576 pages

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In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the ...

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Birdsong

by Sabastian Faulks

Published: 2011-04-01

Paperback: 96 pages

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An adaptation of the novel which has been is one of the most consistent selling books of the last decade, continuously in the top 5,000 sales figures. This is a beautiful and terrible story about love, courage and the endurance of the human spirit.Readers who are entranced by the sweeping ...

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* * * Confusing,
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 2012-03-21

Kindle Edition: 498 pages

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Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair ...

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* * * Adventurous,
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Birdwing

by Rafe Martin

Published: 2007-02-01

Paperback: 359 pages

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A boy marked by physical difference--one arm is an enchanted wing--finds his strength and purpose in this stirring fantasy. A Washington Post Best Kids Book of 2005 and Book Sense Winter Pick.Once upon a time, a girl rescued her seven brothers from a spell that had turned them into swans. ...