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Title	Author	Description
Belchamber Belchamber	Howard Sturgis Sturgis	Howard Sturgis was close friends with Henry James and Edith Wharton. "More Jamesian than the Master in hinting at melodrama yet keeping it at arm's length, Sturgis is an absolute modern in stirring up tensions on behalf of one of the quietest heroes in British fiction." —The New Republic Contributors: Edmund White , E.M. Forster
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates Between the Woods and the Water	Patrick Leigh Fermor Fermor	Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts. Contributors: Jan Morris
Beware of Pity Beware of Pity	Stefan Zweig Zweig	The most widely read author writing in German prior to the rise of the Nazis, Zweig captures the torment of betrayal in a powerful study of affliction. Contributors: Joan Acocella , Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt
The Big Clock Big Clock	Kenneth Fearing Fearing	How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir. Contributors: Nicholas Christopher
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby Black Sun	Geoffrey Wolff Wolff	Black Sun is master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's picture of a brilliant and self-destructive man who sought to make his life into a work of art.
Blood on the Forge Blood on the Forge	William Attaway Attaway	A savage vision of the Great Migration told through a bleak and harrowing story of three brothers. Contributors: Darryl Pinckney
The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved Bog People	P.V. Glob Glob	Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe. Contributors: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber , Rupert Bruce-Mitford
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays Bolt from the Blue	Mary McCarthy McCarthy	"Fierce, provocative, and lovely, a collection of small masterpieces, by one of the twentieth century's most dazzling minds." —Katie Roiphe Contributors: A.O. Scott
A Book of Mediterranean Food Book of Mediterranean Food	Elizabeth David David	Long acknowledged as the inspiration for such modern masters as Julia Child and Claudia Roden, A Book of Mediterranean Food is Elizabeth David's passionate mixture of recipes, culinary lore, and frank talk. Contributors: Clarissa Dickson Wright
The Book of My Life Book of My Life	Girolamo Cardano Cardano	At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait. Contributors: Anthony Grafton , Jean Stoner