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The Girls Weekend

The Girls Weekend
  • Author(s): Jody Gehrman
  • 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...

The Girls With The Pale Blue Eyes

The Girls With The Pale Blue Eyes
  • Author(s): Kam Majd
  • Location(s): Afghanistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

Set during the chaotic weeks before the American withdrawal in 2021 from Afghanistan, the novel follows 24-year-old Jessie Niles who flies to Kabul to try to find her missing war correspondent mother. What begins as a desperate rescue mission...

The Girls, Alone: Six Days in Estonia

The Girls, Alone: Six Days in Estonia
  • Author(s): Bonnie J Rough
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): contemporary

A resurfacing writer hits the sauna, bares it all, and learns the true meaning of saga. In her latest work, award-winning author Bonnie J. Rough separates from her family for a surprising journey into the difficult past and precarious...

The Glacier Murders

The Glacier Murders
  • Location(s): El Chaltėn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The body of a tourist turns up frozen in Patagonia’s largest glacier, killed by a gunshot to the belly thirty years ago. Of course, you have no idea that this will change your life. You’ve lived all of it...

The Glass Class

The Glass Class
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Athens, Calderdale, Snowdonia, Spetses
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1970s

Close friends gather at the graveside of the most favoured of this group of privileged young people. Readers discover than Rosalind who has been jilted in favour of her cousin Lucinda, now the widow must suffer the indignity of...

The Glass Hotel

The Glass Hotel
  • Author(s): Emily St. John Mandel
  • Location(s): Vancouver Island, Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the...

The Glass Woman

The Glass Woman
  • Author(s): Caroline Lea
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1680s

1686, Iceland. An isolated, windswept land haunted by witch trials and steeped in the ancient sagas . . . Betrothed unexpectedly to Jón Eiríksson, Rósa is sent to join her new husband in the remote village of Stykkishólmur. Here,...

The Glassmaker’s Daughter

The Glassmaker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Dianne Hofmeyr, Jane Ray (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 16th century

Daniela the glassmaker’s daughter is grumpy and never smiles. Her father promises a beautiful glass palace to anyone who can make her laugh. People come from far and wide to try their luck in amusing Daniela. But mask makers,...

The Glorious Heresies

The Glorious Heresies
  • Author(s): Lisa McInerney
  • Location(s): Cork City
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS’ WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 We all do stupid things when we’re kids. Ryan Cusack’s grown up faster than most – being the oldest of six with a...

The Glovemaker

The Glovemaker
  • Author(s): Ann Weisgarber
  • Location(s): Utah
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

“…marvelous… a rich, powerful, and wholly immersive tale…” —Publishers Weekly, starred review 1888 Utah Territory Deborah doesn’t expect a knock on her door in the middle of a harsh winter evening. During good weather, sometimes Mormon men fleeing the...

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