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The Glass Castle

The Glass Castle
  • Author(s): Jeannette Walls
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist’s journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her...

The Glass House

The Glass House
  • Author(s): Jody Cooksley
  • Location(s): India, England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

What is a life without Art and Beauty? Not one that Julia chooses to live. And so she searches the world for both, discovering happiness through the lens of a camera. A fictional account of pioneer photographer, Julia Margaret...

The Glass Kingdom

The Glass Kingdom
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at the Kingdom, a glittering high-end complex slowly sinking into its own twilight...

The Gods of Heavenly Punishment

The Gods of Heavenly Punishment
  • Author(s): Jennifer Cody Epstein
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s -1960s

In this evocative and thrilling epic novel, fifteen-year-old Yoshi Kobayashi, child of Japan’s New Empire, daughter of an ardent expansionist and a mother with a haunting past, is on her way home on a March night when American bombers...

The Gondola Maker

The Gondola Maker
  • Author(s): Laura Morelli
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

2014 IPPY Award for Best Adult Fiction E-book Finalist for the da Vinci Eye Prize From the author of Made in Italy comes a tale of artisanal tradition and family bonds set in one of the world’s most magnificent...

The Good Cop

The Good Cop
  • Author(s): Peter Steiner
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Between WWI and WWII

In a world of growing nationalism, a quiet few are determined to resist. This gripping historical mystery explores the darkest days of the early 20th century. Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the...

The Good Dream

The Good Dream
  • Author(s): Donna VanLiere
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1950 Tennessee, a time and place that straddles the past and present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town (though she’s only in her early thirties) and she takes that label with good humour and a...

The Good Left Undone

The Good Left Undone
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Viareggio, Marseilles (Marseille), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Domenica Cabrelli had two great loves of her life. The first, her childhood sweetheart: a boy from the same small, sun-drenched Italian town of Viareggio. A romance born out of yearning and shared history; over before it really had...

The Good Mother

The Good Mother
  • Author(s): Sinead Moriarty
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Kate has been through the fire with her three children … Having been left devastated and homeless after her husband’s affair and the break-up of their family, somehow she has pulled through. Though times are still tough, she’s beginning...

The Gospel According to the New World

The Gospel According to the New World
  • Author(s): Maryse Condé
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: ‘A miracle!’ Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with grey-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of...

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