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Girl In Danger

Girl In Danger
  • Author(s): Leigh Russell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lucy Hall’s first summer in Paris promises to be idyllic. She’s fallen in love with the city and enjoys her new job as an investigative reporter. When her friend Nina comes to stay, the girls look forward to a...

Girl in Translation

Girl in Translation
  • Author(s): Jean Kwok
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

New York Times bestseller Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok is a powerful story about a Chinese immigrant family in Brooklyn. Kimberley Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them – making a new...

Girl Reading

Girl Reading
  • Author(s): Katie Ward
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, London, Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist’s servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A woman reading in...

Girls I Know

Girls I Know
  • Author(s): Douglas Trevor
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships : one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate...

Girls Who Travel

Girls Who Travel
  • Author(s): Nicole Trilivas
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Last year, Kika Shores was traveling across the globe without a care in the world. Now she’s stuck at home with her mom, pining for a sexy charmer who lives across the big pond. But then Kika lands a...

Girls’ Night Out

Girls’ Night Out
  • Author(s): Liz Fenton, Lisa Steinke
  • Location(s): Tulum
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For estranged friends Ashley, Natalie, and Lauren, it’s time to heal the old wounds between them. Where better to repair those severed ties than on a girls’ getaway to the beautiful paradise of Tulum, Mexico? But even after they’re...

Gladio: We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny

Gladio: We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny
  • Author(s): Steve Chambers
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Ireland, Italy, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

State sponsored murder, international covert surveillance and counter-terrorism. Ambitious young TV journalist John Bradley discovers the biggest story of his career. Putting his life and people close to him in danger, he embarks on a perilous journey into the...

Glass Houses

Glass Houses
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent, Armand Gamache knows something is seriously wrong, but all he can do...

Glasshopper

Glasshopper
  • Author(s): Isabel Ashdown
  • Location(s): Brighton, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

From the suburban disorder of 1980s southern England, 13-year-old Jake watches his world unravel as his father and older brother leave the family home and his mother increasingly finds solace in drink. Even as Jake outwardly shrugs off doubts...

Go Went Gone

Go Went Gone
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issueRichard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing...

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