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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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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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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. ...

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Birth Cry: A Personal Story of the Life of Hannah D. Mitchell, Nurse Midwife

by Shirley Roland Ferguson

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 308 pages

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Birth Cry documents the journey of an obscure woman from a poor, hard-working Christian family in Missouri who achieves advanced education, acclaim and esteem in adulthood. With insight and humor, her story reveals how, through adversity, her life and character develop - into a life surrendered to God....

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The Birth House: A Novel (P.S.)

by Ami McKay

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 416 pages

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The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing and a kitchen filled with herbs and folk re...

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The Birth House: A Novel (P.S.)

by Ami McKay

Published: 2007-10-09

Paperback: 416 pages

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An arresting portrait of the struggles that women faced for control of their own bodies, The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare—the first daughter in five generations of Rares. As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss Babineau, Dora learns to assist the women of an i...

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Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

by Ina May Gaskin

Published: 2011-03-22

Paperback: 272 pages

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Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth?which has lead to nearly a third of hospi...