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G My Name Is Girl

G My Name Is Girl
  • Author(s): Dawn Masi
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Skip right into this joyful, diverse, alphabetic picture book celebrating girls around the world. A, my name is ALBA and my sister’s name is AYELÉN. We come from ARGENTINA and we are ADVENTUROUS. Girls from 26 different countries –...

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
  • Author(s): Jorge Amado
  • Location(s): Ilhéus
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

When Gabriela came to the Brazilian town of Ilhéus, things would never be the same again … In 1925, the town’s cacao plantations are flourishing and progress reigns, but Nacib the Arab’s most desperate worry is that his cook...

Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
  • Author(s): Suzanne Kamata
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Aiko Cassidy is fifteen and lives with her sculptor mother in a small Midwestern town. For most of her young life, Aiko, who has cerebral palsy, has been her mother’s muse. But now, she no longer wants to pose...

Gai-Jin

Gai-Jin
  • Author(s): James Clavell
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine...

Gaia, Queen of Ants

Gaia, Queen of Ants
  • Author(s): Hamid Ismailov
  • Location(s): Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day and mid-20th century

From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England. Domrul is a young Turk...

Gaijin

Gaijin
  • Author(s): Sarah Z Sleeper
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Japanese word gaijin means “unwelcome foreigner.” It’s not profanity, but is a slur directed at non-Japanese people in Japan. Lucy is a budding journalist at Northwestern University and she’s obsessed with an exotic new student, Owen Ota, who...

Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan

Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan
  • Author(s): Mark Panek
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1980s and 1990s

At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawaii for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan’s national sport, sumo. Five years later, against the backdrop of rising U.S.-Japan economic tension, Rowan...

Gallery of the Dead

Gallery of the Dead
  • Author(s): Chris Carter
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.’ That’s what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the...

Galliano Gold (Franki Amato Mysteries #5)

Galliano Gold (Franki Amato Mysteries #5)
  • Author(s): Traci Andrighetti
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, but PI Franki Amato has too many problems to celebrate. A proven Sicilian lemon tradition hasn’t landed her a proposal, so her nonna has amped up the meddling to get her married,...

Galore

Galore
  • Author(s): Michael Crummey
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage...

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