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Black Sheep

by Georgette Heyer

Published: 2008-06-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Black Star, Bright Dawn

by Scott O'Dell

Published: 2008-02-18

Paperback: 144 pages

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In this redesigned edition of Scott O'Dell's classic novel, a young Eskimo girl encounters frightening obstacles when she takes her father's place in the Iditarod, the annual 1,172-mile dogsled race in Alaska.Most young girls' experiences never involve hunting bearded seals on the ice, eve...

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Black Swan Green

by David Mitchell

Published: 2006-07

Hardcover: 598 pages

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David Mitchell comes home - to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village ("Black Swan Green") in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth. And he stammers. 13 chapters,...

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Published: 2007-04-17

Hardcover: 366 pages

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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a blac...

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The Black Tattoo

by Sam Enthoven

Published: 2008-01-10

Paperback: 528 pages

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Jack's best friend, Charlie, is in serious trouble, possessed by an ancient demon called the Scourge who plans to use Charlie to bring about its evil ends?which, unfortunately, involve the destruction of the entire universe.Now Jack and the butt-kicking, sword-wielding Esme must contend wi...

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Black Thunder: An Ella Clah Novel (Ella Clah Novels)

by Aimee Thurlo, David Thurlo

Published: 2011-10-25

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A construction crew found the first body. The cops found three more, in a cluster that lay on both sides of the border of the Navajo Reservation.Because some of the bodies were buried outside the Rez, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah and her team must work a delicate joint inve...

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The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #5)

by P. D. James

Published: 2001-09

Paperback: 346 pages

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Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the shadow of death about to fall once more? "Splendid, m...

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The Black Tower

by Louis Bayard

Published: 2008-08-26

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Vidocq! Master of disguise and chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian underworld of 1818?and the inconsequential life of Hector Carpentier is violently shaken when Vidocq storms into it. A former medical stu...

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The Black Tulip

by Alexandre Dumas

Published: 2006-08-17

Paperback: 262 pages

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A story of romantic love in Holland during the Renaissance, this historical novel describes the murder of John de Witte and his brother Cornelius under the hands of tyrants. And the black tulip? A symbol of justice and the end of oppression.

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Black Water

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 1993-05-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys “Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates's already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a...