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The Black Pearl

by Scott O'Dell

Published: 2010-04-12

Paperback: 144 pages

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From the depths of a cave in the Vermilion Sea, Ramon Salazar has wrested a black pearl so lustrous and captivating that his father, an expert pearl dealer, is certain Ramon has found the legendary Pearl of Heaven. Such a treasure is sure to bring great joy to the villagers of their tiny c...

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The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)

by Iris Murdoch

Published: 2003-03

Paperback: 448 pages

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Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who ...

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Black Rose: In the Garden Trilogy

by Nora Roberts

Published: 2005-05-31

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel of her In the Garden trilogy (following Blue Dahlia), as three women must discover the secrets from the past contained within their historic home... Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for...

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The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America's First Black Female Millionaire

by Tananarive Due

Published: 2001-01-02

Paperback: 384 pages

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Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful beauty company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes. Renowned author Alex Haley...

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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...