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Goodbye Orchid

Goodbye Orchid
  • Author(s): Carol Van Den Hende
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One of the most anticipated fall reads: Buzzfeed l Parade l Travel+Leisure. Winner: 2020 American Fiction Award l Pinnacle Achievement Award. “Page-turner” “Breath of awe” “Tugs on your soul” Can love blossom after life changes in an instant? One...

Goodbye to a River

Goodbye to a River
  • Author(s): John Graves
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also...

Goodbye to Budapest

Goodbye to Budapest
  • Author(s): Margarita Morris
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

Budapest, 1952. When Katalin and her father, Márton, are woken by the ringing of the doorbell in the dead of night, it can mean only one thing. The Secret Police have come to arrest him on charges of subversion....

Goodbye to Poplarhaven

Goodbye to Poplarhaven
  • Author(s): Edward A Geary
  • Location(s): Utah
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“`Nothing is nicer,’ Grandpa used to say, `than a full barn and a full granary.’ He might have said a full cellar too, for the rows of bottled fruit loomed on the shelves in the dim light, and the...

Goodbye to Poplarhaven: Recollections of a Utah Boyhood

Goodbye to Poplarhaven: Recollections of a Utah Boyhood
  • Author(s): Edward A Geary
  • Location(s): Utah
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s and 1950s

`Nothing is nicer,’ Grandpa used to say, `than a full barn and a full granary.’ He might have said a full cellar too, for the rows of bottled fruit loomed on the shelves in the dim light, and the...

Goodbye, Columbus

Goodbye, Columbus
  • Author(s): Philip Roth
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin, he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills, who meet one summer and fall into an affair that is as much about social class and...

Goodbye, Henrietta Street

Goodbye, Henrietta Street
  • Author(s): Lin Treadgold
  • Location(s): Isles of Scilly, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Pippa Lambton’s life has fallen apart and husband Rob is ready to give up their marriage. Three years before, their son Daniel passed away: he was the glue that held them together. Now, Pippa’s left home for the beautiful...

Goodness, Grace and Me

Goodness, Grace and Me
  • Author(s): Julie Houston
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): contemporary

Goodness Grace and Me An hilarious, laugh out loud Romantic Comedy When Harriet’s husband, Nick, throws in his safe, but boring job in order to set up a new business during the current recession, Harriet is distraught. More so...

Goodnight Ganesha

Goodnight Ganesha
  • Author(s): Nadia Salomon, Poonam Mistry (illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A gorgeously illustrated goodnight story that celebrates the nighttime rituals of two young children visiting their grandparents in India. As nighttime falls over the city, two children visiting their grandparents in India find there’s so much fun to be...

Goodnight June

Goodnight June
  • Author(s): Sarah Jio
  • Location(s): Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Acclaimed writer June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. When she is unexpectedly called to settle her great-aunt Ruby’s estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, June doesn’t have a choice and...

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