- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in...
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Tale
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in...
The Girl with the Louding Voice
- Location(s): Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man,...
The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
- Location(s): Sunderland, Ryhope, Scarborough
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket, Ada Davidson, housekeeper of the wealthy McNally family’s home, the Uplands, takes her into her care. Sworn to secrecy about the...
The Girl, the Ghost and the Lost Name
- Location(s): Australia, World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
If my hair looks like bright green seaweed, it’s because that’s exactly what it is. My eyes, a pair of abalone shells, polished blue by sand. Teeth, two rows of pebbles. And my skin is made of wax. Corpse...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as “the girls.” They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their...
- Location(s): Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Four old friends. Thrown back together after forty years apart. What could possibly go wrong? In the 1970s, The Girls were best friends sharing a house and good times: Zara the famous diva actor, Val the uptight solicitor, Jackie...
- Location(s): Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, and consumed more electricity than New York City, yet it was shrouded in such secrecy that it did not appear on any map. Thousands...
- Location(s): Utah
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and instant USA Today bestseller The Unwedding, a novel of suspense and friendship about three friends who decide to disappear from their lives for a few days while on a trip...
- Location(s): San Juan Islands
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Their reunion just became a crime scene . . . June Moody, a thirty-something English professor, just wants to get away from her recent breakup and reunite with girlfriends over summer break. Her old friend and longtime nemesis, Sadie...
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