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A Bird Came Down the Walk: Selected Bird Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, Ernest Seton Thompson
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021
A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (Adam Pelko, #1)
Harry Mazer
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002
A Boy Called Bat (A Boy Called Bat, #1)
Illustr. Charles Santoso, Elana K. Arnold, Charles Santoso
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
Gwendolyn Brooks
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F. Kuang
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L.W. West III
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Gabriel García Márquez
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1983
Balto and the Great Race
Nora Koerber, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie, Ina Rilke, Transl. Ina Rilke
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics [Updated Edition]
Cynthia Enloe
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Stephen E. Ambrose
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship
Gregory Boyle
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Barnaby Rudge
Hablot Knight Browne, Charles Dickens, John Bowen
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Zora Neale Hurston
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua, Amy Chua
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
Stephen Manes, Tom Huffman
Fiction | Novel | Published in 1998
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Robin McKinley
Fiction | Novel | Published in 1993
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers
Michelle Obama
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2021
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court
Raymond Obstfeld, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Dawud Anyabwile, James Patterson, Kwame Alexander
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2020
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
Amy Ellis Nutt
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
Joe Dispenza
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #3)
Geoffrey Trousselot, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Transl. Geoffrey Trousselot
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2022
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017