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Goats from a Small Island

Goats from a Small Island
  • Author(s): Anna Nicholas
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

In her former life, Anna Nicholas was in PR. She heads off form London to a more remote life on Mallorca with her family. She gets close to opening her dream of opening a cattery, her toad is kidnapped,...

God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir

God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
  • Author(s): John Bul Dau
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This unforgettable book is the first-person account of a miracle–indeed, a whole series of miracles. A tale of suffering, tragedy, and sorrow redeemed by indomitable resolve and a stubborn refusal to despair, it’s set in a Sudan shadowed by...

God In Pink

God In Pink
  • Author(s): Hasan Namir
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 2003

In war-torn Iraq in 2003, a young gay Muslim struggles to find a balance between his sexuality, religion and culture. Hasan Namir’s GOD IN PINK is a revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in...

God Save Texas

God Save Texas
  • Author(s): Lawrence Wright
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. Texas is a Republican state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn’t elected a Democrat to a...

God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation

God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation
  • Author(s): Joseph Sebarenzi
  • Location(s): Rwanda
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

A harrowing tale of survival and reconciliation by a Rwandan Tutsi who flees his homeland before the 1994 genocide and later returns to be elected speaker of the Rwandan parliament, only to be forced into exile once again This...

God’s Children Are Little Broken Things

God’s Children Are Little Broken Things
  • Author(s): Arinze Ifeakandu
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria’s most promising young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn’t...

Goddess: 50 Goddesses, Spirits, Saints and Other Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief

Goddess: 50 Goddesses, Spirits, Saints and Other Female Figures Who Have Shaped Belief
  • Author(s): Janina Ramirez, Sarah Walsh (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Tales of powerful female figures have been told since the beginning of time and this collection brings together 50 stories from around the world. There are loving creators, wise leaders, fearsome warriors, gentle healers and mystical protectors, and they...

Godpretty in the Tobacco Field

Godpretty in the Tobacco Field
  • Author(s): Kim Michele Richardson
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s

Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact just  like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is...

Gods and Monsters: Mythological Poems

Gods and Monsters: Mythological Poems
  • Author(s): Ana Sampson (editor), Chris Riddell (illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Ancient times

This beautiful illustrated poetry anthology gathers poems about myths from writers from the ancient world to the present day, retelling ancient stories from all around the world.

Gods in Alabama

Gods in Alabama
  • Author(s): Joshilyn Jackson
  • Location(s): Alabama, Illinois
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Lena Fleet goes to college, she makes three promises to God: she will stop fornicating with every boy she meets; never tell another lie and never, ever go back to her hometown of Possett, Alabama. All she wants...

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