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The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel

by Katherine Center

Published: 2008-04-08

Paperback: 271 pages

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Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is exactly what you’ve been waiting for.Very pregnant and not quite married, Jenny Harris doesn’t mind that she and her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned. But Dean is acting distant, and the ...

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Bright Young Things

by Anna Godbersen

Published: 2010-10-12

Kindle Edition: 404 pages

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The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty w...

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Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Published: 2010-08-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAmericans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive is the key to getting success and prosperity. Or so we are told.In this utterly original debunking...

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Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Published: 2009-10-13

Hardcover: 235 pages

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A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realismAmericans are a ?positive? people?cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we a...

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The Brightest Star in the Sky

by Marian Keyes

Published: 2009-10-30

Paperback: 400 pages

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A wry and life-affirming tale-and the Irish literary star's latest New York Times bestseller. Marian Keyes's inimitable blend of rollicking humor, effervescent prose, and captivating stories that deal with real-life issues have won readers around the globe. Reminiscent of the blockbuster ...

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The Brightest Star in the Sky: A Novel

by Marian Keyes

Published: 2011-07-26

Paperback: 480 pages

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A wry and life-affirming tale-and the Irish literary star's latest New York Times bestseller. Marian Keyes's inimitable blend of rollicking humor, effervescent prose, and captivating stories that deal with real-life issues have won readers around the globe. Reminiscent of the blockbuster...

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Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Graham Greene

Published: 2004-09-28

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..." Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, de...

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Bright's Passage: A Novel

by Josh Ritter

Published: 2011-06-28

Hardcover: 208 pages

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?Bright's Passage shines with a compressed lyricism that recalls Ray Bradbury in his prime?This is the work of a gifted novelist?? ? Stephen King, The New York Times Book ReviewJosh Ritter's first novel is a wondrous, suspenseful, and uniquely affecting story of the journey taken by a f...

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Brilliant

by Marne Davis Kellogg

Published: 2003-12-02

Hardcover: 444 pages

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Meet Kick Keswick, an elegant and self-possessed American who has been at London's venerable Ballantine & Company Auctioneer, Ltd., for over thirty years. She is an expert on paintings, furniture, and objets d'art, and so far has lived a perfectly happy life with things on her mind other than love. She...

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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

by Jane Brox

Published: 2010-07-08

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabri...