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Gadsby's Girls; Lucia's Lover; The Mishaps Of Minerva; The Mother Of Santa Claus; The Village Postmistress; The Voice Of Authority (1909)

by Bertha Currier Porter

Published: 2009-10-15

Paperback: 268 pages

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to...

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Gai-Jin

by James Clavell

Published: 2009-05-19

Paperback: 1092 pages

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The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House?the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age?a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire?Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly o...

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Galapagos (Delta Fiction)

by Kurt Vonnegut

Published: 1999-01-12

Paperback: 336 pages

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Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally diffe...

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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

by Dava Sobel

Published: 2000-11-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial and persecution. Winner of the Christopher Award...

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Gallows Curse

by Karen Maitland

Published: 2012-03

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1210 and a black force is sweeping England. For a vengeful King John has seized control of the Church, leaving corpses to lie in unconsecrated ground, babies unbaptized in their cradles and the people terrified of dying in sin. And in the village of Gastmere, the consequences grow darker still when Elena,...

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Galore

by Michael Crummey

Published: 2011-03-29

Paperback: 352 pages

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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, Caribbean & Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset AwardWhen a whale beaches itse...

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Galveston: A Novel

by Nic Pizzolatto

Published: 2011-06-14

Paperback: 272 pages

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From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series True Detective, comes a dark and visceral literary debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston.On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharki...

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Galway Bay

by Mary Pat Kelly

Published: 2009-01-22

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Here at last is one Irish family's epic journey, capturing the tragedy and triumph of the Irish-American experience. In a rousing tale that echoes the myths and legends of Ireland herself, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family, inhabiting a hidden Ireland where fishe...

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The Gambler (Modern Library Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Published: 2003-04-08

Paperback: 240 pages

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In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless down...

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Game Change CD: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Published: 2010-03-01

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