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Gold Dust

Gold Dust
  • Author(s): Ibrahim Al-Koni
  • Location(s): Libya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1911

Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Libyan Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and...

Gold in the Streets

Gold in the Streets
  • Author(s): Mary Vardoulakis
  • Location(s): Crete, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): post-WWII

George Vardas is a young man growing up in Crete. He’s the head of his household and must work hard to earn enough money to secure dowries for both of his sisters. He later learns that many of his...

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh

Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh
  • Author(s): Slobodan Novak
  • Location(s): Rab
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Dispossessed of her vast property on the island of Rab by the Communist authorities of Yugoslavia, 100-year-old Madonna lies on her death bedfinicky, frail, and foul-smelling. Her nurse, Mali, thinks it a miracle that she lives at all. Although...

Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons

Golden Bats & Pink Pigeons
  • Author(s): Gerald Durrell
  • Location(s): Mauritius
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On this speck of volcanic soil in the middle of a vast sea, a complete, unique and peaceful world was created slowly and carefully. It waited there for hundreds of thousands of years for an annihilating invasion of voracious...

Golden Gate (City Spies)

Golden Gate (City Spies)
  • Author(s): James Ponti
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Bondi Beach, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this second installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies returns for another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for...

Golden Healer (The Curse of Time Book 2)

Golden Healer (The Curse of Time Book 2)
  • Author(s): M J Mallon
  • Location(s): Cambridge
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern Day

I didn’t think my life could get any weirder, until the dreaded rollercoaster… Amelina Scott’s destiny is to be a Krystallos: a magician of light, chosen to learn the ways of crystal magic on her 16th birthday. Located on...

Golden Hill

Golden Hill
  • Author(s): Francis Spufford
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1740s

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable,...

Golden Shower or What Men Want

Golden Shower or What Men Want
  • Author(s): Luka Novak
  • Location(s): Slovenia, World
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The first novel by renowned Slovene publisher, politician, and TV personality Luka Novak is an intellectual farce, a surrealistic gallop through philosophy and art. With echoes of Thomas Pynchon and Woody Allen (with Hegel chanting in the background), we...

GoldenEars: The Whispering Mountain

GoldenEars: The Whispering Mountain
  • Author(s): Jane H Wood
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Children
  • Era(s): 1970s

Mira lay deep inside her den, nuzzling her newborn pups. As the weeks pass, the unusual appearance of two of her offspring grows more pronounced and with that, the pack’s behaviour changes. A strangeness hangs in the air, compounding...

Gone Crazy in Alabama

Gone Crazy in Alabama
  • Author(s): Rita Williams-Garcia
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1960s

Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles’s half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven’t spoken in years. As Delphine...

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