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Girl Racers

Girl Racers
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Winning the race is one thing, but can Alex be a winner in love? Tomboy lawyer Alex Reilly loves nothing better than coming first – except her sexy red Lotus sports car. Preparing for the gruelling Snowy Mountains Car...

Girl Soldier

Girl Soldier
  • Author(s): Faith J H McDonnell
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

For several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders. More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years and...

Girl Through Glass

Girl Through Glass
  • Author(s): Sari Wilson
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

An enthralling literary debut that tells the story of a young girl’s coming of age in the cutthroat world of New York City ballet–a story of obsession and the quest for perfection, trust and betrayal, beauty and lost innocence....

Girl Waits with Gun

Girl Waits with Gun
  • Author(s): Amy Stewart
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914

Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen...

Girl Zero

Girl Zero
  • Author(s): A A Dhand
  • Location(s): Bradford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Answering a routine call on the outskirts of the city, Detective Inspector Harry Virdee finds something he never thought he’d have to face – the cold body of his beloved niece. He’s immediately banned from working the case, but...

Girl, Woman, Other

Girl, Woman, Other
  • Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly...

Girls

Girls
  • Author(s): Kirsty Capes
  • Location(s): California, Arizona, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This novel first appeared under the title “Daughters” When Mattie and Nora’s mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned Norwegian painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise she asked her daughters to make: Burn it all....

Girls at War (6 Chelsea Walk)

Girls at War (6 Chelsea Walk)
  • Author(s): Ann Turnbull
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1941, WW2, Blitz

When Josie goes to stay with her cousin Edith, she’s glad to be starting a new life away from the shame that has haunted her family since her brother chose not to fight in the war. But Edith’s friends...

Girls Behind the Camera (6 Chelsea Walk)

Girls Behind the Camera (6 Chelsea Walk)
  • Author(s): Adèle Geras
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1895, Victorian Era

Cecily is enchanted when she meets photographer Rosalind, and soon longs to learn more about this “art of the future” and become a famous photographer herself. Believing Rosalind to be the perfect match for her widowed father, Cecily conspires...

Girls Burn Brighter

Girls Burn Brighter
  • Author(s): Shobha Rao
  • Location(s): India, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her...

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