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Gabriel's Story Written by David Anthony Durham Gabriel Lynch is fifteen when his mother, after the death of her husband, decides to move the family from a comfortable brownstone in Baltimore to a sod hut on the plains of Kansas. Here she is reunited with Solomon, a man... Read More The Game of Kings Written by Dorothy Dunnett In 1547 Lymond returns to his native Scotland, which is threatened by an English invasion and by the bloody rivalries of its nobles. Accused of treason, hunted by friend and enemy alike, he leads a company of outlaws in a desperate... Read More The Gargoyle Written by Andrew Davidson An international sensation published in twenty-seven languages, The Gargoyle is the mesmerizing story of one man's descent into a personal hell and his quest for salvation. On a dark road in the middle of the night, a car plunges into a ravine... Read More Geek Love Written by Katherine Dunn Like many of the best American novels of the past fifty years, Geek Love tells the story of a family. But this image of family is misshapen and bizarre, a reflection cast back at us from the distorting surface of a... Read More Gemini Written by Dorothy Dunnett The final volume in the spectacular House of Niccol?. Scotland, 1477. As Nicholas de Fleury and his clever wife Gelis move between the countries where his bank has made its mark (Burgundy, Flanders, Germany, France, and England), he finally unlocks the... Read More The Gifts of the Jews Written by Thomas Cahill The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading of the second book in Thomas Cahill's The Hinges of History series, The Gifts of the Jews. In The Gifts of the Jews, Thomas Cahill... Read More The Girl at the Lion d'Or Written by Sebastian Faulks In The Girl at the Lion d'Or we witness the compromise and unease of France in the years leading up to the Second World War through the eyes of Anne Louvet, a courageous and passionate young girl. When Anne was still... Read More The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Written by Stieg Larsson This spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue was a sensation across Europe, with millions of copies sold. It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger—a young scion of one of the wealthiest families... Read More Girl, Interrupted Written by Susanna Kaysen As she recounts her two-year sojourn in a Boston psychiatric hospital and her experience of what she calls the "parallel universe" of madness, Kaysen compels readers to consider how thin the line is that separates "madness" from "sanity," deviance from normalcy... Read More Gob's Grief Written by Chris Adrian George Washington--"Gob"--Woodhull and Thomas Jefferson--"Tomo"--Woodhull, are the twin sons of the real historical figure Victoria Woodhull, the nineteenth-century feminist and spiritualist. At age eleven, Tomo runs away from his family home in Homer, Ohio, to join the Union soldiers, but gripped... Read More God: A Biography Written by Jack Miles Although Miles is a former Jesuit and has a formidable background in philosophy, archaeology, and Near Eastern languages, the purpose of his inquiry is not theological but literary. Using the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, as his text, Miles sets out to... Read More Good Faith Written by Jane Smiley Joe Stratford is a good and trustworthy guy who makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. He’s recently divorced, not yet forty-years-old, and pretty happy with his life. Felicity Ornquist, the married daughter of his business... Read More The Good Husband of Zebra Drive Written by Alexander Mccall Smith All is not going well for Mma Ramotswe at the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, nor for her husband Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, since the smooth running of their offices has been disrupted by restless assistants. Grace... Read More The Good People of New York Written by Thisbe Nissen It’s love with an edge in this sharp tale of would-be urban sophisticates who embark on a mismatched marriage and have a daughter. As the story unfolds, Nissen depicts the relationships and conversations of the well-meaning but slightly neurotic inhabitants of... Read More The Good Women of China Written by Xinran Goodnight, Nebraska Written by Tom McNeal When seventeen-year-old Randall Hunsacker arrives in the Great Plains town of Goodnight, Nebraska, pop. 1680, it is with the knowledge that here he has a second chance. Here he can escape violent events back home in Salt Lake City—a shooting, a... Read More The Great Man Written by Kate Christensen Oscar Feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. As his obituary notes, Oscar is survived by his wife, Abigail, their son, Ethan, and his sister, the well-known abstract painter Maxine Feldman. What the obituary does not note, however, is that... Read More The Great Transformation Written by Karen Armstrong In the period from the ninth century to the second century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism... Read More [ Back to top ] |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."
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