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Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
  • Author(s): Francesca Cavallo
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

What if the princess didn’t marry Prince Charming but instead went on to be an astronaut? What if the jealous step sisters were supportive and kind? And what if the queen was the one really in charge of the...

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World
  • Author(s): Elena Favilli
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, featuring 100 immigrant women who have shaped, and will continue to shape, our world. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women...

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic
  • Author(s): Rebel Girls
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, featuring 100 barrier-breaking Black women and girls who showcase the spirit of Black Girl Magic. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life...

Good Night, Commander

Good Night, Commander
  • Author(s): Ahmad Akbarpour
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980 onwards

The Commander has lost his mother and one of his legs in the Iran-Iraq war. Now he spends most of his time alone in his room where he recreates the conflict with an imaginary enemy and soldiers, trying to...

Good People

Good People
  • Author(s): Patmeena Sabit
  • Location(s): Northern Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED . . . The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They arrived in America as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work,...

Good Vibrations: A Story of a Single 60s Mum

Good Vibrations: A Story of a Single 60s Mum
  • Author(s): Margaret Halliday
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

Margaret Halliday’s second book, Good Vibrations: A Story of a Single 60s Mum, tells the poignant tale of her harrowing and often hilarious experience of unmarried motherhood in pre-Abortion Act Scotland. 17-year-old Margaret’s Glaswegian romance results in unplanned pregnancy...

Good Vibrations: Coast to Coast by Harley

Good Vibrations: Coast to Coast by Harley
  • Author(s): Tom Cunliffe
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

I’d been itching to ride a Harley-Davidson across America for years. Now it was the High Plains or bust. Inconveniently, my wife Roz had never even sat on a bike. I didn’t fancy a passenger for 12,000 miles, so...

Goodbye Buenos Aires

Goodbye Buenos Aires
  • Author(s): Andrew Graham-Yooll
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1930s

Goodbye Buenos Aires” is a vivid and earthly celebration of Argentina, which chronicles the rise and fall of the British colony in the ’20s and ’30s through the imaginative biography of one of its charismatic representatives – a hard-drinking,...

Goodbye Chinatown

Goodbye Chinatown
  • Author(s): Kit Fan
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As her native Hong Kong seethes, torn between two world powers, Amber Fan tries to build a career as a chef in London’s Chinatown. Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London’s Chinatown...

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