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Glowing Embers

Glowing Embers
  • Author(s): Paola Santana
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An enemies to lovers, slow burn, second chance romance for fans of Elena Armas, Ana Huang, and ‘Life as You Know It’ — multicultural and emotionally charged. The hottest attractions leave the deepest burns. When Marcelo lands in London,...

Go Down, Moses

Go Down, Moses
  • Author(s): William Faulkner
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1990s

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.”...

Go Seek

Go Seek
  • Author(s): Michelle Teahan
  • Location(s): Cork City, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

YOU LOOKED AWAY FOR JUST A MINUTE. Your daughter is gone, and only you can find her. Because you know exactly who took her. And they’re making her pay for your past. To save one child, you must leave...

Go Tell it on the Mountain

Go Tell it on the Mountain
  • Author(s): James Baldwin
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

‘I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.’ Drawing on James Baldwin’s own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes....

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 1700s

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. It is 1779 and Claire...

Go West

Go West
  • Author(s): David Quantick
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Current

GO WEST is a novel about Charlie Bread, self-styled Antiques Whisperer and forgery hunter. When Charlie is sent on the trail of a mysterious document that may have been written by the inventor of Peter Pan, his life becomes...

Go: A Coming of Age Novel

Go: A Coming of Age Novel
  • Author(s): Kazuki Kaneshiro
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As a Korean student in a Japanese high school, Sugihara has had to defend himself against all kinds of bullies. But nothing could have prepared him for the heartache he feels when he falls hopelessly in love with a...

Goat Days

Goat Days
  • Author(s): Koyippally Benyamin
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Najeeb’s dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats...

Goat In The Meze

Goat In The Meze
  • Author(s): Katerina Nikolas
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Present

A hapless American couple who are stranded in the bonkers backwater Greek village of Astakos are befuddled and bemused by the antics of the villagers who charm and outrage them with their quirky ways. The elusive underwear thief is...

Goatly Goings On

Goatly Goings On
  • Author(s): Katerina Nikolas
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Present

Quentin and Deirdre, eager to return to Greece and rid their Idaho home of unwanted Greek guests, are embarrassed by the antics of the two visiting old crones who get arrested at the airport on the way back. Over...

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