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Guardians of the Wild Unicorns

Guardians of the Wild Unicorns
  • Author(s): Lindsay Littleson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

‘Across the moor galloped a huge dark beast; a heavily muscled horse with a gleaming, rippling black mane. The animal reared up, its hooves cutting the sky, its silken tail streaming like a banner. Its spiralled horn glinted in...

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): late 20th century

A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea’s two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman. This volume gives a...

Guilty Party

Guilty Party
  • Author(s): Candy Denman
  • Location(s): Hastings
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): present

Curiosity about a strangled lawyer leads police doctor Callie Hughes along a bumpy road to the truth When a lawyer is found dead in his home, the circumstances are indeed strange, if not wholly suspicious. An act of auto-eroticisation...

Gun Island

Gun Island
  • Author(s): Amitav Ghosh
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi
  • Era(s): Modern

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta’s world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced...

Gun Kiss

Gun Kiss
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

When the Deringer pistol that shot Abraham Lincoln is stolen and ends up in the hands of a Russian military general, covert agent Blake Deco is tasked by the FBI to head to the Balkans to recover the historical...

Hadji Murad

Hadji Murad
  • Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but many of Leo Tolstoy’s works remain obscure today. This short novel, published posthumously and recommended by Harold Bloom in his Western Canon,...

Hag Storm

Hag Storm
  • Author(s): Victoria Williamson, Elise Carmichael (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1771

In 1771, Robert Burns, future national poet and folk hero of Scotland, has big problems. 12-year-old Rab spends all of his time doing backbreaking work on his family’s farm instead of attending school, but when he finds a hag...

Halcyon

Halcyon
  • Author(s): Rio Youers
  • Location(s): Lake Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Halcyon is the answer for anyone who wants to escape, but paradise isn’t what it seems. A self-sustaining community on a breathtakingly beautiful island, Halcyon is run for people who want to live without fear, crime or greed. Its...

Half a World Away

Half a World Away
  • Author(s): Sue Haasler
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Charming and talented Alex dreams of becoming a professional saxophonist while working long hours in the family bakery. Detlef, lonely, repressed, and a small-time Stasi informer, develops an obsessive love for him. But Alex has eyes only for Nicky,...

Half Broke Horses

Half Broke Horses
  • Author(s): Jeannette Walls
  • Location(s): Arizona, Texas
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Half Broke Horses, set in Texas and Arizona, is a true life novel of Lily Casey Smith, author Jeannette Walls’s sassy, swaggering pioneer grandma. Fans of Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle will appreciate going deeper into the Walls family...

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