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Grace Takes Off

Grace Takes Off
  • Author(s): Julie Hyzy
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A trip to Italy’s Tuscan countryside is a dream come true for curator and manager of Marshfield Manor, Grace Wheaton. At least until her boss—and benefactor of this whirlwind excursion—becomes the target of a murderer… When Grace and her...

GraceLand

GraceLand
  • Author(s): Chris Abani
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

This novel is set in Maroko, a sprawling, swampy, crazy and colorful ghetto of Lagos, Nigeria, and unfolds against a backdrop of lush reggae and highlife music, American movies and a harsh urban existence. Elvis Oke, a teenage Elvis...

Gracie Fairshaw and the Missing Reel

Gracie Fairshaw and the Missing Reel
  • Author(s): Susan Brownrigg
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Lights, camera, action! A new movie being filmed in Blackpool is a real scoop for trainee reporter Gracie Fairshaw. When she’s invited to interview the star, Sally Sunshine, Gracie uncovers a plot as exciting as the one being filmed....

Gracie Fairshaw and the Mysterious Guest

Gracie Fairshaw and the Mysterious Guest
  • Author(s): Susan Brownrigg
  • Location(s): Blackpool
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Gracie Fairshaw and her family have barely moved into The Majestic, a Blackpool boarding house when Ma mysteriously vanishes. She teams up with her younger brother George, and befriends siblings Violet and Tom, and maid Phyllis. They must work...

Gracie Fairshaw and the Trouble at the Tower

Gracie Fairshaw and the Trouble at the Tower
  • Author(s): Susan Brownrigg
  • Location(s): Blackpool
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

The stage is set for a thrilling mystery! Gracie Fairshaw is delighted to get a sneak preview of the Children’s Ballet’s Christmas spectacular. But when the curtain rises, things go horribly wrong for the young dancers. Accidents, pranks and...

Graffiti

Graffiti
  • Author(s): Joanie Pariera
  • Location(s): India, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Graffiti’ Is a debut novel by East Indian author Joanie Pariera. Set in India and the USA, the novel explores the coming of age of young India at the advent of the global ‘flat world’ revolution. It questions the...

Granada: A Novel

Granada: A Novel
  • Author(s): Radwa Ashour
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Set in southern Spain before the expulsion of the Arabs and Jews. A blend of Granadan rule and Arabic mores blend into a powerful novel, exploring the loss of a conquered populace. The book binder Abu Jaafar and his...

Granada: The Light of Andalucía

Granada: The Light of Andalucía
  • Author(s): Steven Nightingale
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Yearning for a change, Steven Nightingale took his family to live in the ancient Andalucian city of Granada. But as he journeyed through its hidden courtyards, scented gardens and sun-warmed plazas, Steven discovered that Granada’s present cannot be separated...

Grand Adventures

Grand Adventures
  • Author(s): Alastair Humphreys
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): 2016

So what’s a GRAND ADVENTURE – it is the most life-changing, career-enhancing, personality-forging, fun adventure of your life. Following on from his popular Microadventures, in Grand Adventures Alastair Humphreys shines a spotlight on the real-life things that get in...

Grand Depart

Grand Depart
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

A cyclist disappears without trace and Mills Sanderson finds herself involved in another mystery. Are there a number of innocent coincidences as the cyclists of the University Cycling club suffer a series of accidents or is there a more...

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