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The Goddess of Warsaw

The Goddess of Warsaw
  • Author(s): Lisa Barr
  • Location(s): Warsaw, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s / 2000s

Los Angeles, 2005. Sienna Hayes, Hollywood’s latest It Girl, has ambitions to work behind the camera. When she meets Lena Browning, the enormously mysterious and famous Golden Age movie star, Sienna sees her big break. She wants to direct...

The Godmother

The Godmother
  • Author(s): Hannelore Cayre, Stephanie Smee (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux – 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen… and soon to become The Godmother. For 25 years she has...

The Gods of Gotham

The Gods of Gotham
  • Author(s): Lyndsay Faye
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1845

1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever… Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his...

The Golden Boat

The Golden Boat
  • Location(s): Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): post WW1

There are very few major European poets of the early twentieth century not already known to English-language audiences, but Srecko Kosovel is one. Often called the Slovene Rimbaud (he died at twenty-two, leaving almost 1,000 poems), the full range...

The Golden Boy

The Golden Boy
  • Author(s): Patricia Finn
  • Location(s): Maui, Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After an involuntary retirement from his high-flying Hollywood career, Stafford Hopkins has retreated to a luxury estate on Maui, along with his wife Agnes, both grimly resigned to life in a paradise where neither feels fully at home. Stafford...

The Golden Bull

The Golden Bull
  • Author(s): Marjorie Cowley
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 3000 BC

5,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia during a terrible drought, Jomar and Zefa’s father must send his children away to the city of Ur because he can no longer feed them. At fourteen, Jomar is old enough to apprentice...

The Golden Cage

The Golden Cage
  • Author(s): Anna Castagnoli, Carll Cneut (Illustrator), Laura Watkinson (Translator)
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Valentina the emperor’s daughter is an obsessive collector of exotic birds. Her servants track down every bird she desires – just one remains unfound: a bird that talks. Servants search far and wide to fulfill her impossible quest –...

The Golden Catch

The Golden Catch
  • Author(s): Roger Weston
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Frank Murdoch lives on a remote private island in Alaska, drawn there by its peace and isolation. There he finds a secret, unearthed from a cave sealed for seven decades. His historical research attracts Abby Sinclair, a lovely archaeologist....

The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): Nassau
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Lulu Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine whose readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous...

The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour
  • Author(s): Kate Lord Brown
  • Location(s): Beirut, Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1939 / 1970s

From Cairo 1939 on the eve of the war and then thirty years later to 1970s Beirut on the eve of yet another conflict, The Golden Hour is an epic dual timeline story which interweaves glory-seeking desert archaeologists, priceless...

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